gitlab-mcp MCP Server
GitLab MCP server for projects, merge requests, issues, pipelines, wiki, releases, and more.
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Published as @zereight/mcp-gitlab on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
188 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.
Most discussed
Error when running /mcp in Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI Version: 0.1.12
Running the /mcp command works correctly, and it displays the following tool information:
GitLab communication server__create_branch
- GitLab communication server__create_issue
- GitLab communication server__create_issue_link
- GitLab communication server__create_issue_note
- GitLab communication server__create_label
- GitLab communication server__create_merge_request
- GitLab communication server__create_merge_request_note
- GitLab communicatio
Read the thread · 2025-07-17 · closed · external user · 12 comments
MCP not working with Gemini
Model: Gemini-2.0-flash
Running the MCP server locally on the main branch (version: 1.0.72)
"GitLab-comm-server": {
"type": "sse",
"url": "http://localhost:3002/sse"
}
I am using the Agno framework to connect to MCP
import asyncio
import os
from textwrap import dedent
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.google import Gemini
from agno.tools.mcp import MCPTools
server_url = "http://localhost:3002/sse"
async def run_agent(message: str) -> None:
async
[Read the thread](https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp/issues/166) · 2025-07-14 · closed · external user · 17 comments
### Issue Fetching isn't working anymore
Last week, I was using the MCP to fetch private GitLab issues but that's not working anymore.
<img width="962" height="513" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a58dcfc9-ede2-45ca-a129-c5aed343dc18" />
The issue I am trying to fetch is in a private repo but I obviously provided a correct PAT.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp/issues/157) · 2025-07-09 · closed · external user · 18 comments
### `remove_source_branch` in `create_merge_request` not working
⏺ Now I'll create the merge request using the GitLab API:
⏺ GitLab:create_merge_request (MCP)(project_id: "xxx", title: "xxx
xxx", description: "xxx", source_branch:
"xxx", target_branch: "main",
assignee_ids: [84], remove_source_branch: "true")
⎿ {
"id": 19248,
"iid": 12386,
Read the thread · 2025-07-07 · closed · external user · 22 comments
Possible to get working for Gemini Cli?
Have tried, doesnt seem to work
Read the thread · 2025-07-07 · closed · external user · 18 comments
Most recent
Environment lifecycle and pipeline triggers
Add environment update/delete/stop/stale-stop and project pipeline trigger CRUD plus trigger_pipeline.
Reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/environments/ and https://docs.gitlab.com/api/pipeline_triggers/
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
Deployment operations and approvals
Add deployment create/update/delete, deployment merge-request listing, and approve/reject plus approval inspection.
Reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/deployments/
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
Pipeline jobs DAG and lifecycle tools
Add job erase, job inputs, DAG/needs helpers, and wait_for_pipeline/wait_for_job polling helpers.
Reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/jobs/
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
Pipeline schedules and schedule variables
Add pipeline schedule CRUD, play, ownership transfer, triggered-pipeline listing, and schedule-variable CRUD.
Reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/pipeline_schedules/
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment
Pipeline core and reports API tools
Add the remaining pipeline core operations documented by GitLab: test report, test report summary, delete pipeline, and update pipeline metadata.
Reference: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/pipelines/
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
Feature: add GitLab Pipeline Schedules API tools
Summary
The server exposes 14 pipeline-related tools (list_pipelines, get_pipeline, create_pipeline, retry_pipeline, cancel_pipeline, the job tools, artifacts, …) but none of them cover the Pipeline Schedules API (/projects/:id/pipeline_schedules).
That means an agent can trigger and inspect ad-hoc pipelines, but cannot see or manage the scheduled ones — which is where a lot of a project's recurring CI actually lives (nigh
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
bug: list_merge_requests tool fails with schema validation error (expected record, received array)
Description
When calling the list_merge_requests tool, the GitLab MCP server fails with a schema validation error:
[
{
"expected": "record",
"code": "invalid_type",
"path": [
"structuredContent"
],
"message": "Invalid input: expected record, received array"
}
]
Root Cause
The GitLab REST API returns an array of merge request objects when listing merge requests (either globally or project-scoped). However, the MCP server's response schema def
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · external user · 1 comment
See all 24 reports Pod holds for gitlab-mcp — of 188 qualified upstream.
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