GitLab Delivers on AI Agents Promise to Automate DevOps Workflows
devops.com, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
GitLab today made generally available an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform that automates software engineering tasks ranging from planning to application security.
Coinciding with the release of version 18.8 of the core GitLab platform, the GitLab Duo Agent Platform initially provides access to seven AI agents that DevOps teams can assign a range of tasks across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Multi-step reasoning capabilities make it possible for the AI agents to answer complex questions and perform autonomous actions, including merge requests, using multiple types of AI models that DevOps teams can choose as they prefer.
DevOps engineers via a chat interface, for example, can generate and customize code and configurations across multiple languages and frameworks, including GitLab WebIDE, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor, and Windsurf. Optional user and workspace-level rules can then be applied to tailor the output generated by the AI agent.