gitlab-search

gitlab-search is a skill for Claude Code from grandcamel/GitLab-Assistant-Skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of commands for searching GitLab projects, code, issues, merge requests, commits, users, and wiki pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search GitLab globally or within a project or group for code, discussions, changes, documentation, people, or repositories.
Why use it?
It helps locate information across GitLab when you do not know which project or file contains it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the gitlab-assistant-skills plugin — 19 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to search GitLab globally or within a project or group…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grandcamel/gitlab-assistant-skills/gitlab-search
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 grandcamel/GitLab-Assistant-Skills --skill gitlab-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grandcamel/GitLab-Assistant-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gitlab-assistant-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 3 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,672 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 $0.00061 $0.02672
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01336
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00267

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8ab909734b89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-search 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 6d 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.

skills/gitlab-search/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search Skill

Search operations for GitLab using glab api raw endpoint calls.

Quick Reference

Operation Command Pattern Risk
Search projects glab api "search?scope=projects&search=..." -
Search issues glab api "search?scope=issues&search=..." -
Search MRs glab api "search?scope=merge_requests&search=..." -
Search code glab api "search?scope=blobs&search=..." -
Search commits glab api "search?scope=commits&search=..." -
Search users glab api "search?scope=users&search=..." -
Search wiki glab api "search?scope=wiki_blobs&search=..." -
Project search glab api "projects/:id/search?scope=...&search=..." -
Group search glab api "groups/:id/search?scope=...&search=..." -

Risk Legend: - Safe | ⚠️ Caution | ⚠️⚠️ Warning | ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Danger

When to Use This Skill

ALWAYS use when:

  • User wants to search or find something across GitLab
  • User mentions "search", "find", "query", "look for"
  • User asks "where is", "which project has", "find all"
  • User wants to search code, issues, MRs, commits, or wikis

NEVER use when:

  • User wants to list all items (use specific skill: gitlab-issue, gitlab-mr, etc.)
  • User knows the exact project/issue/MR ID
  • User wants to search local files (use grep/find locally)

API Prerequisites

Required Token Scopes: read_api or api

Note: Search results are limited to resources the authenticated user can access.

Search Scopes

Scope Description Available At
projects Search project names/descriptions Global, Group
issues Search issue titles/descriptions Global, Group, Project
merge_requests Search MR titles/descriptions Global, Group, Project
milestones Search milestone titles Global, Group, Project
snippet_titles Search snippet titles Global
wiki_blobs Search wiki content Global, Group, Project
commits Search commit messages Global, Group, Project
blobs Search code/file content Global, Group, Project
notes Search comments Global, Group, Project
users Search usernames/names Global

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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. 6d ago First seen · 303 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 8ab909734b89

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gitlab-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository grandcamel/GitLab-Assistant-Skills (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,672 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 2026-08-31.