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GitLab builds new code management for AI agents
GitLab is engineering an advanced source code management solution to address the significant scaling demands posed by AI coding agents. These agents have increased daily monorepo merges from 2,500 to over 30,000 for clients such as Anthropic. The system's design separates computation from repository storage by utilizing object storage and stateless compute nodes, intending to minimize full repository cloning and network data. Furthermore, GitLab intends to add features for tracking session context, implementing branch policies for agent identification, and contributing to upstream Git to enhance the management of large binary files.
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