[Ximeng Zhao (xmzhao0822)]

🤖 PR Validation — ️✔️ All clear

Breaking Changes
️✔️ None

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This checklist is used to make sure that common guidelines for a pull request are followed.

Related command

az aimanager get-credentials
az aimanager namespace get-credentials

General Guidelines

• Have you run azdev style <YOUR_EXT> locally? (pip install azdev required)
• Have you run python scripts/ci/test_index.py -q locally? (pip install azdev required)
• My extension version conforms to the Extension version schema

For new extensions:

• My extension description/summary conforms to the Extension Summary Guidelines.

About Extension Publish

There is a pipeline to automatically build, upload and publish extension wheels.
Once your pull request is merged into main branch, a new pull request will be created to update src/index.json automatically.
You only need to update the version information in file setup.py and historical information in file HISTORY.rst in your PR but do not modify src/index.json.

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

Conversion can alter unrelated cluster authentication and cause conflicts on repeated credential downloads.

3 open issues

• Add coverage for authentication helpers and merge regressions · New
• Limit authentication conversion to the newly merged context · New
• Avoid credential-format conflicts when merging repeated downloads · New

What changed in this PR

Adds automatic conversion from kubelogin device-code authentication to Azure CLI authentication for AI Manager credential downloads.

Changes:

• Detects device-code credentials and invokes kubelogin when available.
• Integrates conversion into both get-credentials commands.
• Updates the extension version and release notes.

File	Description
src/​aimanager/​setup.py	Bumps version to 2.0.1b3.
src/​aimanager/​HISTORY.rst	Documents authentication conversion.
src/​aimanager/​azext_aimanager/​custom.py	Invokes conversion after credential merging.
src/​aimanager/​azext_aimanager/​_helpers.py	Adds executable lookup, detection, and conversion helpers.

_{Review effort: Balanced}

[Ximeng Zhao (xmzhao0822)]

Tested az aimanager get-credentials -g xmz-rg -n aim888 and az aimanager namespace get-credentials -g xmz-rg -m aim888 -n ns1.

[Azure CLI Bot (azclibot)]

[Release] Update index.json for extension [ aimanager-2.0.1b3 ] : https://dev.azure.com/msazure/One/_build/results?buildId=186655173&view=results