GitLab 19.4 adds agentic automation tools and lower-cost AI models

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GitLab 19.4 Brings New Agentic Automation at a Lower Cost

September 17, 2026 4:30 PM EDT

/goal in GitLab Duo CLI, now in public beta, lets developers automate an open-ended objective to a governed agentic flow that runs locally and verifies its own work, so a developer directs an outcome instead of supervising each step. New GitLab-hosted open weight models in GitLab Duo Agent Platform offer lower costs with up to 4x more calls per credit at the performance comparable to frontier models. New GitLab MCP server tools, now in public beta, lets agents automate full tasks across CI/CD, merge requests, work items, vulnerabilities,... More