Buildkite MCP
Buildkite's official MCP server. Inspect pipelines, builds, and jobs from agents. 49 GitHub stars and 2 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Buildkite's official MCP server. Inspect pipelines, builds, and jobs from agents. 49 stars and 2 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"buildkite": {
"command": "buildkite-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
],
"env": {
"BUILDKITE_API_TOKEN": "YOUR_BUILDKITE_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"buildkite": {
"command": "buildkite-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
],
"env": {
"BUILDKITE_API_TOKEN": "YOUR_BUILDKITE_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"buildkite": {
"command": "buildkite-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
],
"env": {
"BUILDKITE_API_TOKEN": "YOUR_BUILDKITE_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"buildkite": {
"command": "buildkite-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
],
"env": {
"BUILDKITE_API_TOKEN": "YOUR_BUILDKITE_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"buildkite": {
"command": "buildkite-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
],
"env": {
"BUILDKITE_API_TOKEN": "YOUR_BUILDKITE_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}
6 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- Buildkite official maintenance.
- MIT license, 49 GitHub stars.
- 2 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- Go binary; no Node or Python runtime required.
- trigger_build allows agent-driven build re-runs.
- Buildkite account required.
- trigger_build is destructive in a CI sense; agent prompt path needs review.
- Tool surface scoped to inspection plus trigger; no pipeline-config edit tools.
BUILDKITE_API_TOKEN can be scoped to specific organisations and pipelines via the Buildkite token settings. Use the minimum scopes required for the agent flow. trigger_build can re-run any pipeline the token can read; consider restricting to non-production pipelines for agent flows.
Buildkite users adopting agent-driven CI workflows; teams that want agents to inspect failed builds and trigger reruns; SREs managing multi-pipeline Buildkite organisations.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this49 stars on buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server. 2 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with CircleCI, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, Azure AKS, GKE, Kubernetes MCPs in infrastructure. Adds Buildkite-specific CI surface.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 5 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 5 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.2editorial | 49 | — | MAY 6, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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