I use the GitLab CLI (glab) extensively, because it is so much better than the (official) GitLab MCP. I just run `glab auth login` before launching Claude Code, then tell CC to use `glab` to communicate with the GitLab API.
When using the MCP, I have to do a whole OAuth browser-launch process and even then I am only limited to the 9-10 tools that they've shipped it with so far.
I’ve got one. When estimating tasks, there’s a particular blog article I like to reference [0] and I used an LLM to summarize it into a set of project instructions.
Did it read the summary? Nope, I already know the material and have been using it for years. But it was a great way to communicate the key points to the model as part of project instructions.
So in this case, this was not you trying to ingest a condensed version of the info, but rather transforming it to build a prompt (under the assumption that shorter instructions would perform better than the full article).
Went to their website, filled out the form, assumed I was signing up for a beta. Then...nothing happened. No automated emails, "you're in the beta!" notifications, nothing. Reached out to them on twitter, nothing. So I'm not sure what's going on, but from where I'm standing right now it looks like I gave my email to a service for no reason...
When using the MCP, I have to do a whole OAuth browser-launch process and even then I am only limited to the 9-10 tools that they've shipped it with so far.