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January 15, 2026

GitLab 18.8 released with GitLab Duo Agent Platform now generally available

GitLab Duo Agent Platform brings agentic AI orchestration to the entire software lifecycle, with expanded security capabilities and flexible usage-based pricing.

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Announcing general availability for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

Discover how agentic AI across the entire software lifecycle translates faster coding into accelerated innovation cycles.

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Introducing GitLab Credits, usage-based pricing for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

Learn how GitLab Credits helps reduce costs and provides flexibility for agentic AI in the enterprise software development lifecycle.

This month’s Notable Contributor: Wesley Yarde

This month’s Notable Contributor is Wesley Yarde for building a foundational new feature that allows organizations to disable SSH keys for their enterprise users.

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Agentic Chat: Intelligent, context-aware assistance

GitLab Duo Agentic Chat brings multi-step reasoning across the GitLab Web UI and IDEs, using full lifecycle context from issues, merge requests, pipelines, and security findings.

Plan

Planner Agent

The Planner Agent helps product managers structure, prioritize, and break down work directly inside GitLab using natural language commands.

Code

Developer (Issue to Merge Request) Flow

The Developer Flow automates the transition from a ready issue to a structured merge request.

Code

Software Development in IDE Flow

The Software Development in IDE Flow guides work through everyday development and review stages directly within your IDE.

Build

Convert to GitLab CI/CD Flow

The Convert to GitLab CI/CD Flow helps teams migrate pipeline configurations without manual rewriting.

Build

Fix CI/CD Pipeline Flow

The Fix CI/CD Pipeline Flow analyzes failures, identifies likely causes, and prepares recommended changes.

Manage

AI Catalog: A unified foundation for AI at work

The AI Catalog is the central place where teams can create, publish, manage, and share the agents and flows they rely on.

Manage

MCP Client: Connect to the tools your teams already use

The MCP Client enables GitLab Duo Agent Platform to securely connect to external systems like Jira, Slack, Confluence, and other MCP-compatible tools.

Manage

Model selection for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

GitLab Duo Agent Platform is built on a flexible model selection framework that lets teams tailor AI behavior to their needs.

Manage

Group access control for GitLab Duo Agent Platform features

Administrators can now define group access rules to control who can use GitLab Duo Agent Platform features, for flexible adoption strategies from immediate organization-wide access to phased rollouts.

Secure

Security Analyst Agent

The Security Analyst Agent lets engineers manage vulnerabilities using natural language commands in GitLab Duo Agentic Chat.

Secure

Manage

Auto-dismiss irrelevant vulnerabilities

Security teams can automatically dismiss vulnerabilities that don't apply to their organization using vulnerability management policies.

Secure

C/C++ support in Advanced SAST (GA)

Cross-file, cross-function scanning support for C/C++ is now generally available in GitLab Advanced SAST.

Secure

Multi-container scanning (Beta)

GitLab 18.8 introduces multi-container scanning in Beta, allowing users to pass in an array of images to be scanned as part of container scanning jobs.

Secure

Manage

Centralized credential management API

The Credentials Inventory API is now available for enterprise users on GitLab.com, providing programmatic access to personal access tokens, group access tokens, project access tokens, SSH keys, and GPG keys for automated security workflows.

Secure

Manage

Group owners can disable SSH keys for enterprise users

Group owners can now disable SSH keys for all enterprise users in their group.

Manage

Introducing GitLab Credits: Usage-based pricing for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

GitLab Credits is a usage-based pricing model for GitLab Duo Agent Platform.

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What's new in GitLab

Monthly releases

GitLab 18.8 released with GitLab Duo Agent Platform now generally available

Announcing general availability for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

GitLab 18.8 Release: Duo Agent Platform is Generally Available

Introducing GitLab Credits, usage-based pricing for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

GitLab Duo Agent Platform Demo: Building Custom AI Agents

This month’s Notable Contributor: Wesley Yarde

Agentic Chat: Intelligent, context-aware assistance

Planner Agent

Developer (Issue to Merge Request) Flow

Software Development in IDE Flow

Convert to GitLab CI/CD Flow

Fix CI/CD Pipeline Flow

AI Catalog: A unified foundation for AI at work

MCP Client: Connect to the tools your teams already use

Model selection for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

Group access control for GitLab Duo Agent Platform features

Security Analyst Agent

Auto-dismiss irrelevant vulnerabilities

C/C++ support in Advanced SAST (GA)

Multi-container scanning (Beta)

Centralized credential management API

Group owners can disable SSH keys for enterprise users

Introducing GitLab Credits: Usage-based pricing for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

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