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      "slug": "gitlab-mcp",
      "name": "GitLab MCP Server",
      "vendor": "GitLab Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://about.gitlab.com",
      "kind": "mcp",
      "category": "code",
      "summary": "GitLab's official MCP server, built into GitLab at /api/v4/mcp, gives MCP clients tools for projects, merge requests, work items, repositories, CI/CD pipelines and GitLab Duo agents, on GitLab.com, Self-Managed and Dedicated.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gitlab-mcp",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gitlab-mcp.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gitlab-mcp.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gitlab-mcp.json",
      "dns": "gitlab-mcp.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
      "transports": [
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 access token with the `mcp` scope, through dynamic client registration (10 registrations an hour per IP) or a pre-registered OAuth application, or a fine-grained personal access token with the MCP tool resource and Execute permission. Legacy, project and group access tokens are refused with 403 `insufficient_scope`. An administrator must first allow MCP access for the top-level group (GitLab.com) or the instance. Pre-registered apps created through the REST API don't enforce PKCE. The endpoint answers 401 with RFC 9728 resource metadata naming gitlab.com as authorisation server.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The MCP server is on Free, Premium and Ultimate since GitLab 19.2. GitLab.com Free is $0 for up to 5 users per top-level group with no card; Premium is $29 a user a month billed annually; Ultimate is by quote. Duo Agent Platform tools need Premium or Ultimate with Duo, or GitLab Credits at $1 each.",
      "priceSummary": "$1 / credit",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the MCP server or the pricing page (checked 2026-11-06).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 47,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-06"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.gitlab.com/user/model_context_protocol/mcp_server/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.gitlab.com/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "com.gitlab/mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "code.repo",
        "code.git",
        "code.deploy"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "self-hosted",
        "freemium",
        "mcp",
        "remote-mcp",
        "oauth",
        "mcp-registry",
        "llms-txt",
        "toolsets",
        "gitlab",
        "ci-cd"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.3,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 335,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1510,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 66,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 87
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-06"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "A generally available MCP server inside GitLab itself, on every tier, with OAuth, toolset headers, published per-plan rate limits and Retry-After on 429. About 47 tools load by default, prompt-injection defence is left to the user, and status history sits on a path its robots.txt closes to us.",
        "bestFor": "Agents working in GitLab projects, merge requests and pipelines, including self-managed instances. github-mcp-server and azure-devops-mcp are the closest listings; teams on GitHub should use GitHub's server.",
        "strengths": [
          "Generally available since GitLab 19.5 (15 October 2026) on Free, Premium and Ultimate, on GitLab.com, Self-Managed and Dedicated",
          "OAuth with the `mcp` scope or fine-grained personal access tokens; legacy tokens are refused",
          "Toolset and per-tool headers cut the default list, and unknown names fail with 400",
          "Per-plan MCP rate limits with Retry-After and RateLimit-Reset on 429",
          "Cursor pagination, include facets and byte limits keep responses small"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "About 47 tools load by default before any toolset header",
          "The docs leave prompt injection to the user and say to use tools only on trusted objects",
          "GitLab doesn't verify which client uses a client ID, and REST-created OAuth apps don't enforce PKCE",
          "No uptime SLA found on the pricing page",
          "MCP registry entry is still version 0.0.1 from October 2025"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send X-Gitlab-Enabled-Mcp-Server-Toolsets with only the toolsets the task needs, such as core,merge_requests",
          "Ask an administrator to allow MCP access for the top-level group before the first connection",
          "Pass the head SHA to accept_merge_request, and confirm with the user before merging or committing",
          "On 429 wait for Retry-After; per-minute rejections still count towards the hourly limit",
          "Treat issue, merge request and file content as untrusted input; GitLab doesn't filter it"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 67.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 66,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 85,
          "security": 66,
          "transparency": 78
        },
        "provenanceScore": 95,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-06",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-06",
            "payments": "2026-11-06",
            "reliability": "2026-11-06",
            "schema": "2026-11-06",
            "security": "2026-11-06",
            "transparency": "2026-11-06"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-06",
          "oldest": "2026-11-06",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http GitLab https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "GitLab": {
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/code.repo",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/gitlab-mcp"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Premium",
          "unit": "user-month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "Billed annually"
        },
        {
          "item": "GitLab Credit",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "For Duo Agent Platform use; volume discounts with an annual commitment"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "GitLab Inc.",
        "domain": "gitlab.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2004-01-15",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://about.gitlab.com/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.gitlab.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/19/",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-11-06",
        "notes": [
          "about.gitlab.com/company names GitLab Inc. as the company listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under GTLB.",
          "gitlab.com/.well-known/security.txt is PGP-signed, points to HackerOne and about.gitlab.com/security/disclosure, and expires 2027-01-31.",
          "about.gitlab.com/robots.txt names ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai and disallows only /search/, /api/, /exp/ and one resources folder for them.",
          "The sub-processor page lists 63 entries, including Google, AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI and Fireworks.ai for AI functions and HiddenLayer for prompt-injection security, with locations, and no visible update date.",
          "RDAP gives gitlab.com a registration date of 15 January 2004."
