GitLab Workflow

Operate on GitLab repositories using the glab CLI — merge requests, CI/CD pipelines, issues, and releases.

FIRST: Verify Environment

Run these checks before any glab command. If remote/auth checks fail, STOP.

git status --short --branch
git remote -v | grep -i gitlab
glab auth status

If glab is not installed, ask the user to install it (brew install glab on macOS, sudo apt install glab on Debian/Ubuntu). If not authenticated, run glab auth login. For self-managed instances, use glab auth login --hostname gitlab.example.com.

Critical Rules