A headless agent works his ticket queue: compares code to tickets, replies on its own

Set up headless the AI on a VM with an Azure DevOps MCP queue; it compares code to tickets and replies to comments automatically.

How it works

He sets up a headless agent on a VM with a ticket-queue connector
It compares code to tickets and replies to comments automatically

Why it’s worth knowing

Headless is the point: no screen, no drama, tickets answered.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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