Buildkite API

Name: Buildkite API API
Brand: Buildkite API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentDeveloper ToolsCi Cdbearer18 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Trigger builds, manage pipelines, and inspect agents inside a Buildkite organisation across 18 REST endpoints.

Quickstart

Get started with Buildkite API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"trigger a Buildkite build"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Buildkite API API.

List, create, update, and delete pipelines inside a Buildkite organisation

Trigger a new build on a pipeline with a commit SHA, branch, and message

List builds across the whole account, an organisation, or a single pipeline

Cancel an in-flight build or rebuild a previously completed build

GET STARTED

Start building with Buildkite API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Buildkite API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Buildkite API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Buildkite is a CI/CD platform that runs build jobs on customer-controlled agents while providing a hosted control plane for organisations, pipelines, builds, and self-hosted agents. The v2 REST API covers the operator surface: listing and managing pipelines, triggering and cancelling builds, rebuilding past runs, and inspecting connected agents. Use it to script pipeline provisioning, kick off ad-hoc deploys, surface build status in a custom dashboard, or wire CI events into chat and incident tools.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Buildkite API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ ChatOps Deploy Triggers

Let engineers trigger releases from Slack with a slash command. The agent translates the command into a POST /organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds call, supplies the branch and commit, and replies with the build URL. Combined with the cancel and rebuild endpoints it covers the full deploy controls without anyone touching the dashboard.

Trigger a build on the deploy-prod pipeline at branch main with commit SHA abc123 and message Manual deploy from Slack.

Pipeline Provisioning at Scale

Create Buildkite pipelines programmatically when new repositories are onboarded. POST /organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines accepts pipeline YAML and repository URL so a script can spin up CI for every new service. Pair it with PATCH to update steps as the standard pipeline template evolves across the organisation.

Create a Buildkite pipeline named payments-service in the example-org organisation, pointing at github.com/example/payments-service with the standard build steps.

Build Health Dashboard

Power a custom dashboard that surfaces flaky pipelines and long-running builds. Poll GET /organizations/{org_slug}/builds with state filters, group by pipeline, and compute pass rate and median duration. Use the rebuild endpoint to retry suspected flakes automatically and tag the rebuild reason in the message.

List all builds in the last 24 hours, group by pipeline, and post the top 3 pipelines with the most failures to a Slack channel.

AI Agent Release Captain via Jentic

An on-call agent connected via Jentic can act as a release captain — triggering builds, cancelling ones that fail review, and confirming the rebuild succeeded. The agent searches Jentic for trigger a build, loads the POST .../builds schema, and executes against the operator's vault-stored Buildkite token without ever exposing the secret.

Search Jentic for trigger a Buildkite build, load the schema, execute it for pipeline deploy-prod on branch main, and poll until the build state is passed or failed.

Key Endpoints

18 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for buildkite api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds

Create a build

PUT

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds/{build_number}/cancel

Cancel a build

PUT

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds/{build_number}/rebuild

Rebuild a build

POST

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines

Create a pipeline

GET

/organizations/{org_slug}/builds

List builds in an organisation

GET

/organizations/{org_slug}/agents

List agents

PUT

/organizations/{org_slug}/agents/{agent_id}

Stop an agent

POST

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds

Create a build

PUT

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds/{build_number}/cancel

Cancel a build

PUT

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds/{build_number}/rebuild

Rebuild a build

POST

/organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines

Create a pipeline

GET

/organizations/{org_slug}/builds

List builds in an organisation

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Buildkite API access token is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents never see the raw token — Jentic injects the Authorization header at execution time and returns only the API response.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic with intents like trigger a build or cancel a build, and Jentic returns the matching Buildkite operations with full input schemas, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing docs.

Time to first call

Direct Buildkite integration: half a day for token handling, build polling, and webhook setup. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

CircleCI API

CircleCI is a hosted CI/CD platform that runs jobs on its own infrastructure, while Buildkite runs jobs on customer-controlled agents.

Choose CircleCI when you want fully managed CI without running your own agent fleet; choose Buildkite when you need build jobs to run on your own machines.

Complementary

Bugsnag API

Bugsnag captures runtime errors in builds Buildkite has shipped to production.

Use Bugsnag with Buildkite to correlate stability dips after a release back to the build that introduced them.

Complementary

Bugfender API

Bugfender captures device logs from mobile builds shipped via Buildkite pipelines.

Pair Buildkite with Bugfender when shipping mobile apps to trace runtime log evidence back to a specific build.

FAQs

Specific to using Buildkite API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Buildkite API?

Buildkite documents its REST API in human-readable form but does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Buildkite API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Buildkite API use?

Buildkite uses HTTP bearer authentication with an API access token generated from your personal settings. Each request must include Authorization: Bearer <token>. Through Jentic, the token is stored encrypted in the vault and the header is constructed at execution time.

Can I trigger a Buildkite build through the API?

Yes. POST /organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds creates a new build with parameters for branch, commit SHA, message, and environment variables. The response includes the build number and URL so you can poll its status afterwards.

Can I cancel or rebuild a Buildkite build through the API?

Yes. PUT /organizations/{org_slug}/pipelines/{pipeline_slug}/builds/{build_number}/cancel cancels an in-flight build, and PUT on the same path with /rebuild retries a completed build. Both return the updated build resource.

What are the rate limits for the Buildkite API?

Buildkite enforces per-token rate limits that are not encoded in the OpenAPI spec. Add retry-with-backoff for HTTP 429 responses and avoid tight polling on the builds endpoints — prefer webhooks for build state change notifications when possible.

How do I trigger a Buildkite build from an AI agent through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic and authenticate with your ak_* key. Search Jentic with trigger a Buildkite build, load the POST .../builds operation, and execute it with org_slug, pipeline_slug, branch, and commit. Jentic injects the bearer token from your stored credential.