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  "name": "io.github.zereight/gitlab-mcp",
  "title": "GitLab MCP Server",
  "description": "GitLab MCP server for projects, merge requests, issues, pipelines, wiki, releases, and more.",
  "version": "2.3.13",
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  "repoUrl": "https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp",
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      "name": "GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
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      "isRequired": false,
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    {
      "name": "GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_FILE",
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      "description": "Path to a file that contains the personal access token. Read once at startup and trimmed. Ignored when GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN or --token is non-empty. A missing, unreadable, or empty file stops startup. Does not replace job token, OAuth, cookie, or remote authorization."
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    {
      "name": "GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN",
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      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional GitLab CI job token to use instead of a personal access token when running inside GitLab CI."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_AUTH_COOKIE_PATH",
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      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional path to a GitLab authentication cookie file for cookie-based authentication."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_USE_OAUTH",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to true to start with GitLab OAuth instead of a personal access token, job token, or cookie file."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "GitLab OAuth application ID. When GITLAB_USE_OAUTH=true, set this or GITLAB_OAUTH_TOKEN_SCRIPT."
    },
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      "name": "GITLAB_OAUTH_TOKEN_SCRIPT",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Command that prints an OAuth access token. When GITLAB_USE_OAUTH=true, set this or GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_API_URL",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "GitLab API base URL. Use https://gitlab.com/api/v4 for GitLab.com or your self-managed GitLab API URL."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_ALLOWED_PROJECT_IDS",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional comma-separated list of GitLab project IDs that this server is allowed to access."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_PERMISSION_MODE",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Tool exposure. Allowed values are readonly, modify, and full. Unset uses full. readonly keeps read-only tools. modify blocks delete and teardown tools."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_TOOLSETS",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional comma-separated list of toolsets to enable, such as projects, issues, merge_requests, pipelines, releases, users, groups, wiki, or search."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_TOOLS",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional comma-separated list of individual tool names to add on top of enabled toolsets."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_DENIED_TOOLS_REGEX",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional regular expression used to hide matching tools from the server."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_TOOL_POLICY_APPROVE",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional comma-separated list of tool names that require explicit approval before execution."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_TOOL_POLICY_HIDDEN",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional comma-separated list of tool names to hide from tools/list."
    },
    {
      "name": "NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to 0 only when you intentionally need to connect to a GitLab instance with invalid or self-signed TLS certificates."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_CA_CERT_PATH",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional path to a custom CA certificate file for self-managed GitLab instances."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_MASKING_ENABLED",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to true to mask text tool results and returned errors using built-in or configured rules."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_MASKING_CONFIG",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional path to a response-masking JSON configuration file."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_MASKING_POLICY_FILE",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Optional protected server-owned JSON file containing managed masking policies."
    },
    {
      "name": "GITLAB_MASKING_WORKSPACE_DIR",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Directory used to resolve response-masking configuration paths."
    }
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      "id": "secrets-requested",
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      "detail": "Read 91 files in @zereight/mcp-gitlab@2.3.13: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found"
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