GitLab

Category	Version Control
CLI	glab
Auth	OAuth (glab auth login)
Config	GITLAB_HOST (optional, for self-hosted)

What it does

Wraps the GitLab CLI (glab) to give CodeBuddy access to your GitLab projects. The agent can manage merge requests, issues, CI/CD pipelines, and more.

Prerequisites

Install and authenticate:

# macOS
brew install glab

# Linux
brew install glab  # or download from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli/-/releases

# Windows
winget install GLab.GLab

glab auth login

For self-hosted GitLab:

export GITLAB_HOST="https://gitlab.yourcompany.com"
glab auth login --hostname gitlab.yourcompany.com

Capabilities

• Merge requests — create, list, review, approve, merge
• Issues — create, list, assign, label, close
• CI/CD — trigger pipelines, view job logs, retry failed jobs
• Repos — clone, fork, view project settings
• Releases — create, list, download assets

Example prompts

• “Create a merge request from feature/auth to main”
• “Show all open MRs that need my review”
• “Retry the failed CI job on pipeline #1234”
• “List all issues labeled critical in this project”