gl-cli SKILL.md skillA
gl-cli from zereight/gitlab-mcp is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add zereight/gitlab-mcp/gl-cli@git:20261012.5f4f55ePins git:20261012.5f4f55e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- zereight/gitlab-mcp
- Path
skills/gl-cli/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261012.5f4f55e, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 3, 2026
- Size
- 3,402 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,059
- License
- MIT
Use GitLab from the terminal without registering an MCP server. Covers authenticating the zereight-mcp-gitlab CLI (PAT or OAuth device flow) and reading merge requests, diffs, discussions, issues, and pipelines. Use when the user asks about a GitLab MR/issue/pipeline and no GitLab MCP tools are available, or wants CLI-only setup.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# gl-cli `zereight-mcp-gitlab` (alias `mcp-gitlab`) is both the MCP server and a GitLab CLI. Run it with a command and it prints the result and exits. No MCP client is involved. Full guide: `docs/getting-started/cli-without-mcp.md`. ## 1. Check credentials first Run this before anything else and read the result: ```bash zereight-mcp-gitlab user whoami ``` - Prints a user: credentials work, go to step 3. - `Missing GitLab credentials` (exit 2): go to step 2. - `401`: token expired or under-scoped, redo step 2. - `command not found`: `npm install -g @zereight/mcp-gitlab`. ## 2. Authenticate (ask the user which option) Never invent, guess, or echo a token. Ask the user to run the command themselves, since it needs their secret. **A. Personal Access Token** (fastest; scope `read_api`, or `api` to write) ```bash read -rs GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN && export GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN export GITLAB_API_URL=https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4 # omit for gitlab.com ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add zereight/gitlab-mcp/gl-cli@sha256:0d261ec2f8b7afdbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.5f4f55e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ckrtvdjfvhpsz4xq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261012.5f4f55e latest | 2026-10-12 | 5f4f55e | 3,402 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.d11df29 | 2026-10-03 | d11df29 | 3,147 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3402 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
zereight/gitlab-mcp · 2,059 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ckrtvdjfvhpsz4xq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=zereight/gitlab-mcp/gl-cli GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d261ec2f8b7afdb9d7d4b08b80d6fbe31420b5029cde2abe58439ca4e34e825
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.