gitlab-cli-skills

Query the GitLab Knowledge Graph (Orbit) from the CLI. Use when discovering Orbit availability, inspecting schema/DSL/tools, running graph queries, or checking graph indexing status. Triggers on orbit, knowledge graph, graph query, orbit schema, orbit remote query, orbit dsl, orbit tools.

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, 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.

List and upload 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 generic package files, or using glab packages commands. Triggers on GitLab packages, package registry, glab packages, npm packages in GitLab, Maven packages in GitLab, generic package upload.

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.

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 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, 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 repositories and projects including clone, create, fork, archive, view, update, delete, search, transfer, and member management. Use when managing repo lifecycle, forking projects, cloning repositories, searching for projects, managing collaborators, or configuring repo settings. Triggers on repository, repo, project, clone, fork, create repo, search projects, collaborators.

Manage GitLab container registry repositories and tags with glab. Use when listing, viewing, or deleting container registry repositories/tags, cleaning old image tags, inspecting tag metadata, or using glab container-registry commands. Triggers on container registry, registry repository, registry tags, image tags, glab container-registry.

Manage stacked merge requests for complex multi-part changes. Use when creating dependent MRs, managing MR stacks, or working with multi-layer changes. Triggers on stack, stacked MRs, dependent MRs, MR stack, stacked changes.

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.

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.

Install, list, and update bundled agent skills for GitLab CLI. Use when installing agent skills, checking available bundled skills, updating installed glab skills, managing skill bundles, or setting up automated workflows. Triggers on skills, agent skills, glab skills, skill install, skill update, skill bundles.

View GitLab CLI release notes with glab whatsnew. Use when checking what changed after upgrading glab, reviewing release notes since a baseline version, or asking what's new in the GitLab CLI. Triggers on whatsnew, what's new, release notes, glab upgrade notes, glab changelog since.

Manage GitLab CLI authentication including login/logout, check auth status, switch accounts, and configure Docker registry access. Use when setting up glab for first time, troubleshooting auth issues, switching GitLab instances/accounts, or configuring Docker to pull from GitLab registry. Triggers on auth, login, logout, authentication, credentials, token, Docker registry.

Check for glab CLI updates and view latest version information. Use when checking if glab is up to date or finding available updates. Triggers on update glab, check version, glab version, CLI update.

Interact with GitLab Duo AI assistant for code suggestions and chat. Use when accessing AI-powered code assistance, getting code suggestions, or chatting with GitLab Duo. Triggers on Duo, AI assistant, code suggestions, AI chat.

Work with Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistant integration. Exposes GitLab features as tools for AI assistants (like Claude Code) to interact with projects, issues, merge requests, and pipelines. Use when integrating AI assistants with GitLab or working with MCP servers. Triggers on MCP, Model Context Protocol, AI assistant integration, glab mcp serve.

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.

Create, list, 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 delete.

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 SSH deploy keys for GitLab projects including add, list, and delete operations. Use when setting up deploy keys for CI/CD, managing read-only access, or configuring deployment authentication. Triggers on deploy key, SSH key, deployment key, read-only access.

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.

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.

Work with OpenTofu state management in GitLab. Use when managing Terraform/OpenTofu state, configuring state backends, or working with infrastructure as code. Triggers on OpenTofu, Terraform, state management, infrastructure as code, IaC.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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