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buildkite-mcp-server MCP Server

MCP server exposing Buildkite API data (pipelines, builds, jobs, tests) to AI tooling and editors.

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Published as ghcr.io/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server:0.7.0 on oci. Runs locally.

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18 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Buildkite mcp having no api to get the job ids of the run?

I believe this is MCP/api level issue, I constantly get asked to manually go to Ui and get the job id, It clearly has access to see whats going on in overall run but when it needs to go to failed job it cant find an id, it has no way to do so.

Do you actually have api to do it? is it planned?

Read the thread · 2026-03-18 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Add support to get number of agents connected in queue

Would love to have a tool exposed where we can get the number of agents connected to a queue for any buildkite cluster

Read the thread · 2026-03-09 · open · external user · 4 comments

bufio.Scanner: token too long

I am seeing regular failures from Claude code when trying to download parquet logs to search/tail, unless I instruct the MCP server to use incredibly small line counts. This happens with both the x86 binary and the docker image:

● buildkite - Tail Logs (MCP)(build_number: "1820879", job_id: "0198d48a...e8b3c1d2de8b", org_slug: "<>", pipeline_slug: "<>", tail: 50)
  ⎿  Error: Failed to create log reader: failed to download/cache logs: failed to export logs to parquet: error during iteration:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/128) · 2025-08-25 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Need Query Endpoint For Pipelines

If working in an organization with a large amount of pipelines this MCP server because almost useless because it has to _list_ all the pipelines page-by-page rather than querying for them by name or slug. Is it possible to add a new search endpoint that could be used to locate pipelines faster?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/110) · 2025-08-07 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### [Request] Add to Docker MCP Catalog

Docker has recently released a new way to manage MCP servers with the MCP Gateway (https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway), but doing so conveniently requires having a docker container in their official catalog:

https://hub.docker.com/mcp
https://github.com/docker/mcp-registry/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

As a user of the Buildkite MCP server I would love for this to be in their catalog so I can make use of the MCP gateway!

Thanks 🙇

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/96) · 2025-07-18 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Most recent

### Feature Request: Add support for --passthrough-http-headers to propagate authentication context

**Description:**
I am currently running the buildkite-mcp-server as a sidecar/proxy service to enable LLM-based CI interactions. To ensure secure, end-to-end authentication in our environment, we need a mechanism to propagate user identity from the incoming MCP request to the downstream company-internal Buildkite proxy service.

**Problem:**
When the buildkite-mcp-server acts as a proxy, there is currently no mechanism to forward specific HTTP headers (such as an authorization token) from the MC

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/313) · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### get_artifact forwards Authorization header to S3 presigned URLs, causing download failure

When `get_artifact` is called with a Buildkite artifact download URL, the tool calls the Buildkite REST API which returns a 302 redirect to an S3 presigned URL. The go-buildkite HTTP client used in the MCP impl then fetches that presigned URL with the bearer token auth header added, which S3 rejects.

The error looks like this:
```xml
  <Error>
    <Code>InvalidArgument</Code>
    <Message>Only one auth mechanism allowed; only the X-Amz-Algorithm query parameter, Signature query string parameter

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/278) · 2026-06-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Feature: add `download_artifact` tool; revert `get_artifact` to metadata-only

## Summary

The existing artifact tooling has a gap that breaks agent workflows requiring actual artifact content:

- `list_artifacts_for_job` / `list_artifacts_for_build` return artifact metadata including both `url` (metadata endpoint) and `download_url` (download endpoint) ✓
- `get_artifact` currently downloads full file content via `DownloadArtifactByURL` and returns it base64-encoded — loading binary file content into the MCP/LLM context is impractical for large files
- **There is no tool t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/265) · 2026-04-14 · open · external user · 1 comment

### `read_logs` fails for retried/replaced jobs ("job not found")

When a job has been retried, the original job is replaced in the build's jobs array (REST API response). The `read_logs` tool pre-validates the job ID against that array, so it returns a "job not found" error even though the raw log endpoint (`GET /v2/organizations/{org}/pipelines/{pipeline}/builds/{build}/jobs/{job_id}/log`) still works fine.

**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Trigger a build with a failing step
2. Retry the failed job — the original job ID is now "replaced"
3. Call `read_logs` with t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/228) · 2026-03-12 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Cannot run docker in http mode out of the box

In your docs in the readme the BK mcp server is said to take in an argument of which "type" of mcp server to run (http or stdio), but in the dockerfile it looks like we explicilty set `stdio` as the entrypoint. Should we fix this?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/159) · 2025-09-24 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Why does this require docker to run?

Seems like a heavy dependency for something that could just be sending HTTP requests to the Buildkite API. Why does this require Docker?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/151) · 2025-09-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### (Feature Request): unblock manual approval steps

Many BK pipelines have block steps. It would be nice if the agent's BK mcp server had the ability to unblock these steps itself if asked to do so.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/buildkite/buildkite-mcp-server/issues/103) · 2025-07-31 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 18 reports Pod holds for buildkite-mcp-server](/mcp/buildkite-mcp-server/issues).

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