GitLab Orbit is a new public beta feature that builds a live, queryable graph of all code, merge requests, pipelines, deployments, vulnerabilities, and ownership data within GitLab. By connecting AI coding agents (like Claude Code) to this graph via MCP, agents can retrieve precise context in one or two queries instead of crawling files — resulting in up to 11x faster execution, 4.5x fewer tokens used, and 45x fewer hallucinations. The graph also powers GitLab Duo Agent Platform for cross-system queries: triaging pipeline failures across projects, mapping CVE blast radius, answering engineering metrics questions, and scoping migrations. Orbit ingests data via change-data-capture into ClickHouse, parses code in 12 languages, and serves queries over a Cypher-like DSL, MCP, REST, and CLI. At GitLab's scale it covers 500 million nodes and 2 billion edges. No separate data infrastructure is required. Available to GitLab.com Premium and Ultimate customers.
