# Buildkite Agent Runtime

> This skill should be used when the user asks to "add an annotation", "upload artifacts from a step", "share data between steps", "upload pipeline dynamically", "request an OIDC token inside a step", "acquire a distributed lock", "get or update a step attribute", "redact a secret from logs", "retrieve a cluster secret at runtime", or "debug environment variables in hooks". Also use when the user mentions buildkite-agent annotate, buildkite-agent artifact upload/download, buildkite-agent meta-data set/get, buildkite-agent pipeline upload, buildkite-agent oidc request-token, buildkite-agent step, buildkite-agent lock, buildkite-agent env, buildkite-agent secret get, buildkite-agent redactor add, buildkite-agent tool sign/keygen, buildkite:webhook, raw webhook payloads, or any buildkite-agent subcommand used inside a running job step.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-buildkite-buildkite-agent-runtime
- tashan id: skill:buildkite/buildkite-agent-runtime
- Source: https://github.com/buildkite/skills
- Type: skill
- Category: security
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 95.0
- Freshness: 90.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r buildkite-agent-runtime ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.