Azure DevOps variable group

Export secrets into one Azure DevOps variable group.

Connection

What	This provider
Vendor	Azure DevOps
Key	`azure-devops-variable-group`
Availability	`available`. You can connect it today.
Credential we hold	`azure-devops-pat`
Values read back	no
Activation	`immediate`

Direction	What it does
`export`	We write names and values from your environment into the store.

Azure DevOps returns no value once it holds one, so we can write here and cannot read back.

immediate. The running app sees a new value at once.

Direction	Policies you can pick
`export`	`create_only`, `overwrite`, `overwrite_and_prune`

How syncs work says what each one does.

Paste a credential from the vendor. We seal it and never show it again.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	What it is
`token`	Personal access token	secret; we mask it here and seal it	yes	Give it Variable Groups → Read, create, & manage. PATs lapse on their own: an admin can cap their lifetime, an Entra-backed organization deactivates one unused for 90 days, and a removed user's token dies within the hour.

You set these when you connect. Every mapping on the connection shares them.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`organization`	Organization	text	yes	no	The first path segment of your dev.azure.com URL.
`project`	Project	text	yes	no	The project whose library holds the variable group.

You answer these once per environment you map.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`groupId`	Variable group	text	yes	no	The variableGroupId at the end of the group's URL under Pipelines → Library.

We probe for these when we verify the connection.

Permission	Directions	Blocking	Without it
`vso.variablegroups_read`	every direction	yes	Export cannot read the group it has to write back whole.
`vso.variablegroups_manage`	`export`	yes	Export cannot write anything.