GitLab Transcend: Speed you can trust, all the way to production

This post announces significant advancements in GitLab's agentic software engineering capabilities, focusing on agent orchestration, data/context management, DevOps workflows, and governance/security. Key new features include goal-driven flows for end-to-end change management, custom flows for chaining agents, GitLab for Slack integration for initiating flows from chat, and the MCP Server for secure AI tool integration. It also introduces GitLab-hosted open-weight models for cost optimization, GitLab Orbit for enhanced agent accuracy with a context graph, Duo Agent Platform Impact Analytics for cost/ROI tracking, and credit/usage controls for AI spend. Infrastructure updates include GitLab Artifact Central for unified package management and GitLab Dependency Firewall for package security rules. Governance and security are bolstered by GitLab Secrets Manager for scoped build-time secrets and the GitLab Security Standard for hardening the software factory. New security flows powered by Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and 5.1 are also announced.