Buildkite Agent

Buildkite Agent 4.8.1

The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network

  • By Buildkite Pty. Ltd.
  • Open Source
  • Updated Oct 22, 2026
Download for Windows

About Buildkite Agent

The buildkite-agent is a small, reliable, and cross-platform build runner that makes it easy to run automated builds on your own infrastructure. It's main responsibilities are polling buildkite.com for work, running build jobs, reporting back the status code and output log of the job, and uploading the job's artifacts.

What's new in 4.8.1

What's Changed

🐛 Fixed

  • Report the terminating signal instead of exit status -1 in hook and command status records by @wolfeidau in #4563
  • Allow Kubernetes jobs with only the Kubernetes plugin to run when plugins are disabled by @pujitha24 in #4528
  • Remove outdated availability notices from buildkite-agent cache save and cache restore help by @buildkate in #4564

New Contributors

  • @pujitha24 made their first contribution in #4528

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherBuildkite Pty. Ltd.
Version4.8.1
Release date2026-10-22
LicenseMIT
Installer typezip
Architecturex86, x64, arm64
Package IDBuildkite.Agent

Links & install command

Install Buildkite Agent from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Buildkite.Agent -e

buildkitecdcici-cdcontinuous-deliverycontinuous-deploymentcontinuous-integration

Older versions

  • 4.8.0
  • 4.7.0
  • 4.6.0
  • 4.5.0
  • 4.4.0
  • 4.3.0
  • 4.2.1
  • 4.2.0
  • 4.1.0