GitLab: Built for the agentic engineering era

This post announces and details several new and enhanced AI-related capabilities within GitLab, focusing on agentic engineering. Key announcements include: a next-generation SCM rebuilt for agent-scale concurrency (private beta), GitLab Orbit (public beta) as a context graph for the full SDLC, agents for security and governance for agents (private beta), GitLab Duo Agent Platform (GA) as an orchestration system, and GitLab Flex as a new buying model. The post elaborates on the challenges of agentic coding with current infrastructure, particularly the limitations of traditional Git for machine-scale concurrency and the need for context beyond code. It highlights the performance improvements of the next-gen SCM (up to 2x fewer tokens, 50x faster wall clock time, 1000x less network traffic) and the benefits of Orbit for agent response time (up to 11x faster, 4.5x more cost effective, 45x fewer hallucinations). The introduction of governance for agents emphasizes identity, policy, audit, and approval around agent actions. The GitLab Duo Agent Platform's adoption is noted with a 10x growth in weekly active users. The post also references demos from the Transcend event for each of these components.