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Merge requests, pipelines, and projects managed by AI in GitLab

Engineering teams using GitLab for their DevOps lifecycle can now manage merge requests, monitor CI/CD pipelines, create issues, and navigate projects through natural conversation. Your AI agent handles the GitLab busywork so developers focus on shipping code.

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DevOps lifecycle, one conversation at a time

Your AI agent navigates 54 GitLab operations spanning issues, merge requests, pipelines, branches, and team management, bringing your entire DevOps platform into a chat window.

Create Project Issues

A tester discovers a regression and describes it in chat. Your AI agent creates a GitLab issue with the title, description, labels, and assignee in the correct project. No browser required, the bug is tracked before the tester finishes their coffee.

Monitor Pipeline Status

The release manager asks if the staging pipeline passed. The agent retrieves the latest pipeline for the project, reports its status, lists individual job results, and highlights any failures with job IDs for quick investigation.

Review Merge Request Diffs

Before approving a merge request, a reviewer asks what changed. The agent fetches the MR diff versions, shows modified files with addition and deletion counts, and retrieves commit messages so the reviewer has full context in a single response.

List Repository Branches

A developer needs to know which feature branches exist before creating a new one. The agent lists all branches in the project, shows the latest commit on each, and confirms whether a proposed branch name would conflict with an existing one.

Manage Project Members

An admin needs to add a contractor to a project with developer-level access. The agent handles the invitation, sets the correct access level, and confirms the member was added. When the engagement ends, the same agent removes access.

Inspect Commit History

A team lead wants to see who committed what this week. The agent lists recent commits for the project, showing authors, messages, and timestamps. It can also retrieve a specific commit by SHA to examine exactly what changed.

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Ship faster with conversational DevOps

Explore how engineering teams use AI to cut through GitLab navigation overhead, monitor deployments, and keep their DevOps pipeline flowing from a single chat interface.

Pipeline Failures Diagnosed in Real Time

A CI pipeline fails at 3 AM and alerts fire. The on-call engineer asks the AI Agent what happened. The agent retrieves the failed pipeline, identifies the broken job, pulls the job details including stage and failure reason, and points the engineer to the exact issue. Diagnosis that usually takes 15 minutes of clicking through GitLab happens in one exchange.

Merge Request Reviews Without Tab Juggling

During code review, a senior developer asks the AI Agent to summarize the open MR. The agent fetches the merge request commits, lists the diff versions, retrieves discussion notes from reviewers, and compiles everything into a clear summary. The reviewer makes an informed approve or request-changes decision without opening GitLab at all.

Cross-Project Visibility for Engineering Managers

An engineering manager oversees five GitLab projects. Instead of checking each project individually, they ask the AI Agent for pipeline status across all projects. The agent queries each project's latest pipeline, compiles results into a single view, and flags which projects have failing builds. Executive-level visibility delivered in seconds.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can the AI agent monitor CI/CD pipelines and report job failures?

Yes. The agent retrieves pipeline details including status, individual job results, stage information, and failure reasons. It can list all pipelines for a project, filter by status, and drill down into specific jobs. You get pipeline visibility without navigating GitLab CI/CD pages.

What GitLab OAuth scopes does Tars request?

Tars requests api, read_api, read_user, read_repository, and write_repository scopes among others. These cover project management, issue creation, merge request handling, pipeline monitoring, and member management. You authorize through GitLab's standard OAuth flow and can revoke access anytime.

Does the agent work with self-managed GitLab instances?

Yes. The integration connects to any GitLab instance accessible via HTTPS, including GitLab.com, self-managed installations, and GitLab Dedicated. You provide your instance URL during setup, and the agent communicates with your specific GitLab server.

Can the agent create and manage merge requests?

The agent can retrieve merge request details, list MR commits and diffs, read discussion notes, and fetch review comments. It provides full visibility into merge request status and content. For creating new MRs, the branch creation endpoint is available alongside commit inspection tools.

Does Tars store copies of my GitLab project source code?

No. Tars queries GitLab APIs in real time during conversations. Project metadata, pipeline statuses, and merge request diffs are fetched live and used only to formulate the response. No source code is persisted on Tars infrastructure.