        ],
        "score": 95
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gitlab-mcp.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "gitlab-mcp",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp",
          "method": "mcp-initialize",
          "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:08.765215305Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 181,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 195,
          "p95ms24h": 315,
          "samples24h": 210,
          "samples30d": 210,
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              "date": "2026-11-06",
              "probes": 13,
              "ok": 13
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-11-07",
              "probes": 197,
              "ok": 197
            }
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.gitlab.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:47:50.529753137Z"
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        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "com.gitlab/mcp",
            "version": "0.0.1",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z"
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        ],
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://gitlab.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2027-01-31T05:00:00.000Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:35.978160451Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.gitlab.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:35.836590435Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/19/",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:06:25.949810739Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e555fad0fadb"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:58:29.597957724Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "205ffc09f256"
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          {
            "url": "https://about.gitlab.com/terms/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:58:31.769260175Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "33bec44fb3b9"
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        ],
        "mcpTools": {
          "url": "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:44:49.273162786Z",
          "status": "auth",
          "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools",
          "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:44:49.273162786Z"
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        "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:08.765215305Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "GitLab MCP Server scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against graft's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. graft leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "slug": "graft",
      "name": "graft",
      "vendor": "Vishisht Choudhary",
      "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "code",
      "summary": "graft is an open-source, self-hosted source control system for monorepos worked on by many coding agents. History, blame, diff, search, commits, rebases and lock-free landing run on the server, each as an HTTP API, with a `gft` CLI.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graft.json",
      "dns": "graft.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-hosted. No authentication unless the operator starts the server with `--acl policy.json`; then bearer tokens in the Authorization header map to principals with repository roles and directory rules. Tokens are listed in the policy file, plain or as `sha256:\u003chex\u003e`. The server listens on 127.0.0.1:7070 by default and has no TLS option.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache 2.0 with nothing to buy. The owner pays for the machines, or for Cloud Spanner and object storage when that backend is used.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source or README (checked 2026-10-15). There is no paid tier.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 0,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 1,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-15"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft#readme",
      "capabilities": [
        "code.git",
        "code.repo"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "apache-2.0",
        "go",
        "cli",
        "pre-1.0",
        "new"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-14",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 52.9,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 974,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1510,
        "categoryRank": 14,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 63,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 64,
          "schema": 32,
          "security": 37,
          "transparency": 57
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-04"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "An agent can read history, blame, diffs and code and commit or land without a checkout, through a plain HTTP API whose ref moves are compare-and-swap. It is v0.1.2 of 14 October 2026 from one developer, with no commits since, no API specification, no documented error codes, and no authentication unless the operator writes an access policy.",
        "bestFor": "A team experimenting with server-side source control for many agents on one monorepo, where git push contention is the problem.",
        "strengths": [
