gitlab

A reusable tool for creating and managing GitLab merge requests, which are proposals to combine code changes into a shared branch. It follows conventions found in the repository and its authenticated GitLab account.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create branches, commit changes, open merge requests, apply project metadata, and update the linked Jira issue.
Why use it?
It avoids guesswork around branch names, commit messages, merge-request templates, labels, and linked Jira work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/alirezasoltanijazi/skillnir/gitlab
Any agent
npx skills add AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir --skill gitlab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,703 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 $0.00135 $0.02703
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01352
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00270

Measured 3d ago against content hash ae022a434e39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-gitlab.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.data/skills/gitlab/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before You Start

Read LEARNED.md first. It holds corrections, preferences, and per-repo conventions (branch style, target branch, MR-template path, label taxonomy, the linked Jira review status, and any glab flag differences confirmed on this machine). Every rule there overrides defaults in this skill.

Announce skill usage. Say "Using: gitlab skill" at the very start of your response before doing any work.

Preflight: run glab auth status. If glab is not installed, tell the user to install the GitLab CLI (glab) and run glab auth login — never guess credentials. Confirm exact flags with glab mr create --help on first use and record any differences to LEARNED.md (flag names can vary by glab version).

When to Use

  1. Raising a merge request following the repo's convention
  2. Creating a convention-named branch for a Jira ticket
  3. Committing with the repo's ticket-prefixed subject format
  4. Building an MR description from the diff + the repo's MR template
  5. Applying labels / milestone and updating the linked Jira ticket

Do NOT Use

  • GitHub pull requests — use github.
  • Creating or transitioning Jira tickets as the primary task — use jira. This skill only updates the linked ticket at the end of the MR flow.
  • CI/CD pipeline files (.gitlab-ci.yml) — use devopsEngineer.
  • Never add file paths / code to the Jira ticket — keep the ticket non-technical; technical detail goes in the MR description.

Access & Convention Detection

Fact Value
Tool glab CLI (authenticated) + git
Project Auto-resolved from the current repo — never hardcode
Target branch Detect, don't assume (often main or master)
Terminology GitLab uses Merge Request (MR), not Pull Request

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 139 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A ae022a434e39

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlirezaSoltaniJazi/Skillnir (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 2,703 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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