* azure-devops-cli: handle long comments on Windows (#2061)
On Windows 'az' is a cmd.exe batch wrapper capped at ~8191 characters,
so a long --discussion / --description value silently truncates or
fails. Document three verified ways out so the coding agent doesn't
waste 3-5 turns falling back to raw token retrieval and REST:
1. azps.ps1 in PowerShell on Windows. Same Azure CLI, invoked through
the Python entry point with no cmd.exe length cap. Pair with
'Get-Content -Raw' so the body lives in a variable, not on the
command line.
2. Native --file-path flags where Azure CLI offers them. Applies to
'az devops wiki page create' and 'az devops wiki page update', both
documented with --encoding.
3. 'az devops invoke --in-file' as the universal escape hatch for
commands with no --file-path (work-item --discussion, PR
--description). Documented example posts to the work item
comments REST endpoint with api-version 7.0-preview.3.
The earlier draft suggested the Azure CLI '@<file>' convention as a
generic substitute for inline string args. The official docs only
document it for JSON parameters and the CLI source uses
'get_file_json' specifically, so the claim is removed and replaced
with an explicit warning not to rely on it for plain string args.
Files touched:
- skills/azure-devops-cli/SKILL.md: new 'Posting long comments on
Windows' section with shell-detection table and three verified
options.
- skills/azure-devops-cli/references/boards-and-iterations.md: short
pointer at each --discussion example back to SKILL.md, plus an
inline PowerShell snippet.
Closes#2061.
* azure-devops-cli: move long-comments guidance to reference file (#2061 review)
aaronpowell asked for the Windows long-comments section to live as a
reference file rather than inline in SKILL.md, so the token weight
isn't always loaded into the agent's context.
- Move the "Posting long comments on Windows" section to a new
references/long-comments-on-windows.md verbatim.
- Strip the section from SKILL.md (56 fewer lines in the always-loaded
surface).
- Add the new file to the Reference Files table in SKILL.md with a
one-line "when to read" hint covering --discussion, --description,
and --content failures on Windows.
- Update the two pointer comments in references/boards-and-iterations.md
to point at the new reference file instead of the SKILL.md section.
docs/README.skills.md regenerated by 'npm run build' to pick up the
new reference file in the skill's bundled assets column.
Komal Vardhan Lolugu
fondoger
Aung Myo Kyaw