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CircleCI

Monitors your build pipelines in real time, surfaces failing test metadata to the right developer, and triggers deployments based on external event signals.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native CircleCI integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right CircleCI calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your CircleCI data, across all 65 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke CircleCI access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in CircleCI, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when CircleCI is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach CircleCI.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every CircleCI action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on CircleCI, and when to use it.

Get Job Artifacts
Pull output files produced by a specific job after it completes. Use this to retrieve logs or build binaries.
Get Job Details
Fetch status, timing, and executor information for a specific job using its number.
Get Pipeline Config
Pull the source or compiled yaml of a specific pipeline by its ID.
Get Test Metadata
Pull detailed test results, run times, and failure messages after a job completes.
Get User Information
Retrieve profile details for a CircleCI user using their unique ID.
List Pipelines
Pull all pipelines for a specific project to track recent runs or build history.
List Self Hosted Runners
Retrieve all configured self hosted runners for your organization to check availability.
List Workflows
Pull or paginate through all workflows associated with a specific pipeline ID.
Trigger Pipeline
Start a new build on a specific branch or tag programmatically.
Search Pipelines
Query pipelines based on project name or branch to find specific build versions.
Cancel Job
Stop a running job to save credits or halt a bad deployment.
Rerun Workflow
Restart a failed workflow to verify a fix without pushing new code.
List Pipelines for Project
Tool to list all pipelines for a specific project. use when you need to retrieve the pipelines for a project (e.g., to display recent runs on a dashboard).
List Workflows by Pipeline ID
Tool to list all workflows associated with a specific pipeline. use when you need to fetch or paginate through workflows by pipeline id.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven implements an intelligent queuing system that respects CircleCI API rate limits. If the agent hits a 429 Too Many Requests response, it automatically enters a backoff period and retries the request using an exponential delay. For high volume organizations with hundreds of concurrent pipelines, we recommend using a dedicated service account with appropriate permissions to avoid colliding with user tokens. The agent also caches pipeline configurations and user data for short durations to reduce the number of redundant calls made during a single workflow execution, ensuring your build automation remains stable even during peak deployment windows.
Yes. While CircleCI has built in scheduling, Ceven allows you to trigger pipelines based on complex external logic. You can set up a workflow where a pipeline only triggers if a specific condition is met in another tool, such as a signed off design in Figma or a approved ticket in Jira. The agent uses the Trigger Pipeline action to start the build on the desired branch. This gives you more control than a simple cron job because the agent can pass dynamic parameters to the pipeline, ensuring that the right version of the code is tested against the right environment.
Ceven does not clone your source code. It interacts exclusively with the CircleCI API to manage pipelines and retrieve metadata. When the agent pulls a pipeline configuration, it sees the yaml file used to define the build process, but it never accesses the actual application code residing in your version control system. All data transferred between CircleCI and Ceven is encrypted in transit. Your secrets and environment variables stored in CircleCI remain encrypted within the CircleCI platform and are never exposed to the Ceven agent or stored in our databases.
Absolutely. The agent can be configured to trigger immediately upon a pipeline failure. It pulls the job details and the specific test metadata to identify which test case failed and why. By analyzing the failure message, the agent can then search your documentation or previous successful runs to suggest a fix. It can even gather the relevant job artifacts, such as log files or screenshots from a failed UI test, and attach them to a developer notification in Slack, which removes the need for the developer to manually navigate through the CircleCI dashboard.
The required permissions depend on the actions you want to automate. For read only dashboards, a token with read access to pipelines and jobs is sufficient. If you want the agent to trigger builds or cancel jobs, you will need a token with write permissions for the specific projects involved. We recommend creating a limited scope API token rather than using a personal user token. This ensures that the agent only has access to the projects it needs to manage and provides a clear audit trail in your CircleCI logs of which actions were performed by the Ceven agent.
Ceven can monitor the health and availability of your self hosted runners using the List Self Hosted Runners action. You can build a workflow that alerts your infrastructure team if the number of available runners drops below a certain threshold. While Ceven cannot provision new hardware, it can trigger a notification to your cloud provider API to scale up your runner fleet. This prevents developer bottlenecks where pipelines are queued for long periods because no runners are available to pick up the jobs, keeping your deployment pipeline moving at full speed.
One specific quirk of the CircleCI API is that certain metadata, such as detailed test results, is only available after the job has fully transitioned to a terminal state. If the agent attempts to pull test metadata while a job is still running, the API will return an empty response or an error. Ceven handles this by implementing a polling mechanism that waits for the job status to be success or failed before attempting to fetch the artifacts and metadata. Additionally, some advanced pipeline features are gated by CircleCI pricing tiers, so ensure your plan supports the API endpoints your workflow requires.
Yes. Ceven can manage as many projects as your API token has access to. You can create global workflows that aggregate the status of multiple pipelines across different repositories. For example, you can build a release health dashboard that checks the status of five different microservices before marking a global release as stable. The agent can iterate through a list of project IDs, check their most recent pipeline status, and provide a consolidated report, making it much easier to manage complex distributed systems than checking each project individually in the UI.

Alternatives to CircleCI

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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