glab-orbit

glab-orbit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,730 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line interface for GitLab Orbit, an experimental knowledge graph service for discovering and querying connected GitLab information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Orbit availability, set it up for supported tools, inspect its schema and query language, run remote or local commands, and install or update its CLI.
Why use it?
It provides a terminal path to check access, learn the graph structure, and run Orbit commands with managed installation and authentication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills/glab-orbit
Any agent
npx skills add vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills --skill glab-orbit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,730 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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.01730
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00865
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00173

Measured 6d ago against content hash e0dfb27033f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glab-orbit 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 6d 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-orbit/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

glab orbit

Run the managed Orbit CLI for the GitLab Knowledge Graph (product name: Orbit) through glab.

glab orbit routes through the managed orbit-cli binary. glab downloads, verifies, and updates that binary on first use, then forwards commands and flags verbatim. glab orbit remote <command> injects the resolved GitLab credential; other Orbit commands run the managed binary without extra auth environment.

⚠️ Experimental Feature

Upstream marks Orbit as EXPERIMENTAL:

  • most command shape now belongs to the managed orbit-cli binary and may change independently
  • the API is gated behind the knowledge_graph feature flag
  • access is user-scoped, not project-scoped
  • glab orbit --install and glab orbit --update install or refresh the managed binary without running it

See: https://docs.gitlab.com/policy/development_stages_support/

Quick start

# First: confirm the service is available for your user; glab injects auth for remote commands
glab orbit remote status

# Guided onboarding through the Orbit binary
glab orbit setup claude

# Discover the graph model through orbit-cli
glab orbit remote schema
glab orbit remote dsl
glab orbit remote tools

# Install or update the managed binary without running a command
glab orbit --install
glab orbit --update

Use the Orbit binary's discovery-first flow:

  1. glab orbit setup claude or glab orbit remote status — verify Orbit is enabled and reachable
  2. glab orbit remote schema — inspect the ontology (entities, edges, properties)
  3. glab orbit remote dsl — inspect the authoritative JSON Schema for the query DSL
  4. glab orbit remote tools — inspect the MCP tool manifest when integrating with agents/tools
  5. glab orbit remote query ... — run actual graph queries once you know the schema

That order matters because schema and dsl are the source of truth for what the graph exposes and what request bodies are valid; tools is still useful for MCP/agent integration metadata.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 6d ago First seen · 208 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A e0dfb27033f9

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glab-orbit is a skill published in the GitHub repository vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills (47 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,730 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.

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