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Do AI agents pick Buildkite?

How often agents choose Buildkite when a developer needs ci/cd — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Buildkite

#2 of 6 ci cd
5%Pick Rate
95% CI 2%11%

When developers ask an AI agent for ci cd, Buildkite is picked 5% of the time — ranking #2 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 5% Named, not picked 24% Never surfaced 70%

Beaten by GitHub Actions (28%).

Awareness

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 977 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

189K installs / month ▲ 6% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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The per-model and per-surface breakdown for Buildkite — where it wins, where it loses, and to whom — plus an alert when the Pick Rate moves.

About Buildkite

Buildkite is a CI/CD platform for running fast, scalable pipelines on your own infrastructure.

Buildkite lets teams define and run automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. Agents run on your own machines or cloud, giving you control over the execution environment while Buildkite handles orchestration and the dashboard. It's aimed at engineering teams that want CI/CD without handing their code or compute over to a third-party service.

Where to start

Developers typically define pipelines using YAML or programmatically via an SDK, then connect Buildkite agents running on their own infrastructure to pick up and execute jobs. The TypeScript SDK lets you construct and output pipeline definitions directly from code.

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