DC gitlab-cli-skills

Comprehensive GitLab CLI (glab) command reference and workflows for all GitLab operations. Use when working with merge requests, CI/CD pipelines, issues, releases, repositories, authentication, variables, labels, milestones, snippets, or any glab command. Covers 40+ sub-commands including glab mr, glab ci, glab issue, glab repo, glab release, glab variable, and more.

ClawHub Agent Skills author: Vince Lozada v1.13.31 MIT-0 2 files body ≈ 60 692 tokens Open the sourceclawhub.ai↗ analyzed 6 d ago

Comprehensive GitLab CLI (glab) command reference and workflows for all GitLab operations.

As a process C 61/100 · Has gaps — References files that are not bundled: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md, ../glab-issue/SKILL.md, ../glab-ci/SKILL.md

Procedure GitLab Infrastructure Software development AI and agentstype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text

Runs in: OpenClaw Claude / Claude Code ChatGPT / Codex Gemini CLI Cursor GitHub Copilot / VS Code Qwen Code Kimi Code CLI Z.ai (GLM) DeepSeek (Deep Code) Mistral Vibe LangChain (deepagents) Goose OpenCode

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Technical rating

75/100

safety, quality, tests

Safety 60%: 85
Quality 40%: 59
Run on models: none yet

Process rating

61/100

Has gaps

References files that are not bundled: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md, ../glab-issue/SKILL.md, ../glab-ci/SKILL.md

Tools and files w 18: 0
Execution cost w 6: 10
When it triggers w 12: 50

the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

What is at stake

Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.

Exfiltration medium severity

Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.

If you install

The instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".

For the author

If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.

Dangerous commands medium severity

Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.

If you install

The skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.

For the author

Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.

How to improve

The SKILL.md body is over 5,000 tokens: move reference detail into references/ and load it when needed.
The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.

For the model run — optional

Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.

Guard findings · 3

✓ No critical or high findings

Medium and low: 3

medium Exfiltration exfil-read-secret-files SKILL.md:1068

Reads credential / secret files (quoted — discussed, not commanded)
```
- Check Docker config: `cat ~/.docker/config.json`
```
quoted
medium Dangerous commands cmd-shell-rc SKILL.md:1592

Writes to a shell startup file
```
echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
```

medium Dangerous commands cmd-persistence SKILL.md:2252

Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)

On macOS, setup installs `~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.gitlab.glab-govern-audit-sync.plist`. On Linux it installs the user timer `~/.config/systemd/user/glab-govern-audit-sync.timer`. The fallback job r

quoted

Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

warning body-long SKILL.md body ≈ 60692 tokens (recommended < 5000); move details to references/
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note frontmatter-key unknown frontmatter key "dependencies"
note edit-residue the text marks something as outdated (lines 853, 891, 1018, 1744, 1748, 1788): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions

Process rating: all ten parameters 61/100

Will not run. References files that are not bundled: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md, ../glab-issue/SKILL.md, ../glab-ci/SKILL.md

0Tools and files. 59 referenced file(s) missing: ../glab-mr/SKILL.md, ../glab-issue/SKILL.md, ../glab-ci/SKILL.md
10Execution cost. Instruction body is 60692 tokens: crowds the task out of the window
50When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
60Steps. 611 steps, 6 vague phrases
70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
100Result and completion. Output format and completion criterion are stated
100Failures and branches. 6 branches, has a failure section
100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
100Progress reporting. Reports progress

medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
low 311 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
low The response is described with custom markup (47 tags): a typed call is more reliable

Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.

Quality signals

+5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
+4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
-5TODO / placeholder text left in the skill
+1No license
+2Single-language instructions
+3Description length 369: enough signal without eating the budget
+4Structure: 478 headings
+3Step-by-step instructions: 611 items
+3Output format is stated explicitly
+4Has examples (325 code blocks)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 59.

External checks

ClawHub: clean

This is a broad GitLab CLI reference skill with sensitive commands documented, but the risky behavior is disclosed, purpose-aligned, and not automatically executed by the skill itself.

LLM: benign (medium) · VirusTotal: · 9 Oct 2026

Tests

— no evals.json

— no spec.yaml

— not run on models

Files · 2

SKILL.md 238K
skill-card.md 2K

When to use

**Use glab when:** - Automating GitLab operations in scripts - Working in terminal-centric workflows - Batch operations (multiple MRs/issues) - Integration with other CLI tools - CI/CD pipeline workflows - Faster navigation without browser context switching **Use web UI when:** - Complex diff review with inline comments - Visual merge conflict resolution - Configuring repo settings and permissions - Advanced search/filtering across projects - Reviewing security scanning results - Managing group

Frontmatter

dependencies: ["glab"]

Dates

In catalog since 1 Feb 2026

Updated in catalog 9 Oct 2026

First seen here 10 Sept 2026

Last analysis 24 Oct 2026, 09:20 UTC

Last seen in crawl 18 d ago

Score history

Date		Score	Safety	Qual.
11 Oct 2026	D	75	85	59
7 Oct 2026	C	78	90	59
16 Sept 2026	B	78	90	59
11 Sept 2026	B	77	90	57
10 Sept 2026	D	54	90	0

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