GitLab BlogMay 30, 2025

GitLab Duo Chat gets agentic AI makeover

Introduction
Use Cases for GitLab Duo Agentic Chat
A Complete Workflow Demonstration in Four Steps
Try it Today and Share Your Feedback
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Introduction

GitLab Duo Agentic Chat is the next generation of chat assistance on the GitLab platform, offering AI-native development assistance. Unlike traditional chatbots, Agentic Chat can take action on your behalf by autonomously gathering information, executing tasks, and providing comprehensive responses. This new feature is currently in experimental release and is available to GitLab.com users with GitLab’s Workflow extension in VS Code.

Use Cases for GitLab Duo Agentic Chat

Onboarding to new projects faster
Verifying solutions against original requirements at release time
Making code edits and implementing solutions

A Complete Workflow Demonstration in Four Steps

Understand the project
- Prompt Agentic Chat for a comprehensive project overview.
- Agentic Chat explores the directory structure, reads README files, and identifies key components.
Understand your assigned task
- Request Agentic Chat to explain the task and propose a refactoring approach.
- Agentic Chat retrieves and analyzes issue details, examines project files, and identifies specific locations requiring changes.
Implement the solution
- Ask Agentic Chat to create new directories and files, refactor code, and ensure consistency.
- Agentic Chat provides a summary of all changes made.
Verify completion
- After creating a merge request, verify your work with Agentic Chat.
- Agentic Chat confirms whether all requirements have been met by analyzing the merge request and original issue.

Try it Today and Share Your Feedback

GitLab Duo Agentic Chat is now available as an experimental feature in VS Code for GitLab Duo Pro and Enterprise users. Follow our setup documentation for prerequisites and configuration steps. Feedback is welcome as we aim to improve response times and add more capabilities in the future.

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