Triggering the Agent

There are two ways to trigger Azent: by @mentioning the bot user in a comment, or by clicking a button in the Azure DevOps extension.

@Mention in comments

Add a comment that @mentions the Azent bot user in:

• •Work item comments — to implement features, fix bugs, break down work, or ask questions
• •Pull request comments — to review the PR, fix review comments, or answer questions about the code

The text after the @mention is your instruction to the agent. Be as specific or as general as you like:

What it looks like end-to-end

Here is a complete trigger on a work item, captured top-to-bottom (Azure DevOps lists comments newest first, so the timeline reads from the bottom of the discussion upward):

1. You @mention the bot. The text after the mention is the instruction. Anything in the work item description — acceptance criteria, repro steps, linked code — is part of the context the agent sees.
2. The agent posts a status comment and keeps editing it as the run progresses: enqueued, started processing, queue time, total processing time. This is the same comment throughout the run, so the thread does not get spammy.
3. When the run finishes, the agent posts a separate reply summarising what it did — the change, the diff highlights, the validation result, and a link to the pull request it opened.

Extension trigger buttons

If you have the Azure DevOps Extension installed, you can trigger the agent with a single click:

• •"Implement with Azent" — on the work item toolbar
• •"Review with Azent" — on the PR action menu
• •"Fix comments with Azent" — on the PR action menu

Who can trigger

Only users who are members of the allowed Azure DevOps group can trigger the agent. The default group is Contributors. You can change this in the Agent Setup.

Comments from users outside the allowed group are silently ignored — no error is posted, and no agent hours are consumed.