GitLab MR MCP connects AI coding assistants to GitLab repositories for managing merge requests, issues, and code reviews. It enables comprehensive interaction with the GitLab platform through API integration. Key features of GitLab MR MCP: - List accessible GitLab projects and open merge requests - Retrieve detailed merge request information, diff contents, and discussion threads - Add general comments or post line-specific inline code review comments to merge requests - Fetch issue details and metadata from GitLab projects - Update merge request titles and descriptions to manage pull request workflows

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🚀 GitLab MR MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with GitLab merge requests and issues.

📌 Overview

This project implements a server using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows AI agents to interact with GitLab repositories. It provides tools for:

📦 Installation

⚡ Using Smithery

To install GitLab MR MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli@latest install @kopfrechner/gitlab-mr-mcp --client claude --config '"{\"gitlabMrMcpToken\":\"YOUR_GITLAB_TOKEN\", \"gitlabMrMcpHost\": \"YOUR_GITLAB_HOST\"}"'

🛠️ Manual Installation

#### 🔧 Prerequisites

#### 📖 Setup

1. Clone this repository 2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Add the following to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitlab-mr-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/gitlab-mr-mcp/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "MR_MCP_GITLAB_TOKEN": "your_gitlab_token",
        "MR_MCP_GITLAB_HOST": "your_gitlab_host"
      }
    }
  }
}

🛠️ Available Tools

🏗️ Development

🔍 Running Inspector

Set up environment variables:

export MR_MCP_GITLAB_TOKEN=your_gitlab_token
export MR_MCP_GITLAB_HOST=your_gitlab_host
Optional env vars to filter the projects the get_projects tool has access to:
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/access_requests/#valid-access-levels
export MR_MCP_MIN_ACCESS_LEVEL=min_access_level
Search term that should match the project path or name 
export MR_MCP_PROJECT_SEARCH_TERM=term 

For use with MCP clients, you can run:

npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/inspector npm start

🛠️ Troubleshooting

If you encounter permissions issues (403 Forbidden), check:

1. Your GitLab token has the proper scopes (api, read_api) 2. The token user has proper access to the projects 3. The project IDs are correct

📜 License

MIT

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.