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Comprehensive GitLab CLI (glab) command reference and workflows for all GitLab operations via terminal. Use when user mentions GitLab CLI, glab commands, GitLab automation, MR/issue management via CLI, CI/CD pipeline commands, Artifact Registry token exchange, repo operations, authentication setup, or any GitLab terminal operations. Routes to specialized sub-skills for auth, CI, MRs, issues, releases, repos, and 30+ other glab commands. Triggers on glab, GitLab CLI, GitLab commands, GitLab terminal, GitLab automation.

Create, view, manage, approve, and merge GitLab merge requests. Use when working with MRs: creating from branches/issues, reviewing, approving, adding comments, resolving discussion threads, checking out locally, viewing diffs, rebasing, merging, or managing state. Triggers on merge request, MR, pull request, PR, review, approve, merge, resolve thread.

Work with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, jobs, and artifacts. Use when checking pipeline status, viewing job logs, debugging CI failures, triggering manual jobs, downloading artifacts, validating .gitlab-ci.yml, or managing pipeline runs. Triggers on pipeline, CI/CD, job, build, deployment, artifact, pipeline status, failed build, CI logs.

Make direct GitLab REST API calls for advanced queries and operations not covered by other glab commands. Use when accessing GitLab API endpoints directly, making custom API requests, or fetching data in JSON format. Triggers on API call, REST API, GitLab API, JSON query, advanced query.

Create, view, update, and manage GitLab issues. Use when working with issue tracking, bug reports, feature requests, or task management. Operations include creating issues, listing with filters, viewing details, adding comments/notes, updating labels/assignees/milestones, closing/reopening, and board management. Triggers on issue, bug, task, ticket, feature request, list issues, create issue.

Work with individual CI/CD jobs including view, retry, cancel, trace logs, and download artifacts. Use when debugging job failures, viewing job logs, retrying jobs, or managing job execution. Triggers on job, CI job, job logs, retry job, job artifacts.

Manage GitLab releases including create, list, view, delete, download, and upload release assets. Use when publishing software versions, managing release notes, uploading binaries/artifacts, downloading release files, or viewing release history. Triggers on release, version, tag, publish release, release notes, download release.

Manage glab CLI configuration settings including defaults, preferences, and per-host settings. Use when configuring glab behavior, setting defaults, or viewing current configuration. Triggers on config, configuration, settings, glab settings, set default.

Manage GitLab CI/CD runners — list, assign, unassign, inspect recent jobs and managers, pause/unpause via update, and delete runners at project, group, or instance level. Use when viewing runner status, assigning runners to projects, checking what jobs a runner handled, seeing manager processes, temporarily pausing a runner, or removing a decommissioned runner. Triggers on runner, glab runner, list runners, assign runner, unassign runner, runner jobs, runner managers, pause runner, unpause runner, delete runner, CI runner.

Generate changelogs from GitLab releases, tags, and commits. Use when creating release notes, generating changelog files, or documenting version history. Triggers on changelog, release notes, version history, generate changelog.

Manage CI/CD variables at project and group level including create, update, import, export, list, and delete operations. Use when setting environment variables for pipelines, managing secrets, migrating variables, or configuring CI/CD variables. Triggers on variable, CI variable, environment variable, secrets, variable import, CI/CD config.

Deprecated glab MCP server compatibility guidance. For new AI assistant integrations use the GitLab MCP Server (https://docs.gitlab.com/user/modelcontextprotocol/mcpserver/) instead. Use this skill only when maintaining or migrating existing glab mcp serve integrations. Triggers on deprecated glab MCP, Model Context Protocol, glab mcp serve migration.

List, upload, download, and delete GitLab project package registry packages with glab. Use when inspecting packages, filtering GitLab package registry entries by package name/type, paginating package registry results, uploading or downloading generic package files, deleting packages, or using glab packages commands. Triggers on GitLab packages, package registry, glab packages, npm packages in GitLab, Maven packages in GitLab, generic package upload, generic package download, delete package.

Manage stacked merge requests for complex multi-part changes. Use when creating dependent MRs, reordering or syncing a stack, recovering a conflicted reorder, or deleting local stack metadata. Triggers on stack, stacked MRs, dependent MRs, MR stack, stacked changes, stack delete, stack reorder.

Check for updates to glab and installed glab-managed GitLab Duo CLI and Orbit binaries. Use when checking whether glab, Duo CLI, or Orbit is up to date or finding available updates. Triggers on update glab, check version, glab version, CLI update, Duo CLI update, orbit update.

Display help information for glab commands and subcommands. Use when learning glab commands, viewing command syntax, or getting usage examples. Triggers on help, command help, usage, glab help.

Create, list, update, and delete GitLab work items (tasks, OKRs, key results, epics, incidents, test cases). Use when working with GitLab's work item types beyond standard issues. Triggers on work items, work-items, tasks, OKRs, key results, epics, work item create, work item update, work item delete.

Manage GPG keys for commit signing including add, list, and delete operations. Use when setting up commit signing, managing GPG keys, or verifying signed commits. Triggers on GPG key, commit signing, signed commits, verify commits.

