gitlab-board

A command set for creating and managing GitLab issue boards, including boards with columns based on labels. An issue board is a visual view of work items arranged by stages such as to do, doing, review, and done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Create GitLab boards, create standard workflow labels, find label IDs, add labeled columns, and move issues between board stages.
Why use it?
It avoids manually configuring board structures and moving issues through columns in GitLab’s interface. It provides commands for setting up Scrum labels and associating them with board columns.

Command

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 commands/gettalon/talon-plugins/gitlab-board
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gettalon/talon-plugins
Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 838 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 $0.00035 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00084

Measured 2d ago against content hash b9d69a2191cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-board 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 2d ago.

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.

plugins/talon/commands/gitlab-board.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitLab Board Management

Create and manage issue boards via glab api.

Setup Board

Boards use glab api (no native CLI). Always get the project path first:

PROJECT_PATH=$(git remote get-url origin | sed -E 's|.*://[^/]+/||;s|\.git$||' | sed 's|/|%2F|g')

Create Scrum Labels

glab label create --name "To Do" --color "#F0AD4E" --description "Backlog / ready for work"
glab label create --name "Doing" --color "#5CB85C" --description "In progress"
glab label create --name "Review" --color "#0033CC" --description "In code review"
glab label create --name "Done" --color "#69D100" --description "Completed"

Create Board

glab api "projects/${PROJECT_PATH}/boards" --method POST --field "name=Scrum Board"

Add Label Columns to Board

Get label IDs first:

glab label list

Then add each label as a board list:

BOARD_ID=<from board creation>
glab api "projects/${PROJECT_PATH}/boards/${BOARD_ID}/lists" --method POST --field "label_id=<TO_DO_ID>"
glab api "projects/${PROJECT_PATH}/boards/${BOARD_ID}/lists" --method POST --field "label_id=<DOING_ID>"
glab api "projects/${PROJECT_PATH}/boards/${BOARD_ID}/lists" --method POST --field "label_id=<REVIEW_ID>"
glab api "projects/${PROJECT_PATH}/boards/${BOARD_ID}/lists" --method POST --field "label_id=<DONE_ID>"

View Board

# List boards
glab api "projects/${PROJECT_PATH}/boards" | python3 -c "
import sys,json
for b in json.load(sys.stdin):
    print(f'Board: {b[\"name\"]} (ID: {b[\"id\"]})')
    for l in b.get('lists',[]):
        label = l.get('label',{})
        print(f'  [{l[\"position\"]}] {label.get(\"name\",\"?\")} (list_id: {l[\"id\"]})')
"

# View board in browser
glab repo view --web  # then navigate to Issues > Boards

Move Issues on Board

Moving an issue between columns = swapping labels:

# To Do → Doing
glab issue update <ID> --label "Doing" --unlabel "To Do"

# Doing → Review
glab issue update <ID> --label "Review" --unlabel "Doing"

# Review → Done
glab issue update <ID> --label "Done" --unlabel "Review"
glab issue close <ID>

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 2d ago First seen · 96 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A b9d69a2191cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-board is a command published in the GitHub repository gettalon/talon-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 838 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.