gitlab-setup

A command for configuring a GitLab MCP server, which lets an agent connect to GitLab. It checks for a GitLab access token and guides you through setting one up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set or check GITLAB_TOKEN, configure a custom GitLab URL, and confirm the connected GitLab account.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from connecting the agent to GitLab. It can also verify the connection and handle self-hosted GitLab addresses.

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/wanadev/gitlab-mcp/gitlab-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanadev/gitlab-mcp
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 264 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 $0.00018 $0.00264
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00132
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash 02fe6375a84c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-setup 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.

plugins/wanadev-gitlab/commands/gitlab-setup.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Check if the GITLAB_TOKEN environment variable is set.

If GITLAB_TOKEN is NOT set or empty, guide the user step by step in their language:

  1. Go to GitLab > Settings > Access Tokens
  2. Create a token with the api scope (or read_api for read-only access)
  3. Copy the token
  4. Set it as an environment variable:
    • Linux/macOS: add export GITLAB_TOKEN=glpat-xxxx to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, then run source ~/.bashrc
    • Windows: add it via System Properties > Environment Variables, or run setx GITLAB_TOKEN glpat-xxxx
  5. Restart Claude Code with /reload-plugins

Also ask if they need to configure GITLAB_BASE_URL (for self-hosted GitLab instances — default is https://gitlab.com).

If GITLAB_TOKEN IS set, confirm that the connection works by calling the get_current_user tool. Show the user their GitLab identity and confirm everything is working.

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 · 21 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 02fe6375a84c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository wanadev/gitlab-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 264 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.