Add a tool to get Images out of a Comment Thread or Work Item Description

[DennisFranzmannGOB]

Summary

add x new tools to get attached images out of a work item description or a comment thread.

Tools

Develop the following tools with full parameter support, including optional ones:

get_attachment_for_work_item: Gets the attachment of a work item with id in specified project.

get_attachment_of_comment: Gets the attachment of a comment thread with.

Endpoint: unknown

Rules

1. Adhere strictly to existing project standards and coding conventions.
2. Ensure each tool exposes all API parameters (required and optional).
3. Use the official Azure DevOps Node API to interact with the APIs.

Example Usage

As an example if you want to get the context of a bug or a pbi into a coding agent eg copilot you can use the already existing tool 'wit_get_work_item'. But this only reads in the textual context. if a bug eg contains some description and an image referencing the producing code place, the coding agent is not aware of this.

If there is an already existing way to handle this, please let me know.

[danhellem]

Feel free to create draft PR on how you would propose this to work. Also provide some example screen shots of prompts to make sure it has been tested and works.

[DennisFranzmannGOB]

I think im unable to do so, thats why i created this issue..

But since you seem to be responsible for this, you can surely tell me whether there is a workaround for this or whether it simply has not been implemented? Perhaps I overlooked the right tool among the multitude of tools available.

[ashahabov]

As I mentioned in my duplicate issue, I've also not found a workaround.

[DennisFranzmannGOB]

There are other issues that wanted to retrieve the attachments from a work item. These were tagged with "security risk" but left without an explanation why
eg. #611 or #392
So in total we got a bunch of issues that requests attachment support at least for work items and all got closed with security concerns or the phrase that its not going to happen in short terms.

I think it would enrich the MCP and lead to further automation in many areas, which is ultimately the purpose of this MCP.
With attachment support a develeoper could depict the whole (standard) development process within eg vs code / copilot just through this mcp :
Assign a Work item of the current iteration - Get the Work item into agent context (Attachment support needed) - Develop - create a pull request - download pipeline logs if needed

[danhellem]

I don't think this is possible with the current REST API's we have available for the MCP Server. Thus the reason I am asking for other suggestions in case I am missing something.

I will take a look again and double check. But I believe I tried to implement getting attachments and did not find a good way for the MCP Server to have it work with tools like Copilot