Buildkite adds pipeline-scoped secrets and agentic CI tools
Buildkite introduced secrets scoped to a single pipeline with conditions on branch, queue and build creator. Its open-source MCP server gained validate_pipeline, compare_builds and create_pipeline_webhook tools, and the GitHub Actions compatibility layer now supports Linux arm64.
- Pipeline secrets stay hidden after creation and need pipeline and cluster permissions
- validate_pipeline checks YAML against the schema without starting a build
- compare_builds diffs a failed build against the last successful one on the branch
- Agent v4.1.0 adds cache save and restore durations and sizes to telemetry
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