Make direct GitLab REST API calls for advanced queries and operations not covered by other glab commands. Use when accessing GitLab API endpoints directly, making custom API requests, or fetching data in JSON format. Triggers on API call, REST API, GitLab API, JSON query, advanced query.
Work with GitLab attestations for software supply chain security including artifact verification and provenance. Use when verifying software artifacts, managing attestations, or working with supply chain security. Triggers on attestation, verify artifact, provenance, supply chain security.
Generate changelogs from GitLab releases, tags, and commits. Use when creating release notes, generating changelog files, or documenting version history. Triggers on changelog, release notes, version history, generate changelog.
Check for glab CLI updates and view latest version information. Use when checking if glab is up to date or finding available updates. Triggers on update glab, check version, glab version, CLI update.
Work with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, jobs, and artifacts. Use when checking pipeline status, viewing job logs, debugging CI failures, triggering manual jobs, downloading artifacts, validating .gitlab-ci.yml, or managing pipeline runs. Triggers on pipeline, CI/CD, job, build, deployment, artifact, pipeline status, failed build, CI logs.
Manage GitLab Kubernetes clusters and agent integrations. Use when connecting clusters, managing cluster agents, or working with Kubernetes integration. Triggers on cluster, Kubernetes, k8s, cluster agent, connect cluster.
Generate shell completion scripts for bash, zsh, fish, or PowerShell. Use when setting up glab autocompletion for your shell. Triggers on completion, autocomplete, shell completion, tab completion.
Manage SSH deploy keys for GitLab projects including add, list, and delete operations. Use when setting up deploy keys for CI/CD, managing read-only access, or configuring deployment authentication. Triggers on deploy key, SSH key, deployment key, read-only access.
Interact with GitLab Duo AI assistant for code suggestions and chat. Use when accessing AI-powered code assistance, getting code suggestions, or chatting with GitLab Duo. Triggers on Duo, AI assistant, code suggestions, AI chat.
Manage GPG keys for commit signing including add, list, and delete operations. Use when setting up commit signing, managing GPG keys, or verifying signed commits. Triggers on GPG key, commit signing, signed commits, verify commits.
Display help information for glab commands and subcommands. Use when learning glab commands, viewing command syntax, or getting usage examples. Triggers on help, command help, usage, glab help.
Manage GitLab incidents for issue tracking and incident management. Use when creating incidents, managing incident response, or linking incidents to issues. Triggers on incident, incident management, create incident, incident response.
Create, view, update, and manage GitLab issues. Use when working with issue tracking, bug reports, feature requests, or task management. Operations include creating issues, listing with filters, viewing details, adding comments/notes, updating labels/assignees/milestones, closing/reopening, and board management. Triggers on issue, bug, task, ticket, feature request, list issues, create issue.
Manage GitLab iterations for project planning and sprint management. Use when creating iterations, assigning issues to sprints, or viewing iteration progress. Triggers on iteration, sprint, iteration planning, sprint planning.
Work with individual CI/CD jobs including view, retry, cancel, trace logs, and download artifacts. Use when debugging job failures, viewing job logs, retrying jobs, or managing job execution. Triggers on job, CI job, job logs, retry job, job artifacts.
Manage GitLab labels including create, list, update, and delete operations at project and group level. Use when organizing issues/MRs with labels, creating label taxonomies, or managing label colors/descriptions. Triggers on label, tag, issue label, create label, manage labels.
Work with Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistant integration. Exposes GitLab features as tools for AI assistants (like Claude Code) to interact with projects, issues, merge requests, and pipelines. Use when integrating AI assistants with GitLab or working with MCP servers. Triggers on MCP, Model Context Protocol, AI assistant integration, glab mcp serve.
Manage project milestones including create, list, update, view, and close operations. Use when planning releases, tracking milestone progress, or organizing issues/MRs by milestone. Triggers on milestone, release planning, milestone progress, version milestone.
Plain text files in a repository that tell a coding agent how the project works: commands to run, conventions to follow and things to avoid. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, cursor rules and skills are the common kinds.
CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md?
CLAUDE.md is read by Claude Code. AGENTS.md is an open format that Codex, Cursor and other agents read. Many projects keep one and point the other at it.
What is a skill?
A folder with a SKILL.md that describes one capability, such as filling PDFs or reviewing code. The agent loads it only when the task calls for it.
Can I search my own team's files too?
Your agents already can, over MCP, limited to the files you're allowed to read. Searching them from this page is coming.