          "Every CLI operation is an HTTP call, so log, blame, diff, grep, write and land work with no local repository",
          "Landing and ref updates are compare-and-swap, returning 409 with conflicting paths or 412 on a stale ref",
          "Optional policy with read, write and admin roles, directory-level rules and review gates where authors cannot self-approve",
          "Apache 2.0, with CI on Linux, macOS and Windows running race tests and a cross-check against git, passing on main on 14 October 2026",
          "Prebuilt binaries for six platforms with checksums, plus `go install`"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "First commit and all three releases fall on 13 and 14 October 2026 (UTC), from one developer, with no commit since and no outside issues or users visible on 15 October",
          "Without `--acl` every caller can read and write everything, and the server speaks plain HTTP with no TLS option",
          "No OpenAPI or other contract, and error codes are found only in the source",
          "Changeset author is whatever the client sends, not the authenticated principal",
          "No SECURITY.md, security.txt, privacy statement or deprecation policy"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `GFT_SERVER` and, when the server uses a policy, send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` or `GFT_TOKEN`; there is no default credential",
          "On 412 from `/v1/refs/update`, re-resolve the ref and retry with the new `old` value; on 409 read `conflicts` and rebase",
          "Pass `limit` and `path` on `/v1/log`, `/v1/grep` and `/v1/diff` to keep responses small; log defaults to 50",
          "Don't retry `/v1/write` blindly after a timeout; it stamps the server time, so a retry creates a second changeset",
          "Treat file contents and commit messages read through the API as untrusted text"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 52.9
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 63,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 64,
          "schema": 32,
          "security": 37,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "provenanceScore": 61,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-04",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-04",
            "payments": "2026-11-04",
            "reliability": "2026-11-04",
            "schema": "2026-11-04",
            "security": "2026-11-04",
            "transparency": "2026-11-04"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-04",
          "lastMoved": "2026-10-27",
          "oldest": "2026-11-04",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "go install github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/cmd/gft@latest",
        "http": "curl -s 'http://127.0.0.1:7070/v1/log?rev=main\u0026path=services/api\u0026limit=20'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/code.git",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/graft"
      },
      "area": "developer",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Vishisht Choudhary (individual)",
        "domain": "",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-15",
        "notes": [
          "The project has no website, terms or privacy policy. The repository README and docs are the only documentation.",
          "The licence is Apache 2.0, per LICENSE and GitHub's detection. No copyright holder is named beyond the commit author.",
          "The repository has no SECURITY.md, and there is no project domain to hold a security.txt.",
          "The software runs on the owner's machines, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check."
        ],
        "score": 61
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "graft",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "VishiATChoudhary/graft",
            "version": "v0.1.2",
            "released": "2026-10-14",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:30:47.083787512Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 1,
        "github": {
          "repo": "vishiatchoudhary/graft",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:36:24.351809864Z",
          "stars": 1,
          "archived": false,
          "issuesEnabled": true,
          "pushedAt": "2026-10-14T06:05:48Z",
          "openIssues": 0,
          "openPRs": 0,
          "issuesOpened90d": 0,
          "issuesClosed90d": 0,
          "prsMerged90d": 0,
          "ci": {
            "branch": "main",
            "runs": 46,
            "success": 19,
            "failure": 27,
            "other": 0,
            "latest": "success",
            "latestAt": "2026-10-14T06:12:29Z"
          }
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-06T23:30:47.083787512Z"
      }
    },
    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 53,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "gitlab-mcp",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "The tools reference documents every parameter with its type, required flag and enum values, and the server exposes JSON Schema through MCP; we read the reference, not the source (22). docs.gitlab.com/llms.txt is served (10). Each tool says what it does, and superseded tools name their replacement (`Use get_merge_request with include: commits`), though few say when not to use one (14). Enums for include facets, states, scopes and methods, with documented maximums such as first up to 100 and byte_limit up to 1 MB (13). The docs cover 403 insufficient_scope, 400 for an unknown toolset, 429 headers and troubleshooting for Windows and Claude Code, but give few example responses (11). Per-tool version history and monthly release notes (15). 22 + 10 + 14 + 13 + 11 + 15 = 85.",
