Find Feature and Related Work

Search for features and automatically retrieve all child work items (stories, tasks, bugs) under that feature.

When to Use

• User asks about a specific feature
• Need to see all work under a feature
• Planning or reviewing feature scope
• Understanding feature dependencies

Prerequisites

• Azure DevOps must be initialized with Initialize-AzureDevOps

Examples

Find feature and children

Get-WorkItemsByFeature -SearchText "authentication"

Find and export

Get-WorkItemsByFeature -SearchText "PDF export" |
    Export-WorkItemsToMarkdown -OutputPath "pdf-feature.md" -IncludeAcceptanceCriteria

Check feature status

$items = Get-WorkItemsByFeature -SearchText "bill drafting"
$items | Group-Object State | Select-Object Name, Count

Function

Get-WorkItemsByFeature

Searches for feature by text and returns feature plus all child items.

Parameters

• SearchText: Text to search in feature title (required)

Output

Returns array of work item objects including:

• The feature itself
• All child user stories
• All child tasks
• All child bugs
• Complete hierarchy with relations

Tips for Copilot

• Good starting point for feature planning
• Use with Export-WorkItemsToMarkdown for reports
• Check State distribution to see progress
• Useful for dependency analysis