GitLab MCP Server

io.github.zereight/gitlab-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 2.1k GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-27
Health score 95

About GitLab MCP Server

GitLab MCP Server is an MCP server published by the GitHub account zereight. GitLab MCP server for projects, merge requests, issues, pipelines, wiki, releases, and more.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @zereight/mcp-gitlab at version 2.3.13.

It asks for 2 secrets: GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN and GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 2.3.13 was published on 27 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN`	No	Yes	GitLab personal access token for local stdio use. A non-empty value overrides GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_FILE. One of this token, GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_FILE, GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN, GITLAB_AUTH_COOKIE_PATH, or GITLAB_USE_OAUTH=true must be set. Create a token with the GitLab scopes the tools need, such as api or read_api.
`GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN_FILE`	No	No	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.
`GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Optional GitLab CI job token to use instead of a personal access token when running inside GitLab CI.
`GITLAB_AUTH_COOKIE_PATH`	No	No	Optional path to a GitLab authentication cookie file for cookie-based authentication.
`GITLAB_USE_OAUTH`	No	No	Set to true to start with GitLab OAuth instead of a personal access token, job token, or cookie file.
`GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID`	No	No	GitLab OAuth application ID. When GITLAB_USE_OAUTH=true, set this or GITLAB_OAUTH_TOKEN_SCRIPT.
`GITLAB_OAUTH_TOKEN_SCRIPT`	No	No	Command that prints an OAuth access token. When GITLAB_USE_OAUTH=true, set this or GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID.
`GITLAB_API_URL`	No	No	GitLab API base URL. Use https://gitlab.com/api/v4 for GitLab.com or your self-managed GitLab API URL.
`GITLAB_ALLOWED_PROJECT_IDS`	No	No	Optional comma-separated list of GitLab project IDs that this server is allowed to access.
`GITLAB_PERMISSION_MODE`	No	No	Tool exposure. Allowed values are readonly, modify, and full. Unset uses full. readonly keeps read-only tools. modify blocks delete and teardown tools.
`GITLAB_TOOLSETS`	No	No	Optional comma-separated list of toolsets to enable, such as projects, issues, merge_requests, pipelines, releases, users, groups, wiki, or search.
`GITLAB_TOOLS`	No	No	Optional comma-separated list of individual tool names to add on top of enabled toolsets.
`GITLAB_DENIED_TOOLS_REGEX`	No	No	Optional regular expression used to hide matching tools from the server.
`GITLAB_TOOL_POLICY_APPROVE`	No	No	Optional comma-separated list of tool names that require explicit approval before execution.
`GITLAB_TOOL_POLICY_HIDDEN`	No	No	Optional comma-separated list of tool names to hide from tools/list.
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED`	No	No	Set to 0 only when you intentionally need to connect to a GitLab instance with invalid or self-signed TLS certificates.
`GITLAB_CA_CERT_PATH`	No	No	Optional path to a custom CA certificate file for self-managed GitLab instances.
`GITLAB_MASKING_ENABLED`	No	No	Set to true to mask text tool results and returned errors using built-in or configured rules.
`GITLAB_MASKING_CONFIG`	No	No	Optional path to a response-masking JSON configuration file.
`GITLAB_MASKING_POLICY_FILE`	No	No	Optional protected server-owned JSON file containing managed masking policies.
`GITLAB_MASKING_WORKSPACE_DIR`	No	No	Directory used to resolve response-masking configuration paths.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN, GITLAB_JOB_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account zereight
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@zereight/mcp-gitlab@2.3.13 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 91 files in @zereight/mcp-gitlab@2.3.13: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 91 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 95 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity35 / 40

2,079 GitHub stars, 251,654 downloads last week, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-29, last release 2026-10-31, 913 commits in 90 days.

Issue health15 / 15

248 closed of 256 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

364 forks, 608 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.zereight/gitlab-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account zereight
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account zereight. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `@zereight/mcp-gitlab` 2.3.13 (stdio) oci `docker.io/zereight050/gitlab-mcp:2.3.13` no version given (stdio)
Version	2.3.13
Published	2026-10-27
Last updated	2026-10-27
Source repository	https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp
Website	https://zereight.github.io/gitlab-mcp/
Category	Productivity & notes (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitlab-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@zereight/mcp-gitlab@2.3.13"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop · Docker image

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitlab-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/zereight050/gitlab-mcp:2.3.13"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-zereight-gitlab-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.