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Do AI agents pick CircleCI?

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

CircleCI

#4 of 6 ci cd
0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%3%

When developers ask an AI agent for ci cd, CircleCI is picked 0% of the time — ranking #4 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 60% Never surfaced 40%

Beaten by GitHub Actions (28%), Buildkite (5%), GitLab CI/CD (0%).

Awareness

1 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 2.0K URLs in Common Crawl

Present in the raw crawl and the filtered corpus models train on — solid corpus footprint.

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

230K installs / month ▼ 16% MoM

Installs are declining. Worth pairing with the Pick Rate trend to find the leak.

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

About CircleCI

CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform for automating software builds, tests, and deployments.

CircleCI lets development teams define pipelines as code using YAML configuration files, running automated workflows on code changes across a range of execution environments including Docker, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It is aimed at software teams that want to automate testing and release processes, with support for parallelism, caching, and orbs (reusable config packages).

Where to start

Developers typically start by adding a `.circleci/config.yml` file to their repository and connecting the repo to CircleCI through its web interface. Configuration can be written by hand using the CircleCI config reference, or generated programmatically — though note that the official JavaScript Config SDK is no longer maintained by CircleCI.

Install

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