GitLab Management
GitLab merge-request workflow agent skill and Go CLI (gitlab-mgmt): MR reads, manual pipeline jobs, guarded writes, per-host auth.
skill-gitlab-management
GitLab merge request workflow skill for Codex and Claude Code, built around the Go-based gitlab-mgmt CLI. It covers MR status/review reads, manual pipeline jobs, guarded write actions, and an explicit per-host auth/config layer for GitLab tokens.
What It Covers
- per-host GitLab auth bootstrap through
gitlab-mgmt auth * - global auth config under
os.UserConfigDir()/gitlab-mgmt/auth.json - token storage modes:
keychainon macOS by default,envelsewhere by default - MR status reads with pipeline and failed-job summaries
- review context, unresolved discussions, and changed-file summaries
- manual pipeline job discovery and execution
- MR create, approve, and merge wrappers
- project MR lists with author/assignee/reviewer filters and
--mine
Layout
SKILL.md: agent instructions and workflowcmd/gitlab-mgmt: CLI entrypointinternal/config: auth/config resolver and storage-mode logicinternal/gitlabmgmt: MR workflow implementationinternal/install: repo-local skill install/runtime packagingscripts/setup.sh: canonical source-repo setup/install entrypointscripts/bootstrap_runtime.sh: committed runtime bootstrapscripts/gitlab-mgmt,scripts/gitlab-mgmt.cmd: thin wrappers that execute the built Go CLIreferences/: compact CLI/auth/review referencestestsare now Go tests underinternal/.../*_test.go
Prerequisites
- Go (for building and bootstrapping the CLI/runtime)
- glab (GitLab CLI transport)
gitlab-mgmt resolves tokens itself and injects them into glab via environment variables. It no longer depends on glab auth login state.
Setup
Refresh the local binary plus the installed skill artifact:
./scripts/setup.sh --install-only
Install the skill into one repository-local runtime and bootstrap it immediately:
./scripts/setup.sh --project-dir /abs/path/to/repo --locale ru-en
This flow:
- builds
gitlab-mgmt - installs
gitlab-mgmtinto~/.local/bin/gitlab-mgmt - refreshes the installed skill artifact under
~/.agents/skills/skill-gitlab-management - symlinks the installed skill into
~/.claude/skills/and~/.codex/skills/ - optionally installs the committed runtime into
<repo>/.agents/skills/skill-gitlab-management - bootstraps that committed runtime via
make skill
The install state for the source checkout is stored in ~/.config/gitlab-mgmt/install.json.
Runtime Bootstrap
Inside a committed runtime copy, the supported bootstrap entrypoint is:
make -C <repo>/.agents/skills/skill-gitlab-management skill
That builds the local gitlab-mgmt binary inside the runtime copy and runs gitlab-mgmt doctor.
Auth Model
The tool stores host profiles in the global config file:
- macOS example:
~/Library/Application Support/gitlab-mgmt/auth.json - Linux example:
~/.config/gitlab-mgmt/auth.json
Inspect the actual path on the current machine:
gitlab-mgmt auth config-path
Bootstrap a host profile:
gitlab-mgmt auth bootstrap https://gitlab.example.com/
gitlab-mgmt auth bootstrap https://gitlab.example.com/ --source env
gitlab-mgmt auth bootstrap https://gitlab.example.com/ --source keychain
Bootstrap writes placeholders into the global config and storage target:
envmode stores the environment variable name that should contain the PATkeychainmode stores the Keychain service/account identity and creates a placeholder Keychain item at that slot
Fill the secret according to the selected source:
gitlab-mgmt auth set-token https://gitlab.example.com/
auth set-token prompts for the PAT and replaces the bootstrapped Keychain placeholder. For env profiles, set the configured env var instead.
Inspect local resolution state without printing the secret:
gitlab-mgmt auth resolve https://gitlab.example.com/
gitlab-mgmt auth whoami https://gitlab.example.com/
gitlab-mgmt auth whoami https://gitlab.example.com/ --check=false
Verify a host or MR target before real work:
gitlab-mgmt auth ensure https://gitlab.example.com/
gitlab-mgmt auth ensure-mr https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
Usage Examples
gitlab-mgmt mr status https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
gitlab-mgmt mr review-context https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
gitlab-mgmt mr list --repo group/project --hostname gitlab.example.com --mine
gitlab-mgmt mr manual-jobs https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
gitlab-mgmt mr run-manual deploy-staging --mr https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
gitlab-mgmt mr create --fill
gitlab-mgmt mr approve https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
gitlab-mgmt mr merge https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123
Agent-Facing Query DSL
For token-efficient agent reads, gitlab-mgmt now exposes a q surface with batching and top-level presets:
gitlab-mgmt q 'schema()'
gitlab-mgmt q 'auth_resolve("https://gitlab.example.com/") { minimal }'
gitlab-mgmt q 'auth_whoami("https://gitlab.example.com/", check=false) { default }'
gitlab-mgmt q 'mr_list(repo="group/project", hostname="gitlab.example.com", mine=true) { default }'
gitlab-mgmt q 'mr_status("https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123") { default }'
gitlab-mgmt q 'mr_review_context("https://gitlab.example.com/group/project/-/merge_requests/123") { minimal }'
gitlab-mgmt q 'schema(); auth_resolve("https://gitlab.example.com/") { minimal }'
Supported operations today:
schema()auth_resolve(...)auth_whoami(...)mr_list(...)mr_status(...)mr_manual_jobs(...)mr_review_context(...)
The DSL is intentionally read-only. The regular mr and auth subcommands remain the write/operational surface.
Localization
Localization remains part of the install path. gitlab-mgmt install renders the installed SKILL.md and agents/openai.yaml using locales/metadata.json plus .skill_triggers/*.md, then produces a committed-safe runtime copy for the target repository.
About Relux Works
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