AutomatedLab | provisioning solution and framework that lets you deploy | Command Line Interface library

I am currently automating TFS/VSTS for the lab module I am working on, AutomatedLab. So far, I am progressing quite well. All calls to the REST API are done in PowerShell with Invoke-RestMethod.

The one thing I am not figuring out is: How can I get a list of build steps that I can use in my builds? The API documentation (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/integrate/api/overview) contains nothing that helped me. I also did not find anything related to my question on StackOverflow (assuming that I used the correct search terms).

While I can add a new build definition I cannot figure out how to properly add build steps like Run Script, Publish Test Results and so on.

My research so far:

• I can get a list of my build definitions. Those definitions have the property url which I can use to request the JSON data describing my build steps, e.g. http://dsc1tfs1:8080/tfs/AutomatedLab/1900e200-5238-4956-816c-b29c50163f93/_apis/build/Definitions/1
• These build steps were created manually and need to be automated

• The build steps from the aforementioned URL contain all the info I need

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