# GitLab

> Use this tool when you need to integrate with self-hosted GitLab instances to manage users, projects, issues, and repositories. It solves problems related to version control, project management, and collaboration by providing 87 tools through the REST API v4 interface. Ideal for use with GitLab versions prior to official MCP support, it accepts API requests as input and returns optimized responses as output.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/sean2077-gitlab  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/sean2077-gitlab

## Description

Integrates with self-hosted GitLab instances (v18.2.0+) via REST API v4, providing 87 tools across users, projects, issues, merge requests, repositories, pipelines, groups, and wikis. Includes automatic retry logic for rate-limiting and optimized response sizes. Designed for GitLab versions before official MCP support was introduced.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** version-control
- **Updated:** 2026-04-25

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/sean2077-gitlab)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/sean2077/gitlab-mcp-server>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "sean2077-gitlab"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/sean2077-gitlab` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/sean2077-gitlab/pull`

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