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gitlab-mcp MCP Server

GitLab MCP server for projects, merge requests, issues, pipelines, wiki, releases, and more.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

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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.

Firsthand observations

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