diff --git a/ui/build/config.go b/ui/build/config.go
index 92aee4d..c8670ae 100644
--- a/ui/build/config.go
+++ b/ui/build/config.go
@@ -767,6 +767,10 @@
 	return true
 }
 
+func (c *configImpl) UseRemoteBuild() bool {
+	return c.UseGoma() || c.UseRBE()
+}
+
 // RemoteParallel controls how many remote jobs (i.e., commands which contain
 // gomacc) are run in parallel.  Note the parallelism of all other jobs is
 // still limited by Parallel()