# ci_variable — gitlab

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Alternate: https://mcp.jmrp.io/es/servers/gitlab/actions/ci_variable/index.md
Updated: 2026-09-11T09:56:41+02:00
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Counted with a Free-tier token against gitlab.com, which is the only host this endpoint talks to: to use it against a self-managed instance, run the server yourself — its documentation covers that. The catalog is scoped to the token that asks, so the count moves with both its tier and its permissions: higher tiers expose more actions, and administration domains only appear to tokens allowed to use them. That is why the figures differ elsewhere: the upstream project catalogues 1,006 actions across 162 domains, and 851 on the Free/CE surface, while this deployment publishes 747 because it is OAuth-only and acts with your token, so the administration domains a non-admin account cannot call never appear. All three describe the same catalog, counted from three vantage points.

## Actions

### `ci_variable.create` — CI Variable Create

Create a CI/CD variable in a project with type, environment scope, and protected/masked/raw/masked_and_hidden flags. Returns: the created variable's key, value (redacted when masked or hidden), type, flags, environment scope, and description. See also: ci_variable.list, ci_variable.get, ci_variable.update.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`, `project_id (string)`, `value (string)`

### `ci_variable.delete` — CI Variable Delete

_destructive_

Delete a CI/CD variable by key, selecting an environment-scoped instance via the filter. Returns: a success confirmation message. See also: ci_variable.list, ci_variable.get.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`, `project_id (string)`

### `ci_variable.get` — CI Variable Get

_read-only_

Get a single CI/CD variable by key, optionally selecting an environment-scoped instance via the filter. Returns: the variable's key, value (redacted when masked or hidden), type, protected/masked/hidden/raw flags, environment scope, and description. See also: ci_variable.list, ci_variable.update, ci_variable.delete.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`, `project_id (string)`

### `ci_variable.group_create` — Group Variable Create

Create a CI/CD variable in a group with type, environment scope, and protected/masked/raw/masked_and_hidden flags. Returns: the created variable's key, value, type, flags, environment scope, and description. See also: ci_variable.group_list, ci_variable.group_get, ci_variable.group_update.

**Required parameters:** `group_id (string)`, `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.group_delete` — Group Variable Delete

_destructive_

Delete a group CI/CD variable by key, selecting an environment-scoped instance via the filter. Returns: a success confirmation message. See also: ci_variable.group_list, ci_variable.group_get.

**Required parameters:** `group_id (string)`, `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.group_get` — Group Variable Get

_read-only_

Get a single group CI/CD variable by key, optionally selecting an environment-scoped instance via the filter. Returns: the variable's key, value, type, protected/masked/hidden/raw flags, environment scope, and description. See also: ci_variable.group_list, ci_variable.group_update, ci_variable.group_delete.

**Required parameters:** `group_id (string)`, `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.group_list` — Group Variable List

_read-only_

List a group's CI/CD variables with order_by, sort, and offset or keyset pagination. Returns: each variable's key, value, type, protected/masked/hidden/raw flags, environment scope, description, and pagination metadata. See also: ci_variable.group_get, ci_variable.group_create, ci_variable.group_update.

**Required parameters:** `group_id (string)`

### `ci_variable.group_update` — Group Variable Update

Update a group CI/CD variable, selecting an environment-scoped instance via the filter. Returns: the updated variable's key, value, type, protected/masked/hidden/raw flags, environment scope, and description. See also: ci_variable.group_get, ci_variable.group_list, ci_variable.group_delete.

**Required parameters:** `group_id (string)`, `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.instance_create` — Instance Variable Create

Create an instance-level CI/CD variable with type and protected/masked/raw flags (admin-only). Returns: the created variable's key, value (raw even when masked, because masking redacts CI job logs, not this API), type, flags, and description. See also: ci_variable.instance_list, ci_variable.instance_get, ci_variable.instance_update.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.instance_delete` — Instance Variable Delete

_destructive_

Delete an instance-level CI/CD variable by key (admin-only). Returns: a success confirmation message. See also: ci_variable.instance_list, ci_variable.instance_get.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.instance_get` — Instance Variable Get

_read-only_

Get a single instance-level CI/CD variable by key (admin-only). Returns: the variable's key, value (raw even when masked, because masking redacts CI job logs, not this API), type, protected/masked/raw flags, and description. See also: ci_variable.instance_list, ci_variable.instance_update, ci_variable.instance_delete.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.instance_list` — Instance Variable List

_read-only_

List instance-level CI/CD variables with order_by, sort, and offset or keyset pagination (admin-only). Returns: each variable's key, value (raw even when masked, because masking redacts CI job logs, not this API), type, protected/masked/raw flags, description, and pagination metadata. See also: ci_variable.instance_get, ci_variable.instance_create, ci_variable.instance_update, ci_variable.instance_delete.

### `ci_variable.instance_update` — Instance Variable Update

Update an instance-level CI/CD variable by key, with type and protected/masked/raw flags (admin-only). Returns: the updated variable's key, value (raw even when masked, because masking redacts CI job logs, not this API), type, protected/masked/raw flags, and description. See also: ci_variable.instance_get, ci_variable.instance_list, ci_variable.instance_delete.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`

### `ci_variable.list` — CI Variable List

_read-only_

List a project's CI/CD variables with order_by, sort, and offset or keyset pagination. Returns: each variable's key, type, protected/masked/hidden/raw flags, environment scope, description, and pagination metadata. See also: ci_variable.get, ci_variable.create, ci_variable.update.

**Required parameters:** `project_id (string)`

### `ci_variable.update` — CI Variable Update

Update a CI/CD variable, selecting an environment-scoped instance via the filter. Returns: the updated variable's key, value (redacted when masked or hidden), type, protected/masked/hidden/raw flags, environment scope, and description. See also: ci_variable.get, ci_variable.list, ci_variable.delete.

**Required parameters:** `key (string)`, `project_id (string)`