buildkite/agent

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The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network

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Forks: 383
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 153
Avg merge: 1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d): 74

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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153 open issues indexed

Local hooks only derive from checkout directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

buildkite/agent#4383 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Bug: Job log temp file (`tmpFile`) is never closed before deletion in `JobRunner` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

buildkite/agent#4331 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Option to fetch the base branch during checkout, not just for pipeline upload's if_changed diff Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

buildkite/agent#4284 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Building w/ test merge commit has confusing error message on merge conflicts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

buildkite/agent#4244 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
gitFetch shellword-splits every refspec, corrupting legal ref names built from BUILDKITE_BRANCH Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

buildkite/agent#4212 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Git mirror branch ref goes permanently stale when a tag shares the branch name Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

buildkite/agent#4211 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Emit exit_code, signal, and signal_reason as part of opentelemetry traces/spans Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 63/100

buildkite/agent#4043 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
Add config for setting max configurable OIDC token lifetime `buildkite-agent` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

buildkite/agent#3793 · Opened Apr 5, 2026
Buildkite logs redactor patterns are evaluated greedily, and short values still redacted Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

buildkite/agent#3588 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Agent may fail to spawn jobs when environment variables approach ARG_MAX limit (fork/exec: argument list too long) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#3509 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2025
Print better error message when job times out Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

buildkite/agent#3384 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Feature Request: track optional plugin dependencies. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#3361 · Opened Jun 25, 2025
thread pool management - really high numbers of threads and memory usage per buildkite-agent Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#3302 · 2 comments · Opened May 6, 2025
Submodules not disabled for git mirrors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#3286 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2025
`refs/pull/%s/head` might not always be there, but if it is missing, buildkite fails the checkout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

buildkite/agent#3254 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 28, 2025
`BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST_BASE_BRANCH` not updated when PR base branch changed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#3253 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Support default convention for dynamic pipeline generation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#3118 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 6, 2024
UI improvements for one-shot mode (--disconnect-after-job) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

buildkite/agent#3053 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Exit code 0 when terminating in the WebUI Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#3052 · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Since v3.83.0, buildkite-agent artifact upload hangs on Windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#3044 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2024
Provide way to replace strings in logs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

buildkite/agent#3022 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 2, 2024
Configurable pipeline upload retry attempts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

buildkite/agent#2957 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Add executable permissions to directories when attempting to clean up build directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2941 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2024
"bad file descriptor" when using git mirror Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

buildkite/agent#2906 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2024
Option to prevent startup if tag fetching fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2886 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2024
Update supported ubuntu releases Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

buildkite/agent#2869 · Opened Jul 3, 2024
Signed Pipelines fail to verify when using interpolated environment variables Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

buildkite/agent#2742 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 23, 2024
Print a checksum of the artifact when uploading and downloading it Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2706 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2024
Adding custom attributes to traces at step runtime Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#2620 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 7, 2024
Use of `FETCH_HEAD` is unreliable in conjunction with multiple refspecs in `BUILDKITE_REFSPEC` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2577 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2024
auto release lock on failure Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2519 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 27, 2023
Set EnvVar for git submodule mirrors to support volume mounting git mirrors in plugins Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

buildkite/agent#2511 · Opened Nov 22, 2023
broken header streamer after v3.48.0 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

buildkite/agent#2464 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2023
Glob pattern dist/**/* doesn't discover top level (within dist/) files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

buildkite/agent#2305 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2023
`buildkite-agent pipeline upload` should chunk uploads for the user Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2224 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2023
Known issues with git mirrors Open

git-mirrors

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100

buildkite/agent#2208 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2023
Build steps hang on Windows if child processes still running Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2202 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 12, 2023
Buildkite CLI can not download Buildkite artifact Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2150 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2023
[BUG/DOC] Agent Download Bug or Confusing Docs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2099 · 2 comments · Opened May 19, 2023
Do not spam logs about skipped env var redactions for known false positives Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#2020 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2023
Error: "argument list too long" (because of large BULIDKITE_PLUGINS env var) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

buildkite/agent#2019 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 16, 2023
Distribute jobs more evenly across hosts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#1929 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2023
New versions of agent require re-authorisation of macOS system permissions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#1922 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2023
Buildkite agent in winget repository Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#1840 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2022
allow custom git clone flags during a plugin checkout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

buildkite/agent#1839 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2022
Issue parsing surrogate pair encoded emoji in pipeline JSON file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

buildkite/agent#1798 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2022
Add BUILDKITE_ORGANIZATION_ID to the list of supported environment variables Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

buildkite/agent#1795 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2022
Support for artifact configuration at the pipeline step level Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

buildkite/agent#1794 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2022
disabling submodules should not print a warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

buildkite/agent#1773 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 28, 2022
agent-shutdown hook should trigger on fatal errors Open

buildkite/agent#1772 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 28, 2022

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