          "b": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract. Request and response shapes exist only as Go structs in internal/api (0). No llms.txt. README, DESIGN.md and ACCESS.md are Markdown on GitHub (5). The README's endpoint table gives one line per endpoint with its query parameters and nothing on when to use one over another (6). Parameters are named but types, defaults and bounds are found only in the source (6). Many CLI examples, but no HTTP request or response examples, and the 400, 403, 404, 409, 412 and 422 responses are not documented (5). Paths under `/v1` and release notes on GitHub for three releases (10). Total 32."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 85,
          "b": 32
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 30,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "graft",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public for Free and Premium, Ultimate is by quote and GitLab Credits are $1 each, but the MCP server has no per-call price (10). GitLab.com Free needs no card, and the MCP server is on every tier (20). A person signs up, and an administrator must enable MCP and a user must authorise in a browser (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.",
          "b": "No payment protocol (0). Read with the self-hosted rule. Free under Apache 2.0 with nothing to buy (20). No card or account (20). Download or `go install` with no signup (20). Total 60."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 30,
          "b": 60
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 30,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "gitlab-mcp",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "GitLab's code is public in gitlab-org/gitlab, with the core under MIT and enterprise functions under GitLab's own licence; we didn't establish which licence covers the MCP server code (20). The privacy statement and a sub-processor page of 63 entries name AI providers and their purposes, but that page shows no update date and links no DPA (20). A dated deprecations and removals page and per-tool version history, with superseded tools kept as callable aliases (20). Sub-processors and their locations are disclosed, and Dedicated customers choose their AWS region (18). 20 + 20 + 20 + 18 = 78.",
          "b": "Apache 2.0 in LICENSE and as detected by GitHub (30). No privacy or data-handling statement. The software is self-hosted and the source we read sends nothing to the author, so data stays with the operator, but nothing says so (10). No deprecation policy, and the release notes are dated only by their GitHub release (2). No telemetry or analytics calls found in the source, and the docs don't address it (10). Total 52."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 87,
          "b": 57
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 29,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "gitlab-mcp",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
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          "b": "Self-hosted server read with the API lines. With no policy, every caller can read and write everything. With `--acl`, static bearer tokens map to principals and can be stored hashed, and revoking means editing the policy. Tokens go only in the Authorization header, but the server has no TLS option (12). Roles none, read, write and admin, directory-level read and write rules checked on every path and on the whole diff of each ref move, admin-only ref deletion, and review gates where authors cannot approve their own changes (17). The API returns repository files and commit messages with no guidance on untrusted content (2). The server logs errors only. Change request comments and approvals record the principal, but a changeset's author is whatever the client sends (4). No SECURITY.md, security.txt or bug bounty. Release checksums are published (2). Total 37."
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  "markdown": "GitLab MCP Server scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against graft's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. graft leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do code repositories.\n\n- GitLab MCP Server: grade B, 67.3/100, rank #335 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gitlab-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gitlab-mcp.json\n- graft: grade D, 52.9/100, rank #974 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graft.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graft.json\n- Best code, repository and documentation tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code/index.md\n- All 70 code comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### GitLab MCP Server (B)\n\nGood for: Agents working in GitLab projects, merge requests and pipelines, including self-managed instances. github-mcp-server and azure-devops-mcp are the closest listings; teams on GitHub should use GitHub's server.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 32\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 37\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 63\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: About 47 tools load by default before any toolset header\n\n### graft (D)\n\nGood for: A team experimenting with server-side source control for many agents on one monorepo, where git push contention is the problem.