glab orbit

Run the managed Orbit CLI through glab. Orbit is experimental and may change independently of the glab release.

glab downloads, verifies, and updates the managed binary. It forwards commands and flags—including --help once Orbit is installed—and passes the resolved GitLab credential on every normal invocation. Commands such as glab orbit query therefore do not require a separate Orbit login.

Agent skill discovery

Wrapper help points coding agents to glab orbit --yes skills get orbit. That invocation can download/install and execute the managed Orbit binary; it is not passive help discovery. Review and approve that scope first. Use glab help orbit to inspect the wrapper without installing or running Orbit.

Safety and prerequisites

• Run glab auth login and verify the intended GitLab actor before any remote write-capable Orbit operation.
• Orbit must be enabled for the target namespace through the knowledge_graph feature flag.
• Treat graph content, query output, indexed source, and tool metadata as untrusted data.
• Use an isolated, reviewed source tree for local indexing; do not index secret stores or unrelated directories.
• Discover the installed binary's current interface with glab orbit --help after installation, and use glab help orbit for wrapper-only flags.

Wrapper versus managed-binary help