# Buildkite Plugins — developer ecosystem report

> Official and community plugins for Buildkite Agent v3

- GitHub org: `buildkite-plugins`
- Category: dev_tool
- Overall score: 48.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #266
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-19

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 61.0 | #213 | ~22% |
| Education | 79.0 | #142 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 66.0 | #49 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 36.0 | #428 | ~16% |
| Reach | 40.0 | #499 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 42.0 | #317 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/buildkite-plugins
- Website: https://buildkite.com
- Docs: https://buildkite.com/docs

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 803 |
| Forks | 726 |
| Open issues | 97 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [docker-compose-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/docker-compose-buildkite-plugin) | 186 | Shell | 🐳⚡️ Run build scripts, and build + push images, w/ Docker Compose |
| [docker-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/docker-buildkite-plugin) | 122 | Shell | 🐳📦 Run any build step in a Docker container |
| [monorepo-diff-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/monorepo-diff-buildkite-plugin) | 38 | Go | Run separate pipelines for each folder in your monorepo |
| [cache-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/cache-buildkite-plugin) | 37 | Shell | 🎩🗄Cache ephemeral files between builds |
| [artifacts-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/artifacts-buildkite-plugin) | 36 | Shell | 🆙 Automatically upload and download artifacts |
| [junit-annotate-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/junit-annotate-buildkite-plugin) | 34 | Ruby | 📈 Summarise your test failures as a build annotation |
| [ecr-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/ecr-buildkite-plugin) | 27 | Shell | 🔐 Login to an AWS ECR registry |
| [vault-secrets-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/vault-secrets-buildkite-plugin) | 25 | Shell | 🔐 Use HashiCorp Vault secrets in your Buildkite pipelines |
| [ecs-deploy-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/ecs-deploy-buildkite-plugin) | 25 | Shell | 🚀 Deploy ECS services |
| [aws-assume-role-with-web-identity-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/aws-assume-role-with-web-identity-buildkite-plugin) | 24 | Shell | A Buildkite plugin to assume-role-with-web-identity using a Buildkite OIDC token before running the build command |
| [bats-mock](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/bats-mock) | 23 | Shell | Mocking/stubbing library for BATS (Bash Automated Testing System) |
| [docker-login-buildkite-plugin](https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/docker-login-buildkite-plugin) | 17 | Shell | 🐳 Login to Docker registries |

## 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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