How is this different from GitLab's built-in Duo Chat?

GitLab Duo Chat focuses on code explanation and generation within the GitLab IDE. Tars AI Agent is an operational tool that manages your GitLab workflow across issues, pipelines, MRs, and team permissions from any chat channel. It connects with 600+ other tools, so your GitLab operations can work alongside Slack, Jira, and your CRM.

Can the agent share projects with groups or manage access levels?

Yes. The agent can share a project with a GitLab group at a specified access level, import members from one project to another, and manage individual member roles. It supports listing all project members including inherited ones, making access auditing straightforward.

What happens when the agent queries a project I do not have access to?

The agent inherits the permissions of the authenticated GitLab user. If you do not have access to a project, the API returns a 404 and the agent informs you the project was not found or you lack permission. It never circumvents GitLab's access control model.

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Implementing an Agent revolutionized our customer service channels and our service to Indiana business owners. We're saving an average of 4,000+ calls a month and can now provide 24x7x365 customer service️ along with our business services.
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“Cutting down on staff needing to email back.”
Since our launch of Tars Agents, we've had more than 5k interactions with them from individuals on the website. We saw prospects interacting with the Agent regarding application timelines, tuition, curriculum, and other items that may come through an email. This provides another avenue of access to our team while cutting down on staff needing to email back.
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“Powerful tool - and there's so much more still to explore!”
I love the flexibility of the TARS chatbot design tool. The ability to drop in a new gambit and easily de-link and re-link gambits before and after it saves HOURS of time lost if I had to regenerate from scratch. TARS stands out for its flexibility, consistent performance, and outstanding support.
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Founder
“I like the product.”
Takes those boring forms and allows you to make the collecting of customer information enjoyable for the user. It has a lot of value and I see the company constantly working on improving it.
Pierre Rattini
Director of Marketing
“Very responsive and supportive Team”
I love how supportive and responsive the team members are. The chatbots are not difficult to build once you have an idea of what you are doing, and this is so based on the backend work Tars has completed. Also, they are flexible to the clients' requests.
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Product Manager
“Easy for cooperation and open to agreement.”
One of the biggest qualities of TARS is their ability to truly understand their clients' needs. They took the time to thoroughly assess our requirements, offering valuable insights and recommendations that we hadn't even considered. This level of personalized attention made a significant difference in the success of our project.
Milica Petrovic
Customer Care Project Associate
“Great service”
The guys at Tars are so passionate about bots and maximum engagement. Tars is overall a great product with really nice people there to help me engage and automate conversations I would have otherwise missed.
Nigel Gosling
Health Coach
“Best in class for lead generation”
TARS is an essential tool within our lead gen strategy. I started to use it a couple years ago, and the platform evolved to focus on results. You can integrate your Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and AdWords conversion tag to track results and measure your campaign. You can also integrate with Zapier, which opens a lot of possibilities. Compared with static landing pages, we have seen an increase in conversions and more engagement.
Leonardo Wolff
Founder
“Very professional and cooperative”
Building an automated chat that our customers actually used and reduced calls amount.
Maryam Alhaddad
Customer Journey Designer
“Flexibility and good service”
Tars platform is very flexible, so you can do pretty much any flux you desire. Also integrates with any third party through APIs with a very simple and easy-to-use interface. Also tars team is great! Always at disposal and brings suggestions and solutions for any issue encountered during the process of building the chatbot.
Lucas Von Lachmann
Process Manager
“Deserved The title of the Best Chatbot of the Year”
If you are building chatbots, you cannot go wrong with TARS. I have been with this company since their beginning. Seen how they have grown. I have tested a lot of bots, but this one is still the best out there. We use WhatsApp a lot for our business. And what I like best is that I can have 1 chatbot for website and for my WhatsApp. I especially appreciate their support team as well. Whenever I am stuck, they quickly reply to my questions.
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“Advanced integration, easy to use, and very customizable.”
This chatbot does everything from AI integration to complete customization and is excellent for lead conversion in most industries. I think the pre-formatted templates are an excellent boost to get started quickly. The team is also excellent.
