ClaudSkills / Engineering / devops

Investigating Builds

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: devops
tool:dockertype:debug
Use when the user is working with an existing Buildkite CI run and wants to understand, diagnose, or act on it. Strong signals: a buildkite.com URL, the word "buildkite", the `bk` CLI, the `bktide` tool, or a reference to a specific pipeline, build, or job. Covers intents like: "why did this build fail", "what's flaking", "summarize pass/fail rates across recent builds", "pull logs for this job", "figure out the exact command CI ran so I can reproduce it locally" (often via docker-compose), "why didn't my downstream build trigger", and debugging `bk`/`bktide` behavior itself (auth failures, query errors, sandbox issues). Do NOT use for authoring pipeline YAML or adding pipeline steps (that's `buildkite:developing-pipelines`). Do NOT use for meta-work on the Claude buildkite plugin itself (editing SKILL.md, reviewing pickled-claude-plugins PRs, adding reference docs under the plugin's directory). Do NOT use for GitHub Actions, PR review, app code changes, git merge conflicts, or local `bk` config (`~/.bk/config.yml`) that don't involve investigating an actual build. This skill reads and investigates CI runs that already exist.

What this skill does

Investigating Builds is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/investigating-builds/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user is working with an existing Buildkite CI run and wants to understand, diagnose, or act on it. Strong signals: a buildkite.

Who uses this skill

The Investigating Builds skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/investigating-builds
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/investigating-builds/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/investigating-builds/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/investigating-builds/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/investigating-builds/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\investigating-builds\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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