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First commit and all three releases fall on 13 and 14 October 2026 (UTC), from one developer, with no commit since and no outside issues or users visible on 15 October\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: GitLab MCP Server +53\n\n- GitLab MCP Server (85): The tools reference documents every parameter with its type, required flag and enum values, and the server exposes JSON Schema through MCP; we read the reference, not the source (22). docs.gitlab.com/llms.txt is served (10). Each tool says what it does, and superseded tools name their replacement (`Use get_merge_request with include: commits`), though few say when not to use one (14). Enums for include facets, states, scopes and methods, with documented maximums such as first up to 100 and byte_limit up to 1 MB (13). The docs cover 403 insufficient_scope, 400 for an unknown toolset, 429 headers and troubleshooting for Windows and Claude Code, but give few example responses (11). Per-tool version history and monthly release notes (15). 22 + 10 + 14 + 13 + 11 + 15 = 85.\n- graft (32): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract. Request and response shapes exist only as Go structs in internal/api (0). No llms.txt. README, DESIGN.md and ACCESS.md are Markdown on GitHub (5). The README's endpoint table gives one line per endpoint with its query parameters and nothing on when to use one over another (6). Parameters are named but types, defaults and bounds are found only in the source (6). Many CLI examples, but no HTTP request or response examples, and the 400, 403, 404, 409, 412 and 422 responses are not documented (5). Paths under `/v1` and release notes on GitHub for three releases (10). Total 32.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: graft +30\n\n- GitLab MCP Server (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public for Free and Premium, Ultimate is by quote and GitLab Credits are $1 each, but the MCP server has no per-call price (10). GitLab.com Free needs no card, and the MCP server is on every tier (20). A person signs up, and an administrator must enable MCP and a user must authorise in a browser (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.\n- graft (60): No payment protocol (0). Read with the self-hosted rule. Free under Apache 2.0 with nothing to buy (20). No card or account (20). Download or `go install` with no signup (20). Total 60.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: GitLab MCP Server +30\n\n- GitLab MCP Server (87): GitLab's code is public in gitlab-org/gitlab, with the core under MIT and enterprise functions under GitLab's own licence; we didn't establish which licence covers the MCP server code (20). The privacy statement and a sub-processor page of 63 entries name AI providers and their purposes, but that page shows no update date and links no DPA (20). A dated deprecations and removals page and per-tool version history, with superseded tools kept as callable aliases (20). Sub-processors and their locations are disclosed, and Dedicated customers choose their AWS region (18). 20 + 20 + 20 + 18 = 78.\n- graft (57): Apache 2.0 in LICENSE and as detected by GitHub (30). No privacy or data-handling statement. The software is self-hosted and the source we read sends nothing to the author, so data stays with the operator, but nothing says so (10). No deprecation policy, and the release notes are dated only by their GitHub release (2). No telemetry or analytics calls found in the source, and the docs don't address it (10). Total 52.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: GitLab MCP Server +29\n\n- GitLab MCP Server (66): OAuth with dynamic registration and a single `mcp` scope that carries the user's own GitLab permissions, or fine-grained personal access tokens scoped to the MCP tool resource. The docs say GitLab doesn't verify which client uses a client ID and that REST-created apps don't enforce PKCE (22). Toolset and tool headers narrow the surface, an administrator must enable MCP for the group or instance, 19.4 governance defaults writes to Always Ask in Duo settings and 19.6 adds group rules enforced for every client, in beta (16). The docs leave prompt injection to the user (\"use MCP tools only on GitLab objects you trust\") (5). GitLab audit events exist on paid tiers, but we didn't read whether MCP calls are recorded (8). security.txt is valid until 31 January 2027 and points at a public HackerOne programme; certifications weren't read this run (15). 22 + 16 + 5 + 8 + 15 = 66.\n- graft (37): Self-hosted server read with the API lines. With no policy, every caller can read and write everything. With `--acl`, static bearer tokens map to principals and can be stored hashed, and revoking means editing the policy. Tokens go only in the Authorization header, but the server has no TLS option (12). Roles none, read, write and admin, directory-level read and write rules checked on every path and on the whole diff of each ref move, admin-only ref deletion, and review gates where authors cannot approve their own changes (17). The API returns repository files and commit messages with no guidance on untrusted content (2). The server logs errors only. Change request comments and approvals record the principal, but a changeset's author is whatever the client sends (4). No SECURITY.md, security.txt or bug bounty. Release checksums are published (2). Total 37.