Rachel Rowling
Chief Operating Officer
“The chatbot implementation has exceeded expectations!”
The implementation has delivered 24/7 customer support and is proving its value by reducing Contact center calls by around 5% in just four months of operation. Beyond enhancing the e-care experience, the chatbot is driving impressive business results, achieving a remarkable 20% month-on-month growth.
Victor Pereira
Customer Care and CX Manager
“We're saving an average of 4,000+ calls a month.”
Implementing an Agent revolutionized our customer service channels and our service to Indiana business owners. We're saving an average of 4,000+ calls a month and can now provide 24x7x365 customer service️ along with our business services.
Lindsey Roark Mayes
Ex-Director of SOS IT (State of Indiana)
“Cutting down on staff needing to email back.”
Since our launch of Tars Agents, we've had more than 5k interactions with them from individuals on the website. We saw prospects interacting with the Agent regarding application timelines, tuition, curriculum, and other items that may come through an email. This provides another avenue of access to our team while cutting down on staff needing to email back.
Levi Eastwood
Marketing Director of UCI Merage School
“Powerful tool - and there's so much more still to explore!”
I love the flexibility of the TARS chatbot design tool. The ability to drop in a new gambit and easily de-link and re-link gambits before and after it saves HOURS of time lost if I had to regenerate from scratch. TARS stands out for its flexibility, consistent performance, and outstanding support.
Aaron Rittmaster
Founder
“I like the product.”
Takes those boring forms and allows you to make the collecting of customer information enjoyable for the user. It has a lot of value and I see the company constantly working on improving it.
Pierre Rattini
Director of Marketing
“Very responsive and supportive Team”
I love how supportive and responsive the team members are. The chatbots are not difficult to build once you have an idea of what you are doing, and this is so based on the backend work Tars has completed. Also, they are flexible to the clients' requests.
Keisha Cameron
Product Manager
“Easy for cooperation and open to agreement.”
One of the biggest qualities of TARS is their ability to truly understand their clients' needs. They took the time to thoroughly assess our requirements, offering valuable insights and recommendations that we hadn't even considered. This level of personalized attention made a significant difference in the success of our project.
Milica Petrovic
Customer Care Project Associate
“Great service”
The guys at Tars are so passionate about bots and maximum engagement. Tars is overall a great product with really nice people there to help me engage and automate conversations I would have otherwise missed.
Nigel Gosling
Health Coach
“Best in class for lead generation”
TARS is an essential tool within our lead gen strategy. I started to use it a couple years ago, and the platform evolved to focus on results. You can integrate your Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and AdWords conversion tag to track results and measure your campaign. You can also integrate with Zapier, which opens a lot of possibilities. Compared with static landing pages, we have seen an increase in conversions and more engagement.
Leonardo Wolff
Founder
“Very professional and cooperative”
Building an automated chat that our customers actually used and reduced calls amount.
Maryam Alhaddad
Customer Journey Designer
“Flexibility and good service”
Tars platform is very flexible, so you can do pretty much any flux you desire. Also integrates with any third party through APIs with a very simple and easy-to-use interface. Also tars team is great! Always at disposal and brings suggestions and solutions for any issue encountered during the process of building the chatbot.
Lucas Von Lachmann
Process Manager
“Deserved The title of the Best Chatbot of the Year”
If you are building chatbots, you cannot go wrong with TARS. I have been with this company since their beginning. Seen how they have grown. I have tested a lot of bots, but this one is still the best out there. We use WhatsApp a lot for our business. And what I like best is that I can have 1 chatbot for website and for my WhatsApp. I especially appreciate their support team as well. Whenever I am stuck, they quickly reply to my questions.
MJ Felix
Chairman
“Advanced integration, easy to use, and very customizable.”
This chatbot does everything from AI integration to complete customization and is excellent for lead conversion in most industries. I think the pre-formatted templates are an excellent boost to get started quickly. The team is also excellent.
Rachel Rowling
Chief Operating Officer
“The chatbot implementation has exceeded expectations!”
The implementation has delivered 24/7 customer support and is proving its value by reducing Contact center calls by around 5% in just four months of operation. Beyond enhancing the e-care experience, the chatbot is driving impressive business results, achieving a remarkable 20% month-on-month growth.
Victor Pereira
Customer Care and CX Manager

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