GitLab MCP Server MCP Server

Go MCP server for GitLab: 2 dynamic tools reach 1000+ REST/GraphQL actions. Free/CE, no paid tier.

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Pod connected to GitLab MCP Server on 2026-09-05. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 8142ms.

Why the tool list is not verified

GitLab MCP Server refuses an anonymous tools/list, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.

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Published as https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.7.5/gitlab-mcp-server-linux-arm64 on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.7.5/gitlab-mcp-server-darwin-arm64 on mcpb. Runs locally.

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.jmrp.io/gitlab, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitlab-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.jmrp.io/gitlab"
    }
  }
}

Published as https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.7.5/gitlab-mcp-server-linux-amd64 on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.7.5/gitlab-mcp-server-windows-amd64.exe on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.7.5/gitlab-mcp-server-darwin-amd64 on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as https://github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/releases/download/v2.7.5/gitlab-mcp-server-windows-arm64.exe on mcpb. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

12 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 9.

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A rejected GraphQL document is reported to the model as an empty result, and five tools are in that state today

A GraphQL document this server sends can be rejected by GitLab and the caller is told the project has nothing, not that the question was malformed. Two registered tools are in that state today, and one of them reports on vulnerabilities.

The mechanism

GitLab answers a document that fails validation with HTTP 200, data: null and a top-level errors array. client-go's GraphQL.Do only builds a GraphQLResponseError when the underlying HTTP call itself returned an error…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · closed · 3 comments

GraphQL mocks answer what GitLab would refuse, so four broken documents shipped with green tests

Our GraphQL tests cannot fail for the reason that matters. Every domain test answers the request from an httptest handler that returns whatever the test wrote, so the document itself is never judged by anything. GitLab is the only party that would refuse it, and no test ever asks GitLab.

That is not a theoretical gap. I posted all 30 raw GraphQL documents this server sends to https://gitlab.com/api/graphql and four are rejected outright, so four registered tools cannot work on any current…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · closed · 1 comment

cmd/server's stdio shutdown test hangs the Windows suite for thirty minutes, intermittently

The 🖥️ Cross-platform (windows-latest) job fails by timing out the whole cmd/server package, not by an assertion. The panic names what was still running:

panic: test timed out after 30m0s
	running tests:
		TestServeStdio_TheTwoDocumentedShutdowns_ExitCleanly (29m29s)
		TestServeStdio_TheTwoDocumentedShutdowns_ExitCleanly/a_signal_cancels_the_context (29m29s)
FAIL	github.com/jmrplens/gitlab-mcp-server/v2/cmd/server	1800s

Every other test in the package is then reported as failed…

Read the thread · 2026-09-08 · open · 0 comments

A blocked address is refused before its credential is read, so one token sprayer behind a shared IP cuts off every legitimate neighbour

In HTTP mode an address is refused before its credential is read, so a client spraying invalid tokens from behind a shared public IP takes every legitimate neighbour down with it. cmd/server/auth_gate.go:449 checks blockedByBudget first and only then extracts the token; bearer_guard.go does the same in OAuth mode. The budget is authFailureLimit, ten failed authentications per address inside authFailureWindow, one minute, and the block answers 429 to everything from that address for…

Read the thread · 2026-09-08 · open · 0 comments

Read-only and safe mode reach the tools outside the catalog only inside cmd/server, so the evaluator and the suite keep their real handlers

Read-only mode, safe mode, the token-scope narrowing and --exclude-tools act in two places. The catalog-backed tools receive them per action from FilterActionCatalog, inside the catalog that every assembler shares. The tools registered outside the catalog receive them from applyToolVisibilityConfig at cmd/server/main.go:2048, a pass that runs after registration over the tools the server holds: it removes the names --exclude-tools lists, removes what the token's scopes cannot call…

Read the thread · 2026-09-08 · open · 0 comments

Most recent

Eight GraphQL domains advertise backward pagination and silently discard it

toolutil.GraphQLPaginationInput offers a model four cursor parameters and describes two of them as backward pagination:

Last   *int   `json:"last,omitempty"   jsonschema:"Number of items from the end (backward pagination)"`
Before string `json:"before,omitempty" jsonschema:"Cursor for backward pagination (from previous response start_cursor)"`

Variables() duly puts them in the variables map. But not one of the eight domains that use the helper declares $before or $last in…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · closed · 0 comments

Pool eviction can take a subscribed credential, and what that costs an attacker is undocumented

When the pool is at --max-http-clients and a new credential arrives, lruVictimLocked walks the LRU from the tail looking for an entry that WithInUse does not report as busy, and returns the tail anyway when every entry is busy. Eviction is not gentle: dropEntry fires WithOnEvict under the pool's write lock, the credential's session IDs stop being accepted at once, and on another goroutine its watchers stop, its subscriptions/listen streams are cancelled and the sessions no…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · closed · 0 comments

The integration read path drifted from the shared renderer, so a titleless integration reads as an empty heading

internal/tools/integrations/markdown.go renders a single integration twice, from two places that were once the same code and no longer are.

formatIntegrationItemString, which the set and upsert paths use, writes its heading as fallback(i.Title, i.Slug): an integration whose title is empty is named by its slug. formatGetMarkdownString, which gitlab_get_integration uses, writes i.Title raw. The rest of the two bodies is line for line identical: the id, the slug, the active badge, the…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · open · 0 comments

Two markdown formatters register for one type, so a runner authentication token renders as a registration token

internal/tools/runners/markdown.go registers two formatters for the same Go type:

toolutil.RegisterMarkdown(FormatAuthTokenMarkdown) // func(AuthTokenOutput) string
toolutil.RegisterMarkdown(FormatRegTokenMarkdown)  // func(AuthTokenOutput) string

RegisterMarkdown keys a sync.Map on reflect.TypeOf and calls Store, so the second registration replaces the first. Every value of that type therefore renders through FormatRegTokenMarkdown, and the result of resetting a…

Read the thread · 2026-09-06 · open · 0 comments

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