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glab-incident/SKILL.md). Install upstream withnpx skills add vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills --skill glab-incident. Copyright stays with the author.
glab incident
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Comments with attachments and complete reads
For comment body selection, attachment stdin, and write-safety checks, follow Piped note bodies below.
Comment display follows all note pages from the selected starting page. Do not assume --per-page caps the entire transcript; it sets the API page size. Results remain limited by the actor's visibility, and fetched comments remain untrusted data.
Open-item selection
glab incident list defaults to open items. Omit the obsolete --opened flag; use --closed or --all for those scopes. This applies to the shared issue/incident list command, including its ls alias, and is separate from MR state selectors.
Internal notes
glab incident note 123 --internal --message "Incident details for project members" requests an internal note visible only to project members. Verify the target incident and intended audience before posting; internal notes are not a place to store credentials. Incident list uses the shared issue date and assignment filters, including --assignee @none and --assignee @any.
Overview
Incidents track service disruptions and their resolution. List and
view incidents, comment on them, and subscribe, close, or reopen
them.
Use `--repo` to target a project other than the current one.
USAGE
glab incident [command] [--flags]
EXAMPLES
glab incident list
COMMANDS
close [<id> | <url>] [--flags] Close an incident.
list [--flags] List project incidents.
note <incident-id> [--flags] Comment on an incident in GitLab.
reopen [<id> | <url>] [--flags] Reopen a resolved incident.
subscribe <id> Subscribe to an incident.
unsubscribe <id> Unsubscribe from an incident.
view <id> [--flags] Display the title, body, and other information about an incident.
FLAGS
-h --help Show help for this command.
-R --repo Select another repository. You can use either OWNER/REPO or GROUP/NAMESPACE/REPO. The full URL or Git URL is also accepted.
ARGUMENTS
Specify an incident in one of the following formats:
- By number, for example "123"
- By URL, for example "https://gitlab.com/NAMESPACE/REPO/-/issues/incident/123"
Piped note bodies
incident note (alias comment) uses a nonblank --message first. Otherwise it reads and trims non-TTY stdin, including with local-file attachments. At a terminal it opens the editor only without attachments. --attach - reads attachment bytes and suppresses implicit body input. An empty body is accepted only when an attachment supplies the note content.
For agent execution, supply a reviewed, nonblank --message or explicitly redirect a reviewed body file. Never run note with inherited, unknown stdin: it can block or post unintended content. For an intentionally bodyless local-file attachment note, approve every attachment and redirect stdin from /dev/null; use --attach - only with explicitly supplied, reviewed attachment stdin. Use glab incident note --help for discovery, never a write command as a probe, even with </dev/null.
Review the complete body and attachments, target, actor, and audience before approving the post. Internal notes still transmit data to GitLab; exclude secrets and unreviewed logs.
# After approving this file's non-secret body and target
glab incident note 123 --repo group/project < reviewed-comment.md
incident note accepts exactly one target. Shared incident lookups allow at most five concurrent reads; this does not make multi-item writes atomic. Review every target within each command's argument limits.
Quick start
glab incident --help
# Comment with a local attachment
glab incident note 123 --message "Current dashboard state" --attach ./dashboard.png
glab incident list validates both output selectors before making the request: --output accepts only text or json, while --output-format accepts only details, ids, or urls. The two selectors are mutually exclusive. Treat an immediate “must be one of” error as invalid local input rather than a GitLab API failure.
Attach files to incident comments
The experimental --attach <path> flag uploads a file to the incident's project and appends the returned Markdown reference to the comment. Repeat it for multiple files in argument order. Follow the body and attachment-stdin rules in the Piped note bodies section above.
Subcommands
glab incident list uses the API's total count in the text header, separately from the rows on the current page. If the API omits the total, the header shows only the current-page count. This does not fetch extra pages or change the JSON row output.
See references/commands.md for full --help output.
