# mcp-gitlab MCP Server

MCP server for GitLab API — projects, MRs, pipelines, CI/CD, approvals, issues, code review.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `mcp-gitlab` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**11 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 8.

### Most discussed

### feat: accept full GitLab URLs in tool project_id params

## Problem

Tools require `project_id` (numeric ID or path) and `mr_iid` as separate params. Users often have the full GitLab URL and must manually extract these values.

## Current state

- `_parse_gitlab_mr_url()` and `_parse_gitlab_pipeline_url()` exist in `servers/_helpers.py`
- Prompts already use them to accept full URLs
- Tools do not — they only accept raw IDs/paths

## Proposal

Add URL parsing to tools that accept `project_id` + entity IID params. When `project_id` matches a GitLab URL

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/42) · 2026-03-03 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: startup logging + 8 missing MR tools (approve, pipelines, commits)

## Summary

Two features in one issue:

1. **Startup logging** — Log server name, version, and config at startup (applies to all 3 MCP repos: mcp-gitlab, mcp-atlassian-extended, mcp-coda)
2. **Missing MR tools** — Add 8 merge request tools that are currently missing from mcp-gitlab

## Part 1: Startup Logging (all 3 repos)

All 3 MCP servers start silently. When multiple servers launch concurrently, there's no way to confirm which started, what version, or what config was loaded.

**Change:** Ad

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/40) · 2026-03-02 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: add protected environments API support

## Summary

GitLab exposes protected environments via the REST API ([docs](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/protected_environments.html)), but the MCP server has no tools for managing them.

## Requested Tools

| Tool | API Endpoint | Description |
|------|-------------|-------------|
| `gitlab_list_protected_environments` | `GET /projects/:id/protected_environments` | List all protected environments |
| `gitlab_get_protected_environment` | `GET /projects/:id/protected_environments/:name` | Get a 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/39) · 2026-03-02 · open · 0 comments

### API gap coverage: 40 missing GitLab API endpoints

## Summary

Gap analysis against GitLab REST API v4 identified 40 tools worth adding across 3 priority tiers. Current tool count: 76.

## HIGH Priority (14 tools)

These are blocking for common AI assistant workflows:

| # | Gap | API Endpoint | Tools to Add |
|---|-----|-------------|-------------|
| 1 | **Approve/Unapprove MR** | `POST .../approve`, `POST .../unapprove` | `gitlab_approve_mr`, `gitlab_unapprove_mr` |
| 2 | **Current user** | `GET /user` | `gitlab_get_current_user` |
| 3 | **Sea

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/35) · 2026-02-27 · open · 0 comments

### feat: support additional token env var aliases

## Problem

Different tools and CI environments use different naming conventions for GitLab tokens:
- `GITLAB_TOKEN` (current)
- `GITLAB_PAT` (current)
- `GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` (used by GitLab CI, some Docker images)
- `GITLAB_API_TOKEN` (used by some CI/CD tools)

Only the first two are supported today. Users coming from other tools may expect the others to work.

## Proposal

Add fallback support in `config.py` so the token resolution chain becomes:

```python
token = (
    os.getenv("

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/25) · 2026-02-24 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### Improve tool descriptions for 72 remaining tools

## Context

PR #13 (MCP compliance) improved descriptions on 4 high-frequency tools to front-load return value information:
- `gitlab_get_mr` — now states it returns title, state, branches, author, diff_refs
- `gitlab_list_pipelines` — now states it returns id, status, ref, source, created_at
- `gitlab_mr_changes` — now states it returns diffs with old/new paths and content
- `gitlab_list_mr_discussions` — now states it returns discussion threads excluding system notes

The remaining 72 tools st

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/14) · 2026-02-23 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: Add Homebrew tap support for mcp-gitlab

## Summary

Add Homebrew tap support so users can install mcp-gitlab via `brew install vish288/tap/mcp-gitlab` instead of requiring `uvx` or `pip install`.

## Motivation

- Homebrew is the standard package manager on macOS — brew taps integrate with the existing developer workflow
- `uvx mcp-gitlab` requires uv to be installed; `pip install` has global env pollution concerns
- A brew formula with proper dependency pinning provides reproducible installs
- Aligns with the distribution pattern use

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/12) · 2026-02-23 · open · 0 comments

### Add one-click install badges for VS Code and Windsurf

## Summary

The README currently has a Cursor one-click install badge and a Claude Code CLI command, but VS Code and Windsurf only show a manual JSON config block.

## Changes

- Add VS Code one-click install badge using `vscode:mcp/install` deeplink
- Split Windsurf and VS Code into separate sections with their own install methods
- Add VS Code Insiders badge variant

## References

- [VS Code MCP install handler docs](https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/ai/mcp)
- [vscodemcp.com 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vish288/mcp-gitlab/issues/1) · 2026-02-22 · closed · 0 comments

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