GitLab Code Review includes worked examples; 5 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 1,501 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
GitLab Code Review sits in the Science & Research category under the research-methods sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Perform comprehensive code reviews of GitLab merge requests, providing actionable feedback on code quality, security, performance, and best practices.
GitLab Code Review is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/gitlab-code-review/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user says "review" or "code review" or asks to review merge requests or analyze branch changes before merging.
The GitLab Code Review Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/gitlab-code-review curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/gitlab-code-review/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/gitlab-code-review/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/gitlab-code-review/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/gitlab-code-review/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\gitlab-code-review\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/gitlab-code-review/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. GitLab Code Review is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{gitlab-code-review-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {GitLab Code Review [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/gitlab-code-review/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-06-13 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›
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