# interactive — gitlab > 4 actions > This page as plain markdown. Index: https://mcp.jmrp.io/llms.txt Canonical: https://mcp.jmrp.io/servers/gitlab/actions/interactive/ Language: en Alternate: https://mcp.jmrp.io/es/servers/gitlab/actions/interactive/index.md Updated: 2026-09-22T21:41:36+02:00 License: https://mcp.jmrp.io/license/ 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 765 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 ### `interactive.issue_create` — Interactive Issue Create Create a GitLab issue through step-by-step prompts, with explicit confirmation before calling the GitLab API. Canceling at any prompt aborts without creating the issue. Input: project_id (numeric ID or URL-encoded path) selects the target project. Prompted fields are title, description, labels, confidential, and confirm. Requires permission to create issues in that project. After invocation, the tool elicits in order: - title (string, required): issue title. - description (string, optional, multi-line, Markdown): leave empty to skip. - labels (string, optional): comma-separated. Trimmed and deduped server-side. - confidential (boolean, optional): yes/no confirmation. Defaults to public when declined. - confirm (boolean, required): final yes/no review of the assembled summary. Behavior: canceling at any prompt aborts with no GitLab API call and no side effects. Declining an optional prompt continues with that field unset. Each confirmed invocation creates ONE new issue. NON-idempotent: re-running with the same title/fields creates another issue. Side effects on success: GitLab fires issue-created webhooks and may notify issue subscribers. When to use: human-in-the-loop issue creation. NOT for: scripted/programmatic creation. Use gitlab_issue (action='create') with all fields pre-supplied. Requires the MCP client to support the elicitation capability. If unsupported, returns a structured error naming gitlab_issue (action='create') as the alternative. Returns: JSON with the created issue (id, issue_iid, web_url, title, state). issue_iid corresponds to GitLab's iid field. See also: issue.create, issue.get. ### `interactive.mr_create` — Interactive MR Create Create a GitLab merge request through step-by-step prompts, with explicit confirmation before calling the GitLab API. Canceling at any prompt aborts without creating the MR. Input: project_id (numeric ID or URL-encoded path) selects the target project. Prompted fields are source_branch, target_branch, title, description, labels, remove_source_branch, squash, and confirm. Requires permission to create merge requests in that project. After invocation, the tool elicits in order: - source_branch (string, required): branch with the changes to merge. - target_branch (string, required): branch to merge into (e.g. main, develop). - title (string, required): MR title. - description (string, optional, multi-line, Markdown): leave empty to skip. - labels (string, optional): comma-separated. Trimmed and deduped server-side. - remove_source_branch (boolean, optional): yes/no confirmation, default unset. - squash (boolean, optional): yes/no confirmation, default unset. - confirm (boolean, required): final yes/no review of the assembled summary. Behavior: canceling at any prompt aborts with no GitLab API call and no side effects. Declining an optional prompt continues with that field unset. Each confirmed invocation creates ONE new merge request. NON-idempotent: GitLab rejects an already-open MR for the same source_branch to target_branch in the same project as a validation failure (HTTP 422). Retries may fail with 422 instead of returning the existing MR. Confirm branch/MR state before re-running. For scripted idempotent workflows, use gitlab_merge_request (action='create') with all fields pre-supplied and handle 422 as the expected duplicate case. When to use: human-in-the-loop MR creation. NOT for: scripted/programmatic creation. Use gitlab_merge_request (action='create') with all fields pre-supplied. Requires the MCP client to support the elicitation capability. If unsupported, returns a structured error naming gitlab_merge_request (action='create') as the alternative. Returns: JSON with the created MR (id, merge_request_iid, web_url, title, source_branch, target_branch, state). merge_request_iid corresponds to GitLab's iid field. See also: merge_request.create, branch.create. ### `interactive.project_create` — Interactive Project Create Create a GitLab project through step-by-step prompts, with explicit confirmation before calling the GitLab API. Canceling at any prompt aborts without creating the project. Declining an optional prompt continues with that field unset, except initialize_with_readme, where a decline continues with false. Input: no fields. Every project detail is elicited. Requires permission to create projects for the authenticated user. After invocation, the tool elicits in order: - name (string, required): project display name and (when path is omitted) URL slug. - description (string, optional): leave empty to skip. - visibility (enum, required): one of private, internal, public. - initialize_with_readme (boolean, optional): yes/no confirmation. An explicit no or a decline continues with false. Canceling aborts the flow. - default_branch (string, optional): leave empty to use the GitLab default ('main'). - confirm (boolean, required): final yes/no review of the assembled summary. When to use: human-in-the-loop project creation. NOT for: scripted/programmatic creation. Use gitlab_project (action='create') with all fields pre-supplied. Behavior: each successful invocation creates ONE new project after explicit user confirmation. NON-idempotent: re-running with the same project path/name can fail with 400/409. Canceling at any prompt aborts with no GitLab API call and no side effects. Declining an optional prompt continues, with initialize_with_readme taking a decline as false. Side effects on success: GitLab may initialize a repository and notify project members. Requires the MCP client to support the elicitation capability. If unsupported, returns a structured error naming gitlab_project (action='create') as the alternative. Returns: JSON with the created project (id, path_with_namespace, web_url, visibility, default_branch). See also: project.get, group.get. ### `interactive.release_create` — Interactive Release Create Create a GitLab release through step-by-step prompts, with explicit confirmation before calling the GitLab API. Canceling or declining any prompt aborts without creating the release. Input: project_id (numeric ID or URL-encoded path) selects the target project. Prompted fields are tag_name, name, description, and confirm. Requires permission to create releases in that project. After invocation, the tool elicits in order: - tag_name (string, required): must reference an existing tag in the project. Create it first via gitlab_tag (action='create'). - name (string, optional): release title. Answer with an empty value to let GitLab name the release after the tag. Declining the prompt aborts. - description (string, optional, multi-line, Markdown): release notes. Leave empty to skip. - confirm (boolean, required): final yes/no review of the assembled summary. When to use: human-in-the-loop release publishing. NOT for: CI/automated release creation. Use gitlab_release (action='create') with all fields pre-supplied. Requires the MCP client to support the elicitation capability. If unsupported, returns a structured error naming gitlab_release (action='create') as the alternative. Behavior: each successful invocation publishes ONE new release after explicit user confirmation. NON-idempotent: re-running with the same tag returns 409 (release already exists). Canceling or declining any prompt aborts with no GitLab API call and no side effects. This flow's optional fields take an empty answer rather than a decline. Side effects on success: GitLab fires release-created webhooks and may notify release subscribers. Returns: JSON with the created release (tag_name, name, description, web_url). See also: release.create, tag.create.