gitlab-work-items

gitlab-work-items is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from structured-world/gitlab-mcp. It costs 52 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A GitLab work-item assistant for finding, reading, creating, and updating issues and other tracked tasks. Work items are records used to plan and track work in a project or group.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage project issues, tasks, epics, labels, milestones, assignees, and other supported GitLab work items.
Why use it?
It checks the available item types, permissions, and existing records before changing anything. This reduces duplicate tasks and prevents publishing a brainstorm when the user only asked for ideas.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to manage project issues, tasks, epics, labels, milestones, assignees, and other supported GitLab work items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/structured-world/gitlab-mcp/gitlab-work-items
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add structured-world/gitlab-mcp --skill gitlab-work-items
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/structured-world/gitlab-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 432 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 $0.00052 $0.00432
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00173
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4eef32606085, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-work-items 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 4d 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.

packages/gitlab-mcp/skills/gitlab-work-items/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Work with GitLab work items

Use the selected connection and verified namespace. The server handles GraphQL work-item type discovery; do not hardcode GitLab type IDs or call a separate REST issues endpoint. Inspect the advertised schema because type availability depends on the instance.

  1. Find existing items before creating one: browse_work_items, {"action":"list","namespace":"example-group/backend","types":["ISSUE"],"state":["OPEN"],"first":20}. Use returned pagination cursors for relevant additional pages.
  2. Read details with {"action":"get","id":"returned-work-item-id"}. Reuse returned IDs for updates and follow-ups, including IDs of labels, milestones and assignees; do not invent them.
  3. Use a project namespace for issues/tasks and a group namespace for epics. Existing scope and permissions apply at both levels. Report unavailable types/actions instead of substituting a different item type.
  4. When the user asks to publish a concrete task, create it with manage_work_item, for example {"action":"create","namespace":"example-group/backend","workItemType":"ISSUE","title":"Add connection diagnostics","description":"Problem, implementation and acceptance criteria"}. Write a single actionable plan with the requested scope, useful validation and dependencies. Exclude secrets, private planning identifiers and unsupported estimates.
  5. For a requested update, inspect the current item and apply the specific fields using update and the returned ID. Verify the persisted result with get and report its link. Delete/close/link only when requested.

An empty successful listing is distinct from an authorization error. A submitted mutation with a timeout has an unknown outcome: reconcile using the returned ID or a narrow listing before retrying. Do not bypass read-only policy, switch accounts or request credentials to complete an unauthorized write.

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. 4d ago First seen · 17 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 4eef32606085

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gitlab-work-items is a skill published in the GitHub repository structured-world/gitlab-mcp (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 432 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 2026-10-10.