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Create a new GitLab project via the REST API in a user's personal namespace or a group, with visibility, README initialization, and default branch options.

List and filter GitLab CI/CD pipelines, fetch a single pipeline's detailed status, get the latest pipeline for a ref, and cancel a running pipeline via the REST API.

Download GitLab CI job artifacts via the REST API — by job ID, by the latest successful pipeline for a ref, as a single extracted file, and manage their retention.

Fetch a GitLab CI job's log output and retry or cancel jobs via the REST API, including listing a pipeline's jobs filtered by status.

Approve or unapprove a GitLab merge request via the REST API and understand which approval-rule features require Premium or Ultimate.

Fetch a GitLab CI job's log output and retry or cancel jobs via the REST API, including listing a pipeline's jobs filtered by status.

Read a single file's contents or metadata from a GitLab repository and list a repository's file tree via the REST API, including pagination and recursive listing.

Create a single GitLab commit that adds, updates, deletes, moves, or chmods multiple files in one API call, optionally creating a new branch at the same time.

Merge a GitLab merge request via the REST API, using the sha guard, squash, and auto-merge options, and interpreting merge-failure error codes.

Fetch a GitLab merge request's file diffs via the REST API's diffs endpoint, paginating results and avoiding the deprecated changes endpoint.

Comment on a GitLab merge request via the REST API: post a plain note, start a repliable discussion thread, or anchor a thread to a specific diff line.

Create a new GitLab merge request via the REST API, including handling forked-project targets and marking the MR as a draft.

Authenticate an AI coding agent to GitLab's REST API using a personal access token, choosing the right header, scope, base URL, and pagination/rate-limit handling.

Publish and consume a reusable GitLab CI/CD component from the CI/CD Catalog

Trigger a downstream multi-project GitLab CI pipeline and block on its result using strategy depend

Bootstrap a GitLab CI pipeline that runs in a Kubernetes executor with per-job ephemeral namespaces and pod resource limits

Configure GitLab CI needs: keyword with DAG to eliminate sequential stage bottlenecks and fan out parallel jobs

Configure GitLab CI to use environments with protected variables and deployment tiers for secret isolation across dev, staging, and prod

Implement a GitLab CI pipeline with dynamic child pipelines generated from changed paths using rules and the artifact strategy

Enable and configure the GitLab Dependency Proxy for a group to cache Docker Hub images and reduce pull rate-limit failures in CI pipelines

Migrate GitLab Runner autoscaling from Docker Machine to the fleeting plugin architecture

Configure GitLab protected environments with deployment approval requirements

Trigger a GitLab pipeline via pipeline trigger token API

Configure GitLab merge trains for ordered, pre-merged CI validation