gitlab:ci-monitor

gitlab:ci-monitor is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A monitor for GitLab CI, the service that runs automated checks on code changes. It watches a merge request, branch, or pipeline and investigates failed jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to watch merge-request checks, branch builds, or a specific pipeline, and to author or validate a .gitlab-ci.yml file.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly refresh GitLab and manually start failure diagnostics. It can wait until the pipeline succeeds or reaches a final state.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the gitlab plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to watch merge-request checks, branch builds, or a specific pipeline, and to author or validate a .gitlab-ci.yml file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/ci-monitor
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill ci-monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gitlab, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bendrucker/claude/ci-monitor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bendrucker/claude/ci-monitor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,737 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00059 $0.01737
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00174

Measured 5d ago against content hash f44f16931d65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab:ci-monitor 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/watch.test.ts, scripts/watch.ts), 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.

plugins/gitlab/skills/ci-monitor/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI Monitor

Watch a GitLab pipeline (for an MR, a branch, or a specific pipeline ID), reacting to failures by dispatching the gitlab:logs agent for diagnostics. Exits cleanly when the pipeline is green, the MR is closed, a pipeline-id target reaches a terminal status, or the wall-clock cap is hit.

Target

$ARGUMENTS

Accepts an MR URL, a branch name, a pipeline ID, or derives one from the current branch:

  • MR mode: pass a URL like https://gitlab.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123.
  • Branch mode: pass a branch name (e.g. main, a release branch). Project path group/project is inferred from git remote get-url origin in the current directory; pass --project <group/project> to override.
  • Pipeline-id mode: pass a pipeline ID (e.g. from a manually-triggered pipeline or a re-run). Project is inferred from the git remote; override with --project <group/project>.
  • No argument: derive an MR URL from the current branch: glab mr view --output json | jq -r '.web_url'.

Workflow

Start the monitor

Launch the watch script via the Monitor tool with persistent: true:

  • MR mode: bun ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/watch.ts --mr <mr-url>
  • Branch mode: bun ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/watch.ts --branch <name> [--project <group/project>]
  • Pipeline-id mode: bun ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/watch.ts --pipeline-id <id> [--project <group/project>]
  • Optional flags: --interval <seconds>, --max-minutes <N>, --queued-timeout <minutes>, --api-error-threshold <N>.

Exactly one of --mr, --branch, or --pipeline-id is required. In branch and pipeline-id modes, --project is inferred from the current git remote when omitted. Pipeline-id mode queries glab api projects/:id/pipelines/:pid directly; if the pipeline does not exist the watcher exits non-zero on the first call.

MR mode resolves the pipeline from projects/:id/merge_requests/:iid/pipelines and branch mode from projects/:id/pipelines?ref=<branch>. Both ignore external pipelines (commit statuses posted by other tools, which carry no CI jobs) and parent_pipeline pipelines (children the parent already aggregates), and each prefers its own kind: merge_request_event in MR mode, branch pipelines in branch mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago Changed · -1 lines f44f16931d65
  2. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 3e77e47e75ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab:ci-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,737 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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