GitLab Inc. announced the public beta launch of GitLab Duo Agent Platform, a DevSecOps orchestration platform designed to unlock asynchronous collaboration between developers and AI agents.
GitLab Duo Agent Platform represents a significant advancement in software development by establishing an intelligent orchestration layer that facilitates seamless collaboration between specialized AI agents and human developers. Leveraging GitLab’s role as the system of record for software development, the platform equips AI agents with comprehensive project context, enabling informed decisions that align with organizational standards.
GitLab Duo Agent Platform Capabilities Available Now in Public Beta
The first capabilities for GitLab Duo Agent Platform in public beta, now available to Premium and Ultimate customers, include:
- Software Development Flow: The first orchestrated multi-agent workflow that gathers comprehensive context, clarifies ambiguities with developers, and executes strategic plans to make precise changes to codebases and repositories, leveraging the project structure, codebase, and history along with additional context like GitLab issues or merge requests.
- GitLab Duo Agentic Chat in IDE: Transforms the chat experience from a passive Q&A tool into an active development partner directly in development environments, enabling more sophisticated interactions and task delegation through enhanced capabilities, including:
- Iterative Feedback and Chat History: Enables Duo Agentic Chat to support stateful, conversational partnerships that help foster trust and enable developers to delegate more complex tasks with corrective guidance.
- Streamlined Delegation Through Slash Commands: Expanded commands such as /explain, /tests, and /include that create a “delegation language” for quick and precise intent, with /include allowing explicit context injection from specific files, issues, merge requests, or dependencies.
- Personalization Through Custom Rules: Enables developers to tailor agent behavior to individual and team preferences using natural language for development style guides and organizational policies.
- GitLab Duo Agentic Chat in Web UI: Provides direct access within the GitLab Web UI, evolving the agent from a coding assistant to a true DevSecOps agent with access to rich non-code context and the ability to make changes directly from the Web UI.
- JetBrains IDEs Support: Expands Duo Agentic Chat to the JetBrains family of IDEs, including IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand, and WebStorm, with automatic agentic capabilities for existing users and marketplace installation for new users.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Client Support: Enables Duo Agentic Chat to connect to remote and locally running MCP servers, allowing connections to systems beyond GitLab with any service that exposes itself via MCP, becoming part of the agent’s skill set.
Each month, GitLab plans to increase the scope and quality of the Duo Agent Platform in subsequent 18.x releases, with a target for general availability by the end of the year. To learn more about GitLab Duo Agent Platform capabilities and product roadmap, read the GitLab blog.
