glab-workitems

glab-workitems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line skill for managing GitLab work items, GitLab's broader planning records for tasks, OKRs, key results, epics, incidents, and test cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, list, update, and delete work items, including group-level epics and descriptions supplied from files.
Why use it?
It lets an agent handle these planning records directly instead of treating every item as a standard issue. The feature is marked experimental, so its commands may change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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-workitems
Any agent
npx skills add vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills --skill glab-workitems
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 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,751 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 $0.00080 $0.01751
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00175

Measured 5d ago against content hash 262c9b2d815f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glab-workitems 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 5d 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-workitems/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

glab work-items

Create, list, and delete GitLab work items — GitLab's unified work tracking model for tasks, OKRs, key results, epics, incidents, test cases, and related planning objects.

⚠️ Experimental Feature

glab work-items is still marked EXPERIMENTAL upstream:

  • command shape may still change
  • availability can differ by GitLab version / feature flags
  • some work item types are only meaningful at group scope
  • use glab issue for stable day-to-day issue workflows

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

Quick start

# List work items in the current project
glab work-items list

# Create a task in the current project
glab work-items create --type task --title "Follow up on flaky pipeline"

# Create or update with a multi-line description from a file
glab work-items create --type task --title "Follow up" --description-file description.md
glab work-items update 42 --description-file description.md

# Create a group-scoped epic
glab work-items create --type epic --group my-group --title "Platform rewrite"

Scope model

glab work-items uses repository context by default, then lets you override scope explicitly:

  • Current repo context → project work items in the checked-out repository
  • --repo owner/project → a different project
  • --group my-group → group/subgroup work items

This matters because some work item types are commonly project-scoped (task, issue, incident) while others often live at group scope (epic, objective, key_result).

Common workflows

List work items

# First 20 open work items in current project
glab work-items list

# Filter by type
glab work-items list --type epic --group gitlab-org
glab work-items list --type issue --repo gitlab-org/cli

# Closed or all states
glab work-items list --state closed --group gitlab-org
glab work-items list --state all --group gitlab-org

# Increase page size (max 100)
glab work-items list --per-page 50 --group gitlab-org

# Cursor-based pagination
glab work-items list --after "eyJpZCI6OTk5OX0" --group gitlab-org

# JSON output for automation
glab work-items list --output json --group gitlab-org

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 210 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 262c9b2d815f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

glab-workitems is a skill published in the GitHub repository vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills (47 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,751 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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