Back to Home
Vijay-Duke icon

mcp-gitlab

Verified Safe

by Vijay-Duke

Overview

An MCP server that enables LLMs to interact with GitLab repositories, manage merge requests, issues, and perform various Git operations.

Installation

Run Command
uvx mcp-gitlab

Environment Variables

  • GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN
  • GITLAB_OAUTH_TOKEN
  • GITLAB_URL

Security Notes

The server demonstrates strong security practices: - Robust input validation (e.g., `validate_project_path`, `validate_file_path`) prevents common injection attacks and path traversal. - Output sanitization (`sanitize_output`) explicitly redacts GitLab tokens (e.g., `glpat-`) from responses. - Log messages are sanitized (`sanitize_log_message`) to prevent log injection. - The `download_job_artifact` tool explicitly returns artifact metadata rather than the file content itself, preventing unauthorized data exfiltration through the LLM. - Authentication tokens (`GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN`, `GITLAB_OAUTH_TOKEN`) are correctly loaded from environment variables, avoiding hardcoding. - The `GitDetector` accesses local `.git` files, which, while standard for Git, could be a low-risk vector if arbitrary paths were accepted without proper context from an LLM. However, path inputs are sanitized, mitigating this risk significantly.

Similar Servers

Stats

Interest Score30
Security Score9
Cost ClassMedium
Avg Tokens2500
Stars1
Forks2
Last Update2026-01-19

Tags

GitLabVersion ControlDevOpsLLM IntegrationAPI