GitLab DevOps — Repositories, Pipelines & Issue Tracking

A Complete DevOps Command Center

GitLab is the leading single-application DevOps platform, covering everything from source control and CI/CD to security scanning and monitoring. By connecting it to OpenClaw, your AI agent becomes a full-stack engineering assistant — it can read code, trigger pipelines, review merge requests, triage issues, and report deployment status without you ever leaving the chat window.

• Repository Management: Browse branches, read files, create commits, and open merge requests with AI-generated descriptions.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Trigger, monitor, and retry jobs. Receive instant alerts when a pipeline fails or a deployment completes.
• Issue Tracking: Create, label, assign, and close issues. Automatically triage incoming bug reports and link them to the relevant code.
• Code Review: Analyze diffs, suggest improvements, and post review comments directly on merge requests.

Configuration

"mcpServers": {
  "gitlab": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y", "@mcp/gitlab-server"],
    "env": {
      "GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-token",
      "GITLAB_API_URL": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4"
    }
  }
}

Generate a Personal Access Token in GitLab User Settings → Access Tokens with api scope.

Top Prompts

1. "List all open merge requests in the backend project and summarize the changes in each."
2. "Trigger the deploy pipeline for the staging environment and notify me when it finishes."
3. "Create an issue titled 'Fix login timeout' and assign it to the on-call engineer with a 'bug' label."
4. "Review the latest diff on MR #142 and post suggestions for improving error handling."