# microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks

Tasks for Azure Pipelines

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/azure-pipelines-tasks
Homepage: https://aka.ms/tfbuild
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:36:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 97, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4288, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 20, "gap_med": 21.0, "n_releases_24m": 33}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3652, forks 2687 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:13.085173+00:00)

## What it is
The official repository of built-in tasks for Azure Pipelines and Team Foundation Server, written in TypeScript. It provides open-source examples of how pipeline tasks are written so developers can author and upload their own custom tasks.

## Use cases
- write a custom task for azure pipelines
- understand how built-in azure devops build tasks work
- extend my ci/cd pipeline with custom tool runners
- package a build task inside an azure devops extension
- find deprecated azure pipelines tasks
- contribute improvements to azure devops pipeline tasks

## When to choose
- you are developing custom tasks for Azure Pipelines or TFS
- you want reference implementations of pipeline task authoring in TypeScript
- you need to package tasks into an Azure DevOps extension

## When to avoid
- you just need to run scripts in a pipeline - use the built-in Bash or PowerShell tasks instead
- you use GitHub Actions or another CI system rather than Azure DevOps
- you only want to configure pipelines with existing tasks without writing code

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ci-cd, deployment, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, cloud
- tags: azure-devops, azure-pipelines, build-tasks, typescript, microsoft, task-library, devops, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.085173+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 2026-08-29T18:31:40.812080+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:13.085173+00:00, sha b832f2a67520)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.