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Breaking Down Work

Azent can break a large work item into smaller, implementable child tasks. This is useful for epics or complex features that should be tackled incrementally.

How to trigger

Go to a work item and add a comment:

@Azent break this down into smaller tasks

What the agent does

  1. Reads the work item title, description, and acceptance criteria
  2. Analyzes the codebase to understand what changes are needed
  3. Creates child work items via the Azure DevOps MCP, each with a clear scope and description
  4. Posts a summary comment listing the created tasks

Tips

  • •Provide clear scope in the parent work item so the breakdown is meaningful
  • •After the breakdown, you can trigger Azent on each child task individually to implement them
  • •You can guide the granularity: "break this into 3-4 tasks" or "keep each task under 2 hours of work"