tfs: Azure DevOps Server in the terminal

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:10:00 +0200

On-premises Azure DevOps Server, the product formerly known as TFS, is painful to use in a browser. Every page is slow to load, and the small things I do all day take far too many clicks: checking what’s waiting for my review, moving a work item to Active, creating a branch for it, finding out why a build failed. So I built tfs, a terminal client for it.

Running tfs on its own opens a home screen of what’s waiting for you: pull requests to review, release approvals, and how your own pull requests, builds and work items are doing. The rest is a command away:

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tfs: Azure DevOps Server in the terminal