glab-skills

glab-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitLab CLI tool for installing and maintaining bundled agent skills. Agent skills are instruction packages that teach compatible coding agents how to handle particular tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
List, install, and update GitLab’s bundled skills. The feature is experimental and may change or be unavailable in some glab versions.
Why use it?
It provides commands for checking which bundled skills exist and keeping installed skills current.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit List, install, and update GitLab’s bundled skills. The feature is experimental and may change or be unavailable in some glab versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills/glab-skills
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-skills
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 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,865 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 $0.00079 $0.02865
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01146
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00286

Measured 9d ago against content hash b7801d5bcd52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glab-skills 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 9d 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-skills/SKILL.md · 323 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

glab skills

Overview

Help captured from the checksum-verified macOS arm64 release binary. Terminal padding and trailing whitespace are removed; release provenance is recorded in VERSION.


  Install the bundled glab agent skills so that AI agents can discover
  and use glab effectively.

  Skills follow the Agent Skills specification and work with
  any compatible agent, including GitLab Duo Agent Platform, Claude Code, Codex,
  and Gemini CLI.

  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 skills <command> [command] [--flags]

  COMMANDS

    get <name> [<path>]       Print a bundled agent skill file. (EXPERIMENTAL)
    install [name] [--flags]  Install glab's bundled agent skills. (EXPERIMENTAL)
    list                      List the available bundled agent skills. (EXPERIMENTAL)
    update [name] [--flags]   Update installed agent skills to the current shipped version. (EXPERIMENTAL)

  FLAGS

    -h --help                 Show help for this command.

⚠️ Experimental Feature

glab skills is marked EXPERIMENTAL upstream:

  • command shape and functionality may change
  • skill bundle format is not yet stable
  • availability may vary by glab version
  • use for exploration and prototyping, not production workflows

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

Quick start

# View available skills commands
glab skills --help

# Inspect a bundled skill without installing it
glab skills get glab

# Install bundled agent skills
glab skills install

# List bundled skills
glab skills list

# Update the installed core skill to the current glab-shipped version
glab skills update glab

Common workflows

Inspecting, installing, listing, and updating bundled skills

# Print the bundled skill manifest without installing it
glab skills get glab

# Print a supporting file relative to a bundled skill root
glab skills get <name> references/<file>.md

# Install agent skills interactively
glab skills install

# Install a named bundled skill when supported by the shipped catalog
glab skills install <name>

# List available bundled skills
glab skills list

# Update all installed skills, including curated remote skills
glab skills update --all

# Update one installed skill (bundled or curated remote)
glab skills update <name>

Read the full file on GitHub · 323 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. 9d ago Changed b7801d5bcd52
  2. 16d ago Changed · +39 lines · +3 tokens per session 07424736c3b8
  3. 23d ago Changed · +166 lines · +9 tokens per session 8f3ef8e69c49
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 118 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 41c63b7cb73e

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glab-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills (49 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,865 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.