Agent Foundations

The Agent Foundations stage builds the foundations for GitLab’s agentic AI experiences, including Agent Developer, AI Catalog, and Agent Execution.

🚀 Mission

The Agent Foundations stage builds the foundations for GitLab’s agentic AI experiences. We provide the platform, catalog, and execution capabilities that help teams deliver resilient agents and flows for customers.


🧭 Groups

The stage is made up of three groups, each with its individual teams:

Team What they own EM PM UX
Agent Developer The GitLab Duo Developer foundational flow and flow registry improvements Annie Ying Frances Wang N/A
AI Catalog AI Catalog, custom agents, custom flows, and external agent integrations Jafar Soltani Roman Kolosovskiy Michael Moeyers
Agent Execution Agentic observability, agent execution on GitLab runners, and agent tools Sebastian Rehm Amanda Rueda Emily Bauman

👥 Leadership

Name Role
Sebastian RehmSebastian Rehm Manager, Fullstack Engineering, AI-Powered:