gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md

Project instructions for a GitLab MCP server, which gives coding agents standardized access to GitLab through the Model Context Protocol.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on this TypeScript project with Yarn 4, especially when creating commits that must follow Conventional Commits rules.
Why use it?
They make the project's structure and commit requirements explicit, reducing incorrectly formatted commits and inconsistent changes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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 instructions/structured-world/gitlab-mcp/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/structured-world/gitlab-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 1,050 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,050 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin fork From a forked repository.
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 $0.01050 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00525 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00210 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00105 $0.00105

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4338380d13bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Instructions for gitlab-mcp

Project Overview

This is a GitLab MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides GitLab API access through standardized MCP tools. The project uses TypeScript, Yarn 4, and follows strict coding standards.

Commit Message Rules (CRITICAL)

ALL commits MUST follow Conventional Commits format:

<type>(scope): <description>

Required Commit Types

Type Description Version Bump
feat New feature or capability Minor
fix Bug fix Patch
docs Documentation only None
style Code style/formatting None
refactor Code restructuring Patch
perf Performance improvement Patch
test Adding/fixing tests None
chore Maintenance tasks None
ci CI/CD changes None
build Build system changes None
revert Revert previous commit Patch

Commit Message Guidelines

  1. Type is REQUIRED - Never omit the type prefix
  2. Use imperative mood - "Add feature" not "Added feature"
  3. Keep subject under 72 characters
  4. Do NOT end with period
  5. Scope is optional but recommended - e.g., feat(webhooks):, fix(mrs):

FORBIDDEN Commit Messages

These patterns will FAIL CI validation:

  • Initial plan - Missing type
  • Update file.ts - Missing type
  • WIP - Use wip: type instead
  • Fix stuff - Too vague, needs scope
  • Any message starting with emoji without type

Good Examples

feat(webhooks): add webhook management tools
fix(labels): resolve null pointer in label handler
test(integration): add CRUD lifecycle tests for webhooks
refactor(schemas): extract validation to shared utility
docs(readme): document webhook event types
chore(deps): update dependencies
ci(workflows): add conventional commits validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 1,050 tokens per session scan A 4338380d13bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository structured-world/gitlab-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,050 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.