gitlab-cli

gitlab-cli is a skill for Claude Code from GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code. It costs 21 tokens per session (642 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A helper for GitLab's `glab` command-line tool, covering merge requests, issues, CI/CD, and repository operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view or merge merge requests, manage issues, check pipelines and jobs, and inspect repositories.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a documented way to inspect and manage GitLab work from the terminal, provided `glab` is installed and authenticated.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the essentials plugin — 5 skills, 25 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to view or merge merge requests, manage issues, check pipelines and jobs, and inspect repositories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/gitlab-cli
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 GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code --skill gitlab-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install essentials, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 25 commands, 8 agents.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 642 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.
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 $0.00021 $0.00642
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00257
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b881b78837bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-cli 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.

essentials/skills/gitlab-cli/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitLab CLI helper skill for common glab operations. Requires glab CLI installed and authenticated.

Note: For creating/updating MR descriptions, use /mr-description-creator instead.

Actions

MR Operations

View MR status:

/gitlab-cli mr status

View MR in browser:

/gitlab-cli mr view --web

List MRs:

/gitlab-cli mr list

Merge MR:

/gitlab-cli mr merge

Issue Operations

List issues:

/gitlab-cli issue list

Create issue:

/gitlab-cli issue create

View issue:

/gitlab-cli issue view <number>

CI/CD Operations

View CI status:

/gitlab-cli ci status

View pipeline:

/gitlab-cli ci view

List jobs:

/gitlab-cli job list

Repository Operations

View repo:

/gitlab-cli repo view

Instructions

Step 1: Validate Environment

# Check glab is installed
glab --version

# Check glab is authenticated
glab auth status

If not installed, report: "Install glab CLI: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli" If not authenticated, report: "Run: glab auth login"

Step 2: Parse and Execute

Parse $ARGUMENTS and pass directly to glab:

glab $ARGUMENTS

Step 3: Report Result

Show glab output directly to user.

Examples

# View MR status
/gitlab-cli mr status

# View MR in browser
/gitlab-cli mr view --web

# List open MRs
/gitlab-cli mr list

# Merge current MR
/gitlab-cli mr merge

# List issues
/gitlab-cli issue list

# Create issue interactively
/gitlab-cli issue create

# View repo info
/gitlab-cli repo view

# View CI status
/gitlab-cli ci status

# View pipeline
/gitlab-cli ci view

# List jobs
/gitlab-cli job list

# API calls
/gitlab-cli api projects/:id/merge_requests

# Any glab command works
/gitlab-cli release list
/gitlab-cli label list

Error Handling

Scenario Action
glab not installed "Install glab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli"
Not authenticated "Run: glab auth login"
glab command fails Show glab error output

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A b881b78837bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (90 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 642 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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