fix(azure-devops): list pull requests with token sign-in and check out into worktrees

[maria-rcks]

Azure DevOps users reported two failures: the Pull Requests page shows no Azure results, and checking a pull request out into a new worktree thread never works. Pull requests linked to threads still load.

• Empty list. The page asks az account show who is signed in before it lists anything. That only knows az login accounts, so a CLI signed in with az devops login (a personal access token) fails there, and the page reports the host unreadable without ever running az repos pr list. Linked rows skip that lookup, which is why they still showed. The viewer now falls back to az repos pr list --creator me --top 1: the extension resolves me for the token itself, and the viewer's own pull request names their login. Someone who has opened none in that repository still gets the host-unreadable state, now with "Run az login" as the reason, because a literal me would match no row and empty the Reviewing and Authored views.
• Worktree checkout. Preparing the worktree fetched refs/pull/<n>/head, which Azure DevOps does not publish (it only has refs/pull/<n>/merge), so both fetch attempts failed. When that ref is missing and an open pull request's head is in the same repository, the head branch is now fetched from the primary remote by name, but only when the pull request's URL names that remote's repository: Azure finds a pull request by number anywhere in the organization. GitHub is unchanged because its ref fetch succeeds first. Azure fork pull requests are now marked cross-repository from forkSource, so they never take this fallback onto a same-named branch.

Verification

Reproduced end to end in the web app against a fake Azure DevOps host: a bare repo behind an ssh.dev.azure.com remote that only has refs/pull/42/merge, plus a stub az that returns the JSON real az prints. The output shapes were captured from azure-cli 2.91 with azure-devops 1.0.8. The stub runs in token-only mode, where az account show exits 1 with Please run 'az login'.

Before: the list fails with "Azure DevOps CLI command failed" (the row shown is the client's cache), and worktree checkout fails with "Repository-head and pull-request-ref fetches both failed".

https://uploads-production-47e4.up.railway.app/files/71faaadc-e105-4030-b32a-7f3e6fa59688/azure-checkout-before.mp4

After: the list loads with #42 under Authored, and the checkout creates a worktree on the head commit that tracks origin/feature/azure-checkout, with a thread open on it.

https://uploads-production-47e4.up.railway.app/files/d08a62b2-0cb2-4d86-9235-898972bc91b5/azure-checkout-after.mp4

Not verified against a real Azure DevOps organization or token. The me resolution is the extension's own code path, which I read but did not run against a live account. Settings > Source Control still runs az account show as its auth probe, so it can show a token-only CLI as signed out.

Implemented by Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code, running in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes Azure DevOps authentication/identity handling and the shared worktree checkout path, including a new fallback that fetches branches from the primary remote. Although the scope is focused and tested, authentication-sensitive runtime changes require human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

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Walkthrough

Git worktree preparation can fetch a matching same-repository head branch when pull-request-ref fetching fails. Azure DevOps pull request records now expose cross-repository status. Viewer lookup can use the author of a pull request created by the signed-in user when account lookup fails.

Changes

Git worktree preparation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cross-repository status propagation packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/azureDevOpsPullRequests.ts, packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.ts, packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsCli.test.ts, packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.test.ts	Pull request normalization sets isCrossRepository based on whether forkSource is non-null. Change-request conversion copies the value from the summary. Tests cover fork and non-fork pull requests.
Head branch fallback apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts	If pull-request-ref fetching fails and head-repository metadata is unavailable, GitManager fetches the named head branch only for an open, same-repository pull request whose URL matches the primary remote. Tests cover matching and rejected requests.

Azure DevOps viewer lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pull request viewer fallback packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsPullRequestCli.ts, packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsPullRequestCli.test.ts	When account lookup fails with an error other than AzureDevOpsCliUnavailableError, getViewer lists at most one pull request created by me and returns its author login. It raises AzureDevOpsViewerUnavailableError if the result has no usable login. Tests cover successful lookup, no pull requests, and a repeated authentication failure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to daadb

The pull-request listing and worktree changes are mergeable after normal checks; no actionable risk remains established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 829da

Repository matching and fork detection restrict the new checkout fallback. No concrete new authorization bypass was established, but identity-response guarantees and downstream checkout recovery remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The newly reachable checkout path updates remote-tracking and local branch refs in the selected checkout and creates a worktree. It then follows existing submodule initialization and, when a thread ID is supplied, project setup-runner behavior. Exposure therefore includes local Git state and downstream checkout execution, not only pull-request display data.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Pull-request metadata does not independently authorize the new branch-name fetch: the primary remote's normalized repository key must match the pull-request URL's key, and explicitly cross-repository requests are excluded. Rejected fallback attempts retain the existing exact pull-request-ref retry rather than fetching a same-named primary-remote branch.
• inferred — The creator-me selector places viewer recovery behind the existing CLI credential boundary. The main unresolved identity assumption is the authenticity and completeness of Azure's returned creator fields, not a demonstrated ability for ordinary pull-request content to grant another account's privileges.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Successful viewer lookup is reused per host across workspaces, while failed lookup remains retryable. This existing ownership scope now also holds identities recovered through repository-specific token requests; behavior across distinct organization credentials was not established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider a dedicated viewer-identity decoder that requires an authoritative uniqueName instead of inheriting the displayName fallback intended for displaying pull-request actors.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check		The title clearly summarizes both primary changes: token-based Azure DevOps pull request listing and worktree checkout support.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts:
- Around line 991-995: Update the named-branch fetch using
gitCore.fetchRemoteBranch to verify that a non-open PR’s fetched commit matches
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