CircleCI Pipelines

Automate CircleCI — trigger pipelines, monitor workflows and jobs, and retrieve artifacts and test metadata. Kicks off runs, watches workflow status, pulls failing test output, and downloads build artifacts for debugging.

This skill drives CircleCI programmatically: triggering pipelines on branches, polling workflow and job status, fetching test results and artifacts, and surfacing why a run failed. Use it to integrate CI into automation or debug a red pipeline without leaving your editor.

When to use

Use when triggering CircleCI pipelines, monitoring workflow and job status, or retrieving build artifacts and test metadata for a run.

Examples

Trigger and watch a run

Kick off a pipeline

Trigger a CircleCI pipeline on the release branch and report back when the deploy workflow finishes or fails

Debug a failing job

Pull test output

The e2e job in my latest CircleCI workflow failed — retrieve the test metadata and artifacts so we can see which spec broke