gitlab

A Python command-line tool for working with GitLab merge requests, pipelines, and job logs. GitLab is a platform for hosting code and running automated project checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect or update merge requests, read notes, inspect pipelines, and view job logs on GitLab.com or a self-hosted GitLab server.
Why use it?
GitLab work often requires switching between merge requests, pipeline results, and job output. This puts those tasks into one repository-local command-line workflow.

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/microsoft/hve-core/gitlab
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill gitlab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,476 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 $0.00014 $0.02476
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01238
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00248

Measured yesterday against content hash 1050858be902, 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 14 executable files (scripts/_gitlab_credentials.py, scripts/_gitlab_oauth.py, scripts/gitlab.py, …), 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.

.github/skills/project-planning/gitlab/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitLab Skill

Overview

Use this skill to inspect and update GitLab merge requests, notes, pipelines, and job logs against GitLab.com or self-managed GitLab instances.

This skill is the repository-local Python workflow for GitLab tasks. It is not the official GitLab MCP server integration surface.

This first hve-core implementation is Python-only. Run the CLI through python scripts/gitlab.py and prefer --fields for read operations to keep output concise.

Prerequisites

The skill requires Python 3.11 or later.

Set these environment variables before running any command:

Variable Required Example Purpose
GITLAB_URL Yes https://gitlab.com GitLab instance URL
GITLAB_AUTH_MODE Optional oauth oauth or explicit legacy-token compatibility mode
GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID OAuth Application ID Non-confidential OAuth application ID; no client secret
GITLAB_TOKEN Legacy mode glpat-... PAT accepted only with GITLAB_AUTH_MODE=legacy-token
GITLAB_PROFILE No default Named OAuth profile
GITLAB_TOKEN_STORE No path OAuth store override; parent must be owner-only on POSIX
GITLAB_ALLOW_INSECURE No 1 Permit explicit loopback HTTP development endpoints only
XDG_DATA_HOME No path POSIX data root used for the default OAuth store
LOCALAPPDATA No path Reserved Windows data root; OAuth persistence currently fails closed on Windows
GITLAB_PROJECT No group/project Project path or numeric project ID

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Files

What ships with it

57 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. yesterday First seen · 200 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 1050858be902

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,405 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,476 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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