GitLab Local

Manage GitLab merge requests with auto-detection of current branch context, including creation, review, comments, and merging.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — list_open_merge_requests (line 35: execFile("git", args, { cwd }))

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: MR_MCP_GITLAB_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configMR_MCP_GITLAB_HOST— Yes GitLab instance URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com)

🔐 secretMR_MCP_GITLAB_TOKEN— Yes GitLab personal access token (needs api scope)

configMR_MCP_PROJECT_ID— No Default project ID — used when project_id is omitted from tool calls

configMR_MCP_REPO_DIR— No Path to your local git repo — enables auto-detection of the project ID and current-branch MR when IDs are omitted

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 5 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: f5e52b39dd05bf2df7bf13d2d98436ffe3b49b9d

code hash: 040e87c4b208102d55022b3f64fa99fec345157ff37febd0df65b42e07521a91

verified: 6/9/2026, 11:36:19 AM

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