Use GitLab quick actions — text-based slash commands in comments, descriptions, and MR/issue bodies — via glab CLI. Quick actions execute automatically when saved. Multiple commands can be combined in one comment, making them powerful for batching state changes in a single API call. Triggers on quick actions, slash commands, batch update, /assign, /label, /merge, /approve, /close, /estimate.

Manage GitLab labels including create, list, update, and delete operations at project and group level. Use when organizing issues/MRs with labels, creating label taxonomies, or managing label colors/descriptions. Triggers on label, tag, issue label, create label, manage labels.

Create, list, and delete GitLab CLI command aliases and shortcuts. Use when creating custom glab commands, managing CLI shortcuts, or viewing existing aliases. Triggers on alias, shortcut, custom command, CLI alias.

Generate shell completion scripts for bash, zsh, fish, or PowerShell. Use when setting up glab autocompletion for your shell. Triggers on completion, autocomplete, shell completion, tab completion.

Manage GitLab incidents for issue tracking and incident management. Use when creating incidents, managing incident response, or linking incidents to issues. Triggers on incident, incident management, create incident, incident response.

Manage CI/CD pipeline schedules including create, list, update, delete, and run scheduled pipelines. Use when automating pipelines, setting up cron jobs, or managing scheduled builds. Triggers on schedule, scheduled pipeline, cron, pipeline schedule, automated build.

Install and run GitLab Duo CLI through glab in interactive or headless mode. Use when accessing GitLab Duo Agent Platform from the terminal, running a bounded headless goal, or managing the wrapped Duo CLI binary. Triggers on Duo, GitLab Duo CLI, glab duo cli, AI assistant, headless goal, autonomous coding.

Run the managed Orbit CLI through glab for remote graph queries and local code-graph workflows. Use when installing or updating Orbit, checking graph status, querying a remote Orbit graph, indexing or searching a local code graph, forwarding Orbit help, or troubleshooting managed-binary authentication. Triggers on orbit, knowledge graph, code graph, graph query, graph status, glab orbit, orbit-cli, orbit binary.

Manage project milestones including create, list, update, view, and close operations. Use when planning releases, tracking milestone progress, or organizing issues/MRs by milestone. Triggers on milestone, release planning, milestone progress, version milestone.

Create GitLab project or personal code snippets with glab. Use when sharing code or text as a new snippet from files or stdin. For viewing, editing, or deleting existing snippets, use the GitLab UI or the snippets API through glab api. Triggers on snippet, gist, code snippet, share code, create snippet.

Manage your GitLab to-do list from the CLI, including listing pending or completed items and marking items done. Use when reviewing assigned or mentioned work from GitLab notifications, clearing to-dos, or scripting to-do triage. Triggers on todo, to-do, notification list, mark done, assigned items, mentioned items.

Work with GitLab attestations for software supply chain security including artifact verification and provenance. Use when verifying software artifacts, managing attestations, or working with supply chain security. Triggers on attestation, verify artifact, provenance, supply chain security.

Manage GitLab iterations for project planning and sprint management. Use when creating iterations, assigning issues to sprints, or viewing iteration progress. Triggers on iteration, sprint, iteration planning, sprint planning.

Manage GitLab runner controllers and authentication tokens. Create, inspect, update, delete controllers; manage scopes; and generate, rotate, and revoke tokens. Admin-only experimental feature for managing runner controller lifecycle. Triggers on runner controller, controller token, controller scope, experimental runner, admin runner.

Manage SSH keys for GitLab account including add, list, and delete operations. Use when setting up SSH authentication, managing SSH keys, or configuring Git over SSH. Triggers on SSH key, add SSH key, SSH authentication, Git SSH.

Manage GitLab Kubernetes clusters and agent integrations. Use when connecting clusters, managing cluster agents, or working with Kubernetes integration. Triggers on cluster, Kubernetes, k8s, cluster agent, connect cluster.

Manage secure files for CI/CD including upload, update, download, list, and delete operations. Use when storing or replacing sensitive files for pipelines, managing certificates, or handling secure configuration files. Triggers on secure file, CI secrets, certificates, overwrite secure file, secure config.

Configure GitLab project security scan profiles with glab. Use when enabling, disabling, or checking GitLab security scan profiles such as SAST, dependency scanning, secret detection, container scanning, or dependency-scanning auto-remediation. Triggers on GitLab security config, security scan profile, enable SAST, dependency scanning, secret detection, glab security.

Check package URLs against GitLab Dependency Firewall, run supported package managers through it, and inspect local firewall activity with glab. Use when checking an npm, PyPI, Maven, or RubyGems PURL; enforcing dependency policy for supported package-manager wrappers; summarizing CI logs; or troubleshooting Dependency Firewall exit codes. Triggers on dependency firewall, glab df, glab dependency-firewall, package URL, PURL, package policy, ci-summary, blocked package, flagged package.

Exchange GitLab credentials for short-lived Artifact Registry tokens, verify token identity, and configure package-manager authentication with glab. Use when checking GitLab Artifact Registry access, obtaining an ephemeral registry token, or configuring Docker, Maven, Gradle, npm, Yarn, or sbt for a GitLab Artifact Registry. Triggers on artifact registry, glab artifact-registry, glab ar, get-token, token exchange, registry access status, artifact-registry login, Docker credential helper, Maven registry, Gradle registry, npm auth, sbt credentials.