GitHub vs GitLab

Pick GitHub if your team already lives in the GitHub ecosystem—Actions, Copilot, and third-party integrations are tighter. The MCP connects to repos, issues, pull requests, and Actions logs with identical OAuth setup to GitLab, but you'll find more community-built prompts and workflows since GitHub's MCP adoption is further along. Pick GitLab if you need built-in CI/CD visibility or your org runs self-hosted instances—the MCP handles on-prem auth better and exposes merge request approvals, pipeline artifacts, and container registry metadata that GitHub's MCP doesn't surface. Both offer 50 tools and identical auth friction, so this comes down to where your repositories live today. Switching after you've wired either into Space automations costs about three days of re-mapping tool calls if you've built custom agents that reference repo structure or CI configs. If you're starting fresh, go with whichever platform hosts your code—the MCP will feel like a native extension rather than a bolt-on.