azure-devops-secret-variable-job-materialization
Secret variables are unavailable to inventory reads but are materialized as plaintext for authorized pipeline tasks. No single Azure RBAC action authorizes the downstream destination; its own access control applies.
Where it sits
| location | Azure Pipelines job environment/task input generated from variable marked isSecret=true |
| location kind | environment_variable |
| data kinds | credential password api_key access_key secret_key oauth_token connection_string |
| emits edge | ContainsSecret |
| service | Azure DevOps (azure:devops) |
Collection recipe
| access mode | indirect_destination |
| operation | Azure Pipelines agent secret-variable materialization |
| response path | job environment or task input |
| encoding | json |
| params | {"resource_id": "\u003cazure-resource-id\u003e"} |
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