The GitLab MCP Server provides comprehensive GitLab project management capabilities to AI clients through a Model Context Protocol interface, enabling operations on projects, merge requests, issues, pipelines, wiki, and releases. It offers multiple authentication methods including Personal Access Tokens, OAuth2 with browser-based flows, and remote authorization support, with compatibility across stdio, SSE, and HTTP transports for clients like Claude, VS Code, Cursor, and Copilot. The server solves the problem of giving AI assistants secure, authenticated access to GitLab resources while supporting various deployment scenarios from local desktop use to remote multi-user server deployments.
claude mcp add --transport stdio zereight-gitlab-mcp uvx gitlab-mcp