Introducing GitLab Orbit

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Introduces GitLab Orbit, a live, queryable graph of code, merge requests, pipelines, deployments, vulnerabilities, and ownership. Orbit aims to improve AI agent performance by providing first-party GitLab data instead of stitched-together tool calls, leading to faster execution, fewer tokens used, and reduced hallucinations. It also enables engineers to answer cross-system questions through a Data Explorer, facilitating incident response, migration planning, and vulnerability blast radius mapping. Orbit works by ingesting SDLC data into ClickHouse and serving it via a Cypher-like DSL, MCP, REST, and the GitLab CLI. It scales to tens of thousands of projects and hundreds of millions of nodes/edges. Authorization mirrors GitLab permissions.