# BuildBuddy — developer ecosystem report

> BuildBuddy manages Bazel for you, so you can focus on building your product.

- GitHub org: `buildbuddy-io`
- Category: platform
- Overall score: 32.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #717
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-20

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 42.0 | #674 | ~22% |
| Education | 58.0 | #595 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 8.0 | #924 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 38.0 | #385 | ~16% |
| Reach | 35.0 | #652 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 19.0 | #649 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/buildbuddy-io
- Website: https://buildbuddy.io
- Docs: https://docs.buildbuddy.io

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 1,054 |
| Forks | 218 |
| Open issues | 297 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [buildbuddy](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy) | 781 | Go | BuildBuddy is an open source Bazel build event viewer, result store, remote cache, and remote build execution platform. |
| [bazel_env.bzl](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/bazel_env.bzl) | 98 | Starlark | A virtual environment for Bazel-managed tools and toolchains. |
| [rules_claude](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/rules_claude) | 40 | Starlark | Bazel rules and hermetic toolchain for Claude Code - Anthropic's AI coding assistant CLI. |
| [reninja](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/reninja) | 38 | Go | Reninja: faster, more observable ninja builds |
| [buildbuddy-helm](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy-helm) | 25 | Mustache | Official BuildBuddy Helm charts  |
| [buildbuddy-toolchain](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy-toolchain) | 21 | Starlark | Bazel toolchains for BuildBuddy RBE |
| [rules_codex](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/rules_codex) | 15 | Starlark | Bazel rules for running Codex prompts as build, test, and run actions. |
| [buildbuddy-foss](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy-foss) | 12 | Go | BuildBuddy FOSS is a read-only mirror of BuildBuddy, with all proprietary code removed. NOTE: This repo is synced automa |
| [linux-to-mac-rbe-demo](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/linux-to-mac-rbe-demo) | 9 | Starlark | Demo repo with Linux hosts remote executing on macOS executors |
| [protoc-gen-protobufjs](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/protoc-gen-protobufjs) | 4 | Go | A faster, Bazel-friendly version of protobufjs-cli, written in Go. |
| [buildbuddy-cli](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy-cli) | 4 | Go | Command line interface for kicking off BuildBuddy builds  |
| [soci-snapshotter](https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/soci-snapshotter) | 2 | Go | — |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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