GitLab Duo Agent Platform goes public beta

This post announces the public beta of the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, introducing the concept of AI agents and agent Flows for orchestrating complex tasks within the DevSecOps lifecycle. It details the vision for asynchronous collaboration between developers and AI agents, highlighting the unique advantage of GitLab's unified platform context. Specific agents (Chat, Software Developer, Product Planning, Software Test Engineer, Code Reviewer, Platform Engineer, Security Analyst, Deployment Engineer, Deep Research) and Flows (Software Development, Issue-to-MR, Convert CI File, Search and Replace, Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis) are described, emphasizing their ability to interact with GitLab artifacts and leverage the GitLab Knowledge Graph. The post also outlines the strategic evolution from AI features to agent orchestration and the roadmap towards general availability.