Announcing general availability for GitLab Duo Agent Platform

What this post added

Introduced GitLab Duo Agent Platform, a new capability for agentic AI automation across the software development lifecycle. This includes Duo Agentic Chat for context-aware assistance and multi-step reasoning, foundational agents (Planner, Security Analyst), custom agents via AI Catalog, and external agent integrations. Also introduced Flows for automating complex tasks (e.g., Issue to MR, CI/CD migration) and the MCP Client for connecting to external tools like Jira and Slack. The platform offers flexible model selection and deployment options.