gitlab

Read and manage GitLab projects, issues, merge requests, and pipelines via the GitLab REST API. Use when the user asks about GitLab projects, issues, MRs, or pipelines.

SKILL.md

GitHub

GitLab (connected)

Token in $GITLAB_TOKEN, instance base in $GITLAB_URL. Talk to $GITLAB_URL/api/v4 with curl. Header: -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN".

  • Who am I: curl -s -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_URL/api/v4/user" | jq '{username}'
  • Your projects: curl -s -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_URL/api/v4/projects?membership=true&per_page=50" | jq '.[] | {id, path_with_namespace}'
  • Open issues: curl -s -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_URL/api/v4/projects/<ID>/issues?state=opened" | jq '.[] | {iid, title}'
  • Open merge requests: curl -s -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_URL/api/v4/projects/<ID>/merge_requests?state=opened" | jq '.[] | {iid, title}'
  • Recent pipelines: curl -s -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_URL/api/v4/projects/<ID>/pipelines?per_page=10" | jq '.[] | {id, status, ref}'
  • Create an issue: curl -s -X POST -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $GITLAB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_URL/api/v4/projects/<ID>/issues" --data-urlencode "title=..."

Git (clone / pull / push)

If this connection has git access enabled, https is credential-cached and ssh-form URLs work too (over a native SSH key when the token could register one, otherwise transparently rerouted over https), so git needs no per-command auth (host = $GITLAB_URL without the scheme):

  • Clone: git clone $GITLAB_URL/<GROUP>/<REPO>.git (ssh://git@<GITLAB_HOST>/<GROUP>/<REPO>.git works too).
  • Pull/push an existing repo (https or ssh clone): git -C <REPO> pull / git -C <REPO> push
  • If native SSH is active, ssh -T git@<GITLAB_HOST> greets you; if it isn't, ssh-form URLs still work over https.

Notes: <ID> is the numeric project id (from the projects list) or a URL-encoded path (group%2Frepo). Self-hosted works, $GITLAB_URL points at your instance.