CI Pipeline Profiler

Leading word: profile — the act of measuring where time goes in a pipeline, then explaining why.

Given a GitLab pipeline URL, profile every job's duration, drill into the slow ones, read the project's CI config, and produce a markdown report with actionable optimization suggestions.

Prerequisites

• Run from the project's local clone (the agent reads .gitlab-ci.yml, Makefile, Dockerfile, etc. from the working directory).
• glab CLI installed and authenticated (GITLAB_TOKEN or GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN env var set).
• python3 available (the helper script is stdlib-only).

Flow

Step 1: Collect job data

Run the helper script to fetch all jobs of the pipeline: