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Connects your DevOps pipeline to your business operations, automating issue triage, project archiving, and CI CD monitoring across your repositories.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native GitLab integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right GitLab calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your GitLab data, across all 58 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke GitLab access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in GitLab, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when GitLab is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach GitLab.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every GitLab action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on GitLab, and when to use it.

Create project issue
Use this when you need to report a bug, request a feature, or track a task within a specific project.
Create repository branch
Use this when you need to create a new branch from an existing branch or a specific commit.
Archive project
Use this when you need to mark a project read only after finishing active development.
Get merge request notes
Pull all comments and discussion notes for a specific merge request to summarize reviewer feedback.
Get project merge requests
Retrieve a list of merge requests for a project, filtered by state, labels, or milestones.
Get single pipeline
Pull details of a single CI CD pipeline by its ID to check overall success or failure status.
List pipeline jobs
Retrieve a list of all jobs within a specific pipeline to identify which stage failed.
Get single commit
Pull detailed information about a specific commit using a hash or branch name.
Create project
Use this to provision a new project repository within the GitLab instance.
List all project members
Pull the effective membership list including direct, inherited, and invited users.
Get repository branches
Retrieve a list of all branches in a project to track feature development progress.
Create GitLab group
Use this when you need to establish a new group for projects or team collaboration.
Delete Project
Tool to delete a gitlab project by its id. use when you need to remove a project, either by marking it for later deletion or deleting it immediately.
Download Project Avatar
Tool to download a project’s avatar image. use when you need the raw avatar bytes after confirming the project exists.
Erase Job
Tool to erase the content of a specified job within a project. use when you need to remove job artifacts and logs.
Get Commit References
Tool to get all references (branches or tags) a commit is pushed to. use when you need to find out which branches or tags a specific commit belongs to in a gitlab project.
Get Commit Sequence
Tool to get the sequence number of a commit in a project by following parent links from the given commit. use when you need to determine the order of a commit in the project's history.
Get Group Details
Tool to retrieve information about a specific group by its id. use when you need to get details of a gitlab group.
Get Group Member
Tool to retrieve details for a specific group member. use when you need to fetch membership information for a user in a group after you know both group id and user id.
Get Groups
Get groups
Get Job Details
Tool to retrieve details of a single job by its id within a specified project. use this when you need to fetch specific information about a particular ci/cd job.
Get Project
Tool to get a single project by id or url encoded path.
Get Project Languages
Tool to list programming languages used in a project with percentages. use when you need the project language breakdown.
Get Project Member
Tool to retrieve details for a specific project member. use after confirming project and user ids to fetch membership information for a project member.
Get Project Member All
Tool to retrieve details for a specific project member (including inherited and invited members). use when you need the effective membership info (including invitations and inheritance).
Get Merge Request Commits
Tool to get commits of a merge request. use when you need to retrieve all commits associated with a specific merge request.
Get Projects
Tool to list all projects accessible to the authenticated user. supports filtering.
List Merge Request Diffs
Tool to list all diff versions of a merge request. use when you need to inspect changes across different diff versions after creating or updating a merge request.
Get Repository Branch
Tool to retrieve information about a specific branch in a project. use when you need to get details for a single branch.
Get User
Tool to retrieve information about a specific user by their id. use when you need to fetch details for a single gitlab user.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven operates using the permissions granted to the OAuth token during the connection process. If the authenticated user has maintainer access to a project, the agent can perform maintainer actions like archiving projects or merging requests. If the user only has guest access, the agent will receive a 403 error from the GitLab API when attempting write actions. We never attempt to escalate privileges or bypass GitLab's internal role based access control. You can restrict the scope of the token during the OAuth flow to ensure the agent only sees the specific repositories and groups required for your workflows.
Ceven can trigger pipelines indirectly by performing actions that GitLab recognizes as triggers, such as creating a new branch, pushing a commit via the API, or creating a merge request. While the agent does not manually start a job execution in the same way a user clicks a button in the UI, it can manage the triggers that lead to pipeline runs. Once a pipeline starts, Ceven can monitor the pipeline and job endpoints to track progress and notify your team the moment a build fails or succeeds in the staging environment.
GitLab imposes rate limits on their API to ensure platform stability, and Ceven respects these limits strictly. Depending on whether you use GitLab SaaS or a self managed instance, the limit varies. For SaaS users, the agent implements an exponential backoff strategy when it encounters a 429 Too Many Requests response. This means if a workflow attempts to pull thousands of commits in a tight loop, Ceven will pause and retry automatically. For self managed instances, we rely on the limits configured by your own GitLab administrator, which can be adjusted to accommodate higher volume automation.
Yes, the agent can create new groups and retrieve detailed information about existing group memberships. This is particularly useful for onboarding new teams where a group must be created and a set of standard projects provisioned. The agent can pull the list of all group members, including those who have inherited permissions from a parent group. This allows you to run audits to see exactly who has access to your source code across a complex hierarchy of subgroups without manually exporting CSV files from the admin panel.
For very large merge requests, Ceven does not pull the entire diff into the prompt context to avoid token overflow. Instead, it uses the GitLab API to list the changed files first. The agent then selectively pulls the diffs for the most relevant files based on the goal of the workflow. If you ask for a summary of a massive change, the agent will iterate through the diff versions and summarize them in chunks. This ensures that the model maintains high accuracy and does not lose critical context due to the sheer size of the code change.
Yes, the agent can be configured to archive projects based on specific criteria. For example, you can set up a workflow that lists all projects in a group, checks the date of the last commit, and archives any project that has been dormant for over six months. The agent can first create an issue in the project to notify the original creator and then execute the archive command after a set waiting period. This keeps your project list clean and ensures that developers do not accidentally commit code to deprecated repositories.
Ceven supports both GitLab SaaS and self managed installations. For self managed instances, you will need to provide the base URL of your instance during the connection process. Your instance must be reachable over the public internet or through a configured proxy for our agents to communicate with your API. We use the same OAuth2 flow for self managed instances as we do for the SaaS version, ensuring that your credentials remain secure and that access can be revoked instantly through your own GitLab user settings or admin dashboard.
The agent can read and filter issues by their labels to drive conditional logic in your workflows. For instance, you can tell Ceven to only process issues labeled as bug and high priority. While the current integration focuses heavily on reading and creating issues, the agent can use the label metadata to route tasks to the correct team members. If an issue is updated with a specific label, that event can trigger a downstream action in another tool, such as creating a ticket in a customer support portal for the account manager.

Alternatives to GitLab

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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