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: GitLab MCP Server +22\n\n- GitLab MCP Server (85): GitLab 19.5 made the server generally available on 15 October 2026, 22 days before this check, and 19.6 changes are already on GitLab.com (30). Monthly releases 19.3, 19.4 (17 September) and 19.5 each changed MCP tools (20). Issues are public on gitlab.com, with a feedback issue (630189) for the server, but we didn't measure reply times (15). The registry entry com.gitlab/mcp sits under a domain-verified namespace with the right remote, though its version is still 0.0.1 from 2 October 2025 (10). GitLab ships through its own CI with monthly and patch releases; no official multi-language API SDK was found (10). 30 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 10 = 85.\n- graft (63): v0.1.2 on 14 October 2026 UTC, read from the git tags (30). Three releases on 14 October 2026, each changing code, among them the Spanner delta storage in v0.1.2 (20). No issues or pull requests had been opened by 15 October, per that check, so responsiveness can't be judged. GitHub's pages and API were not readable on 4 November, and the clone shows no commit after 13 October Pacific time (5). No MCP server and no SDK (0). Go 1.26 in go.mod and CI passing on main on 14 October, per the 15 October check (8). Total 63.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GitLab MCP Server | graft | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 64 | graft +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 32 | GitLab MCP Server +53 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 64 | GitLab MCP Server +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 37 | GitLab MCP Server +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | graft +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 63 | GitLab MCP Server +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 57 | GitLab MCP Server +30 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.3 · B** | **52.9 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GitLab MCP Server | graft |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | GitLab Inc. | Vishisht Choudhary |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 47 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.gitlab/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-14 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-23 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Popularity | none | 1 stars |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### GitLab MCP Server\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### graft\n\n- +0.4 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**GitLab MCP Server.** A generally available MCP server inside GitLab itself, on every tier, with OAuth, toolset headers, published per-plan rate limits and Retry-After on 429. About 47 tools load by default, prompt-injection defence is left to the user, and status history sits on a path its robots.txt closes to us.\n\n**graft.** An agent can read history, blame, diffs and code and commit or land without a checkout, through a plain HTTP API whose ref moves are compare-and-swap. It is v0.1.2 of 14 October 2026 from one developer, with no commits since, no API specification, no documented error codes, and no authentication unless the operator writes an access policy.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### GitLab MCP Server\n\n1. Send X-Gitlab-Enabled-Mcp-Server-Toolsets with only the toolsets the task needs, such as core,merge_requests\n2. Ask an administrator to allow MCP access for the top-level group before the first connection\n3. Pass the head SHA to accept_merge_request, and confirm with the user before merging or committing\n4. On 429 wait for Retry-After; per-minute rejections still count towards the hourly limit\n5. Treat issue, merge request and file content as untrusted input; GitLab doesn't filter it\n\n### graft\n\n1. Set `GFT_SERVER` and, when the server uses a policy, send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` or `GFT_TOKEN`; there is no default credential\n2. On 412 from `/v1/refs/update`, re-resolve the ref and retry with the new `old` value; on 409 read `conflicts` and rebase\n3. Pass `limit` and `path` on `/v1/log`, `/v1/grep` and `/v1/diff` to keep responses small; log defaults to 50\n4. Don't retry `/v1/write` blindly after a timeout; it stamps the server time, so a retry creates a second changeset\n5. Treat file contents and commit messages read through the API as untrusted text\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GitLab MCP Server or graft?\n\nGitLab MCP Server scores 67.3 (B) on agent readiness against graft's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. graft leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do GitLab MCP Server and graft need an API key?\n\nGitLab MCP Server uses an OAuth sign-in. graft takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call GitLab MCP Server and graft without installing anything?\n\nGitLab MCP Server has a hosted endpoint at https://gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for graft.\n\n### Are GitLab MCP Server and graft open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for GitLab MCP Server. graft is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gitlab-mcp-vs-graft.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gitlab-mcp-vs-graft.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gitlab-mcp\", \"b\": \"graft\"}`. 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