# microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent

Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/azure-pipelines-agent
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-25T10:01:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3835, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 44, "gap_med": 20, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1911, forks 930 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.258096+00:00)

## What it is
The official cross-platform build and release agent for Azure Pipelines and Team Foundation Server 2015+, written in C# for .NET. It runs CI/CD jobs on self-hosted machines across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

## Use cases
- run azure pipelines jobs on my own server
- self-hosted build agent for azure devops
- set up a ci runner on linux for tfs
- execute release pipelines on-premises
- cross-platform ci agent for windows mac and linux
- connect on-prem machine to azure pipelines

## When to choose
- you need self-hosted agents for Azure Pipelines or TFS/Azure DevOps Server
- your builds require specific hardware, OS versions, or network access not available in Microsoft-hosted agents
- you want an officially supported, actively maintained agent

## When to avoid
- you use GitHub Actions or another CI system instead of Azure DevOps
- Microsoft-hosted agents meet your needs and you don't want to manage infrastructure
- you need a general-purpose CI runner unrelated to Azure DevOps

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ci-cd, deployment, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing
- platform: windows, cross-platform, dotnet
- tags: azure-devops, azure-pipelines, build-agent, release-agent, tfs, microsoft, devops, automation, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.258096+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:10:47.646382+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.258096+00:00, sha e3599504dc55)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.