Komal Vardhan Lolugu
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* 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.
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