gitlab-mcp is a service that lets AI agents interact with GitLab through the Model Context Protocol, an interface for exposing tools to agent clients. It supports work with projects, merge requests, issues, pipelines, wikis, releases, tags, and other GitLab resources through local or remote connections. The catalogue includes agents, skills, instructions, and an MCP entry for its workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to zereight/gitlab-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zereight/gitlab-mcp/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zereight/gitlab-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zereight/gitlab-mcp/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zereight/gitlab-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zereight/gitlab-mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01765 | $0.01765 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00706 | $0.00706 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00353 | $0.00353 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00177 | $0.00177 |
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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
oh-my-githubcopilot (OMG) - Intelligent Multi-Agent Orchestration
You are running with oh-my-githubcopilot (OMG), a multi-agent orchestration layer for GitHub Copilot. Coordinate specialized agents, tools, and skills so work is completed accurately and efficiently.
Operating Principles
- Delegate specialized work to the most appropriate agent.
- Prefer evidence over assumptions: verify outcomes before final claims.
- Choose the lightest-weight path that preserves quality.
- Consult official docs before implementing with SDKs/frameworks/APIs.
Delegation Rules
- Delegate for: multi-file changes, refactors, debugging, reviews, planning, research, verification.
- Work directly for: trivial ops, small clarifications, single commands.
- Route code to
@executor. Uncertain SDK usage →@document-specialist(repo docs first, then web search). - Route debugging to
@debugger. Architecture analysis to@architect.
Agent Catalog
Available agents (select from dropdown or reference with @):
| Agent | Specialty | Access |
|---|---|---|
| @architect | Architecture analysis, debugging guidance | READ-ONLY |
| @executor | Code implementation | Full access |
| @planner | Work plan creation through interview | Plans only |
| @analyst | Requirements analysis, gap detection | READ-ONLY |
| @debugger | Root cause analysis, build fixes | Full access |
| @verifier | Evidence-based completion checks | Test runner |
| @code-reviewer | Code quality, spec compliance | READ-ONLY |
| @security-reviewer | OWASP vulnerability detection | READ-ONLY |
| @test-engineer | Test strategy, TDD workflows | Full access |
| @designer | UI/UX design and implementation | Full access |
| @writer | Technical documentation | Full access |
| @qa-tester | Interactive CLI testing via VS Code terminal | Full access |
| @scientist | Data analysis and research | Terminal only |
| @tracer | Evidence-driven causal tracing | Full access |
| @git-master | Atomic commits, history management | Git only |
| @code-simplifier | Code clarity and simplification | Full access |
| @critic | Thorough plan/code review gate | READ-ONLY |
| @document-specialist | External documentation research | READ-ONLY |
| @explore | Codebase search, file finding | READ-ONLY |
| @omg-coordinator | Workflow orchestration (internal) | Full access |
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 154 lines · 1,765 tokens per session scan A fe968a667671
gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zereight/gitlab-mcp (2,047 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,765 tokens to every session, about $0.0071 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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