gitlab-mcp-server: Skill for Claude Code

.github/skills/update-project-documentation/SKILL.md

update-project-documentation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for updating existing project documentation after source-code changes. It compares the implementation with documents in the docs directory and changes only the affected sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changing Go code, exported functions or types, public APIs, constants, or configuration. It helps identify which package guides and reference pages need updates.
Why use it?
It prevents documentation from becoming outdated while preserving its existing structure, writing style, and formatting. It also avoids rewriting documents that were not affected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on gitlab-mcp-server itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything gitlab-mcp-server configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/main/.github/skills/update-project-documentation/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,360 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 $0.00058 $0.02360
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00944
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00236

Measured today against content hash 06d860b5d3c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-project-documentation 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 today.

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.

.github/skills/update-project-documentation/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Project Documentation

Primary Directive

Update existing documentation to reflect current source code changes. Perform a delta analysis between the implementation and documentation, then surgically update only the affected sections while preserving the overall document structure, style, and formatting.

The documentation lives in two places, one per audience (ADR-0025):

  • User documentation is the site only: site/src/content/docs/ in English and its Spanish twin under site/src/content/docs/es/, published at https://docs.jmrp.io/gitlab-mcp-server/. An English page and its twin change together. Follow the update-starlight-docs skill for the page map, the generated pages and the site's checks.
  • Contributor documentation is docs/development/, plus CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and .github/ for the guidance AI assistants read. Beside docs/development/, docs/ holds only a README that points at the site.

Execution Context

This skill is triggered after code changes to ensure documentation stays in sync. It focuses on efficiency — only updating what has changed rather than regenerating entire documents.

Analysis Phase

Step 1: Identify Changed Code

  1. Check recent changes using git diff or by examining the files provided
  2. If no specific files are indicated, scan all Go source files for modifications
  3. Build a list of changed exported types, functions, constants, and configurations
  4. Identify new, modified, or removed public APIs

Step 2: Map Changes to Documentation

For each code change, identify which documentation files are affected:

Site pages are named by slug: operations/http-server is site/src/content/docs/operations/http-server.mdx and site/src/content/docs/es/operations/http-server.mdx.

Change Type Affected Documentation
New exported type/function Its godoc comment (make check-godocs), possibly the tools or resources pages of the site
Modified function signature Godoc comment, tools reference, examples
New MCP tool The site's per-domain tool reference, which is generated: run make gen-tool-reference (a new catalog group first needs its entry in cmd/gen_tool_reference/domains.json), make gen-site-stats for the counts the site prints and make gen-action-grants for the fine-grained table, which holds one row per action
New MCP resource or prompt Site page tools/resources-prompts; docs/development/architecture.md (Resources and prompts: where each lives)
Configuration change Site pages configuration, reference/environment and reference/cli, the variable and flag lists in docs/development/configuration.md and the summary table in CLAUDE.md, and the environment variable and flag tables in .github/copilot-instructions.md
New package The Project Structure of docs/development/development.md, the packages tables of docs/development/architecture.md and the project tree, one line per entry in CLAUDE.md and annotated in docs/development/repository-map.md; docs/development/cmd-utilities.md for a new cmd/ utility
Architecture change Site page architecture for what a user sees (transports, surfaces, security model), diagrams included; docs/development/architecture.md (packages, the path a call takes, handler patterns), docs/development/development.md and docs/development/tool-surfaces-and-action-core.md for how the code is put together
Error handling change Site pages operations/error-handling and operations/troubleshooting; docs/development/error-handling.md for the classification and wrapping functions
Capability change Site pages under capabilities/; docs/development/capabilities.md for the progress, elicitation and completion APIs and the icons
Build/deploy change docs/development/development.md, and docs/development/distribution.md for the bundles and the channel publishers; site pages under install/ and operations/remote-deployment
Removed API All referencing documents

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. today Changed 06d860b5d3c7
  2. yesterday Changed 0aae4a68c32e
  3. 6d ago Changed 24fb50321f36
  4. 7d ago Changed cac9d60e0c3e
  5. 16d ago Changed · +11 lines · +18 tokens per session 92e6b49f7318
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines c42550fecc77
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f95fd1aa0e74

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update-project-documentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server (46 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,360 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.