glab-issue

glab-issue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (2,439 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for managing GitLab issues, which are shared records for bugs, feature requests, and development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, view, update, comment on, assign, label, close, or reopen issues and manage issue boards.
Why use it?
It keeps issue tracking work in the terminal and makes it easier to filter, update, discuss, and close tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create, list, view, update, comment on, assign, label, close, or reopen issues and manage issue boards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills/glab-issue
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 vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills --skill glab-issue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,439 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 $0.00089 $0.02439
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00976
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00244

Measured 2d ago against content hash 93549285ed6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glab-issue 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/batch-label-issues.sh, scripts/create-mr-from-issue.sh), 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.

glab-issue/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

glab issue

Create, view, update, and manage GitLab issues.

Open-item selection

glab issue list defaults to open items. Omit the obsolete --opened flag; use --closed or --all for those scopes. This applies to the shared issue/incident list command, including its ls alias, and is separate from MR state selectors.

Template selection

For create --template, a bare name (with optional .md) resolves under the repository's .gitlab/issue_templates/ directory. An absolute path or a path containing a separator is read directly; relative paths use the current directory and ~/ is supported. Use ./template.md for a file in the current directory, rather than a bare template name. A missing template directory means no templates; other directory-listing failures are surfaced and should be repaired before retrying. Read and approve the file contents before posting them; --description-file remains mutually exclusive with --template.

Assignment, dates, and internal notes

issue list --assignee @none selects unassigned issues; --assignee @any selects assigned issues, while @me selects your issues. Date filters are --created-after, --created-before, --updated-after, and --updated-before, with RFC 3339 timestamps including the timezone. Group listing preserves --confidential and --iteration filters.

glab issue list --assignee @none --updated-after 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
glab issue note 123 --internal --message "Investigation details for project members"

--internal requests an internal note visible only to project members; confirm the target and audience before posting, and never include credentials. issue view displays human-readable time spent and estimated time when available; prefer JSON for automation.

Quick start

# Create an issue
glab issue create --title "Fix login bug" --label bug

# Create or update with a multi-line description from a file
glab issue create --title "Fix login bug" --description-file description.md
glab issue update 123 --description-file description.md

# Upload a screenshot and append its Markdown reference
glab issue create --title "Fix login bug" --description "See below." --attach ./repro.png
glab issue update 123 --attach ./after.png

# List open issues
glab issue list --state opened

# Stable machine-readable output
glab issue list --output json

# View issue details
glab issue view 123

# View or comment on an issue/work item from a GitLab URL
glab issue view https://gitlab.com/group/project/-/work_items/123

glab issue note https://gitlab.com/group/project/-/issues/123 -m "Working on this now"

# Add comment
glab issue note 123 -m "Working on this now"

# Close issue
glab issue close 123

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago Changed · +4 lines 93549285ed6c
  2. 9d ago Changed · +15 lines 83760420ba41
  3. 16d ago Changed · +16 lines 34aa769df61b
  4. 23d ago Changed · +5 lines 99d1588d6019
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines bd51ee85882b
  6. 2mo ago First seen · 186 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 449bdd556049

Subscribe to this mod's changes

glab-issue is a skill published in the GitHub repository vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills (49 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,439 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.