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Specialized agents are here, and they're purpose-built for the way developers actually work. If you build with GitLab, this one is for you. Our latest episode of The Developer Show goes live April 23 at 6 p.m. UTC. Hosts Fatima Sarah Khalid and Colleen Lake are joined by Erran Carey, Principal Fullstack Engineer on GitLab's AI Engineering team, to break down what's new in GitLab 18.11: - The latest agents - Duo CLI in beta - Open source x AI: how skills are shaping the next generation of developer tooling

Meet Nick Skoretz, Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab. His flow state secret? A vinyl record. One side = ~20 minutes. 💽 🎵 ⏲️ When the music stops, he gets up, stretches, flips it, and goes again. No timer required.

Most CI/CD tools can build your code and deploy it. Where they can fall apart is when delivery gets complex: a monorepo with a dozen services, microservices spread across repos, or a platform team trying to enforce standards without becoming a bottleneck. GitLab built its pipeline model for exactly that complexity. Here are 5 patterns that change how you ship:

When software powers vehicles carrying families down the highway, "good enough" isn't good enough. Eric Hulser, Sr. Director of Connected Services at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, on what it takes to ship reliable, safe software at scale, and why his team runs on GitLab to validate every release.

The Developer Show: Specialized Agents & Skills This episode of The Developer Show goes deep on specialized agents and the Duo CLI, two of the biggest highlights from GitLab 18.11. Hosts Fatima Sarah Khalid and Colleen Lake sit down with Erran Carey, Principal Fullstack Engineer on GitLab's AI Engineering team, for a look at how purpose-built agents are changing how developers work. The conversation spans open source, AI-native tooling, and the expanding role of skills in agentic workflows.

Expanding AI usage across your org is harder to justify without spend transparency and controls. GitLab now offers subscription-level and per-user spending caps for GitLab Credits. This gives teams cost predictability, enforcement controls, and a path to deploying GitLab Duo Agent Platform at scale. You get the flexibility of usage-based consumption paired with the cost controls that finance needs to approve the rollout. Learn more. Link in comments.

AI-generated code moves faster than the systems around it can keep up with. In 18.11, GitLab ships two agents built to address the gaps a general-purpose assistant can't. The CI Expert Agent (Beta) inspects your repo and proposes a working pipeline in minutes. The Data Analyst Agent (GA) answers natural-language questions about your SDLC data directly in Agentic Chat, no query language or dashboard request required. Both run inside the platform where your code, pipelines, and issues already live, providing context that no external tool can match. Learn more. Link in comments.

Faster code generation hasn't meant faster delivery. GitLab 18.11 helps address that gap with agentic AI across pipelines, security, and delivery analytics. ✨ What's new: ➡️ Agentic SAST Vulnerability Resolution is now GA, automatically generating ready-to-merge code fixes to close vulnerabilities before they reach production. ➡️ Two new foundational agents join GitLab Duo Agent Platform: the CI Expert Agent (beta) targets a working pipeline in minutes, and the Data Analyst Agent (GA) surfaces live delivery insights in natural language. ➡️ New subscription-level and per-user spending caps for GitLab Credits give organizations control over on-demand AI spend. …and more! Read the full 18.11 release notes: https://lnkd.in/geZP55Mr 🚀

AI-generated code moves faster than the systems around it can keep up with, creating the AI Paradox. As code volume grows, so does the backlog of pipelines to configure, security findings to remediate, and delivery questions to answer. GitLab 18.11 helps address those gaps by applying agentic AI to workflows that come after the code is created, from security remediation to pipeline setup. Highlights include: ⭐ Agentic SAST Vulnerability Resolution (GA) is now available to Ultimate customers, automatically generating ready-to-merge code fixes so teams catch vulnerabilities before they reach production. ⭐ Two new foundational agents: the CI Expert Agent (beta) can help stand up a working CI pipeline in minutes with no manual YAML, and the Data Analyst Agent (GA) answers natural-language questions about merge request cycle times, pipeline health, deployment frequency, and more. ⭐ Usage Controls: New subscription-level and per-user spending caps for GitLab Credits give organizations cost predictability when deploying GitLab Duo Agent Platform at scale. Learn more about the 18.11 release: https://lnkd.in/gka_mTRB Ready to dive deeper into 18.11? The full release blogs are linked in the comments.

Claude Opus 4.7 from Anthropic is now available in GitLab Duo Agent Platform. Available now via model selection. https://lnkd.in/g_vn67ri Teams running agents across code review, CI/CD, and security remediation get stronger reasoning and more precise instruction-following.