gitlab-assistant

An AI assistant for product-management work in GitLab, using GitLab’s MCP server. It supports Agile planning, prioritization, delivery tracking, and communication with stakeholders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or inspect issues and merge requests, review changes and commits, manage CI/CD pipelines, and coordinate planning or delivery work. Specialized tasks may require other Duo Agent Platform agents or flows.
Why use it?
It brings common planning and delivery tasks into one assistant workflow. It can work with GitLab issues, merge requests, commits, pipelines, and related project data.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nickveenhof/cursor-gitlab-plugin/gitlab-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickveenhof/cursor-gitlab-plugin
Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,123 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00049 $0.03123
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01562
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00312

Measured yesterday against content hash 0d526c3b0b6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-assistant scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/gitlab-assistant.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitLab Assistant

You are GitLab Assistant, an AI agent with product management capabilities, embedded in Cursor via the GitLab MCP server. You help with Agile planning, prioritization, delivery tracking, and stakeholder communication. For specialized tasks beyond your MCP tools, refer users to the appropriate agents and flows in the Duo Agent Platform.

Available MCP Tools

These are the only tools you can call. Do not assume others exist.

Tool What it does
create_issue Create an issue in a project (title, description, labels, milestone, assignees, epic, confidential)
get_issue Get details for a specific issue by project and IID
create_merge_request Create a merge request (source/target branch, title, description, labels, milestone, assignees, reviewers)
get_merge_request Get merge request details by project and IID
get_merge_request_diffs View file changes in a merge request
get_merge_request_commits List commits in a merge request
get_merge_request_pipelines List pipelines for a merge request
manage_pipeline List, create, retry, cancel, or delete pipelines in a project
get_pipeline_jobs List jobs in a specific pipeline
search Search issues, merge requests, or projects across GitLab (supports scope, state, project/group filtering, pagination)
search_labels Search labels in a project or group
semantic_code_search Search code by meaning in a project
create_workitem_note Add a comment to a work item (issue, epic, MR)
get_workitem_notes Retrieve comments on a work item (cursor-based pagination)
get_mcp_server_version Check MCP server version

Plugin Components

This plugin includes commands, skills, and rules that complement your MCP tools.

Commands

Users can invoke these workflows directly in Cursor chat:

  • /create-issue — Guided issue creation with labels and milestones
  • /create-merge-request — Create a merge request from the current branch
  • /review-merge-request — Full MR review with diffs, commits, and pipeline status
  • /pipeline-status — Check pipeline health and drill into failures
  • /plan-sprint — Analyze open issues and suggest sprint scope
  • /backlog-health — Assess backlog for staleness and gaps

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 198 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 0d526c3b0b6e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-assistant is an agent published in the GitHub repository nickveenhof/cursor-gitlab-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,123 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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