Glab

Wraps the official GitLab CLI so you can create merge requests, review code, manage issues, and monitor CI/CD pipelines without leaving your terminal. The skill covers the full workflow from authentication setup through common patterns like linking MRs to issues and using JSON output for scripting. What's useful here is the emphasis on verification steps (checking auth status, linting CI configs before pushing) and the explicit callout about pagination working through query parameters rather than flags, which trips people up with the API command. If you're doing GitLab work from the command line instead of the web UI, this gives you the patterns and gotchas in one place.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add henricook/claude-glab-skill --skill glab --agent claude-code

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GitLab CLI (glab) Skill

Provides guidance for using glab, the official GitLab CLI, to perform GitLab operations from the terminal.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke when the user needs to:

Create, review, or manage merge requests
Work with GitLab issues
Monitor or trigger CI/CD pipelines
Clone or manage repositories
Perform any GitLab operation from the command line

Prerequisites

Verify glab installation before executing commands:

glab --version

If not installed, inform the user and provide platform-specific installation guidance.

Authentication Quick Start

Most glab operations require authentication:

# Interactive authentication
glab auth login

# Check authentication status
glab auth status

# For self-hosted GitLab
glab auth login --hostname gitlab.example.org

# Using environment variables
export GITLAB_TOKEN=your-token
export GITLAB_HOST=gitlab.example.org  # for self-hosted

Core Workflows

Creating a Merge Request

# 1. Ensure branch is pushed
git push -u origin feature-branch

# 2. Create MR
glab mr create --title "Add feature" --description "Implements X"

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Details

Repository: github.com/henricook/claude-glab-skill
First seen: May 16, 2026