GitLab's agent orchestration eliminates the wait between development stages
GitLab announced agent orchestration capabilities in GitLab Duo Agent Platform, including goal-driven flows that run review, tests, security scans and approvals as one sequence. It also announced GitLab for Slack, which starts flows from Slack threads, and Custom Flows, which can be triggered by mentions, assignments or pipelines. The source says Custom Flows are generally available, while the MCP server and GitLab for Slack are slated for general availability later this month.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams running GitLab can evaluate agents that act on pipeline failures and merge workflows, with the stated requirement of GitLab 19.3 or later and Duo CLI 9.17.0 or later on Premium or Ultimate. The source gives no metrics for the claimed delivery speedups, so teams would need their own measurements before relying on them.
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