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mcp-gitlab MCP Server

Name: mcp-gitlab MCP Server
Author: vish288

GitLab MCP server (MCP 2026-07-28): projects, MRs, pipelines, CI/CD, issues; writes or read-only

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vish288-mcp-gitlab": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-gitlab"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITLAB_TOKEN": "YOUR_GITLAB_TOKEN",
        "GITLAB_URL": "",
        "GITLAB_READ_ONLY": "",
        "MCP_READ_ONLY": "",
        "GITLAB_AUTH": "",
        "GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID": "",
        "GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET": "YOUR_GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET",
        "GITLAB_OAUTH_BASE_URL": "",
        "GITLAB_OAUTH_SCOPES": "",
        "GITLAB_OAUTH_JWT_KEY": "YOUR_GITLAB_OAUTH_JWT_KEY",
        "GITLAB_HTTP_BEARER_TOKEN": "YOUR_GITLAB_HTTP_BEARER_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
GITLAB_TOKEN	No	GitLab personal access token (token mode). Optional after `mcp-gitlab auth login`; also accepts GITLAB_PAT, GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN, GITLAB_API_TOKEN Secret.
GITLAB_URL	Yes	GitLab instance URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com)
GITLAB_READ_ONLY	No	Alias for MCP_READ_ONLY. Any value other than false/0/no/off/empty locks the server read-only; --read-only can only raise the lock
MCP_READ_ONLY	No	Locks the server read-only: write tools and write-workflow prompts are not listed and nothing lifts the lock at runtime. Shared name across the mcp-* servers; set it in the deployer's env
GITLAB_AUTH	No	Authentication mode: token (default) or oauth (OAuth 2.1 proxy; streamable-http only)
GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID	No	Application ID of the GitLab OAuth app (oauth mode, or local sign-in on a self-managed instance)
GITLAB_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET	No	Secret of the GitLab OAuth app (oauth mode) Secret.
GITLAB_OAUTH_BASE_URL	No	Public URL of this server, no trailing slash (oauth mode); redirect URI is <base>/auth/callback
GITLAB_OAUTH_SCOPES	No	Space-separated GitLab scopes required on every request (oauth mode; default api)
GITLAB_OAUTH_JWT_KEY	No	FastMCP JWT signing key, >=32 random chars (oauth mode; defaults to one derived from the client secret) Secret.
GITLAB_HTTP_BEARER_TOKEN	No	Bearer token (min 16 chars) required to bind an HTTP transport to a non-loopback host; clients send it as 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' (token mode; --auth oauth has its own sign-in) Secret.

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