Connect GitLab to Well
Well brings company structure and people records from GitLab into your business context
What Well pulls from GitLab
GitLab feeds merge request, pipeline, author into Well as a source. The connection is read-only; disconnect at any time from your workspace settings to revoke GitLab’s access.
| From GitLab | In Well | Relation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merge request | Work item | Indexes as | |
| Pipeline | Build record | Becomes | |
| Author | Team member | Resolves to | |
| Issue | Work item | Indexes as |
- Sync mode
- MCP hybrid
- Refresh
- live + reconciliation reads
- Direction
- GitLab → Well
What Well does with your GitLab connection
Connect
Connect GitLab over OAuth (MCP DCR): Well registers a client through GitLab's OAuth Dynamic Client Registration and you approve on GitLab's side, so the password never reaches Well; Well holds only a scoped token it can refresh.
Sync
Well brings merge request, pipeline, and author in from GitLab through live reads, backed by a periodic reconciliation pass. The first sync backfills history in the background and the connection stays live after.
Enrich
Well resolves each GitLab entity into work item, build record, and team member, assigns categories, and links every record to an audit trail across the rest of your connected tools.
Available
Your data from GitLab lands in the workspace as work item, build record, and team member you can search, chart, and automate.
Questions GitLab unlocks
Ask in plain language. Well answers from your connected GitLab connection, resolved against the rest of your stack.
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1 agent skill runs on GitLab.
Well lists GitLab in the connection check every skill runs before it answers. No skill reads it for a figure yet.
Connects and checks GitLab
Connect GitLab in three steps
- 01
Select GitLab in Well
Find GitLab in the source directory and initiate the connection.
- AuthOAuth (MCP DCR)
- DiscoveryMCP .well-known
- MCP servergitlab.com/api/v4/mcp
- 02
Map your entities
Authorize Well to access your GitLab company and people details.
- Mappingpreconfigured by Well
- 03
Use the data
Confirm the connection to begin bringing GitLab context into Well.
- First syncstarts as soon as connect completes
Well reads GitLab data securely in the background.
How GitLab stays secure with Well
Well connects to GitLab's MCP server (gitlab.com/api/v4/mcp) via the Model Context Protocol. The MCP server itself handles credential issuance through OAuth Dynamic Client Registration; Well never sees a long-lived GitLab secret. Tokens are scoped to the merge request, pipeline, author, and issue GitLab exposes and refreshed server-side. Reads only, Well cannot modify or delete GitLab records.
- granted
Read GitLab records
Resources the GitLab MCP server exposes, scoped by your OAuth approval.
- granted
Resolve merge request, pipeline, author, and issue across your stack
Match identifiers in GitLab against the same entities your other connected tools expose, so each record carries cross-tool context.
- refused
Modify or delete GitLab records
Not granted; GitLab is read-only in Well. Write-back is opt-in per connector when a write surface exists.
- refused
Store GitLab passwords or session cookies
Authentication runs through OAuth (MCP DCR) tokens we never see.
Frequently asked questions about GitLab and Well
What information does Well extract from GitLab?
Well reads company profile information and people records from your GitLab organization.
Does Well push changes back to GitLab?
No, Well only reads data from GitLab. It has no write channel and cannot modify your GitLab account.
How does Well keep GitLab data updated?
Well regularly pulls company and people data in the background to ensure your organization view stays accurate.
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