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SF friends 👋 We’re hosting our first Buildkite Localhost, a casual meetup for folks interested in developer tooling. No talks, no pitches. Just food, drinks, and real conversations about AI-generated code, scaling CI, and keeping pipelines sane. Perry’s Embarcadero Jan 28 from 6–8 PM luma.com/4a8vm2zb

2025 SaaS landing page of the year award → BuildKite.

Building an MCP server for Buildkite taught us three important lessons about building great agent tools: - Wrapping your REST API isn't enough — agents need structured, clean data - You only control tool shape, not agent strategy - LLMs are lazy — make the right path the easiest one See how we applied this to CI log navigation: buildkite.com/resources/blog…

Congrats to all the LEGO winners who stopped by the booth @ #AWSreInvent (check the 🧵) Can't wait to see these builds once they're complete! 🧱 P.S. If you're in Vegas & haven't come to see us yet, we might have a few sets left 🤞🤞🤞

To get help from an LLM with a broken CI build, you have to give it a log — but build logs can be huge and filled with noise that nave nothing to do with what actually went wrong. In this post, we share how we solved this problem in the @buildkite MCP server by asking the LLM to critique its own work: buildkite.com/resources/blog…

🎉 We recently shipped agentic workflow components for Buildkite including an MCP server, model providers, pipeline triggers, and more. Here are three practical examples you can deploy with today: buildkite.com/resources/blog…

Yesterday we announced a handful of new components for the @buildkite platform that make working with AI agents in CI/CD a lot easier: buildkite.com/resources/blog… Model providers — which are like pass-through proxies to frontier models like Claude and others that let you drop into an LLM from within a Buildkite pipeline without having to mess with credentials Universal pipeline triggers — inbound webhooks you can use to invoke pipelines with HTTP requests (think Linear issue → Buildkite run → shiny new pull request) The Buildkite SDK — a multi-language toolkit (TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby) that lets you manage your pipelines with general-purpose languages rather than YAML ... and a bunch more. I've written it all up in the following post, and built out a few reference examples to make it easier to kick the tires and get useful stuff done. ✨ Let me know what you think!

AI tools are starting to hit CI with short bursts of work. We’re seeing agents push enough small changes to slow merge queues and eat up test capacity, even when nothing looks wrong on the surface. If your pipelines feel slower without a clear reason, this breakdown may help: buildkite.com/resources/blog…

Booth building @ #AWSreInvent See you all soon

With 25,000+ builds daily, build failures were costing Wayfair significant developer time. See how they cut resolution from 26 to 10 minutes using RAG + MCP to surface fix recommendations directly in the IDE, keeping developers in flow: buildkite.com/resources/webi…

Absolutely loving the special @buildkite LEGO set from this year's BazelCon!

@buildkite is so good

Buildkite 💚 BazelCon

🎉 We shipped updates to our K8s agent stack: one token setup, significantly smaller objects for better cluster performance, and full YAML specs in error messages. Check it out here: buildkite.com/resources/blog…