glab-mcp

glab-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (410 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An experimental Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for GitLab. It lets AI assistants use selected GitLab commands to work with projects, issues, merge requests, and pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting the GitLab MCP server with stdio communication, so an AI assistant can access supported GitLab resources and commands.
Why use it?
It gives an AI assistant a structured way to interact with GitLab instead of relying on manual copying between tools. It is not intended for production use and may be unstable or removed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Starting the GitLab MCP server with stdio communication, so an AI assistant can access supported GitLab resources and commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills/glab-mcp
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-mcp
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 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 410 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 $0.00081 $0.00410
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00041

Measured 8d ago against content hash 01f4352e4eed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glab-mcp 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 8d 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.

glab-mcp/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

glab mcp

Overview


  Manage Model Context Protocol server features for GitLab integration.
  The MCP server exposes GitLab features as tools for use by
  AI assistants (like Claude Code) to interact with GitLab projects, issues,
  merge requests, pipelines, and other resources.
  This feature is an experiment and is not ready for production use.
  It might be unstable or removed at any time.
  For more information, see
  https://docs.gitlab.com/policy/development_stages_support/.
  USAGE
    glab mcp <command> [command] [--flags]
  EXAMPLES
    $ glab mcp serve
  COMMANDS
    serve      Start a MCP server with stdio transport. (EXPERIMENTAL)
  FLAGS
    -h --help  Show help for this command.

Quick start

glab mcp --help

Current behavior

Auto-enabled JSON output

glab mcp serve automatically enables JSON output format when running — no manual flag needed. This improves parsing reliability for AI assistants consuming the MCP server's tool responses.

Unannotated commands excluded

Commands that lack MCP annotations are not registered as MCP tools. This means only explicitly supported commands are exposed to AI assistants, reducing noise and improving reliability. If a GitLab operation you expect isn't available as an MCP tool, it may lack MCP annotations.

Subcommands

See references/commands.md for full --help output.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 47 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 01f4352e4eed

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glab-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills (47 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 410 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.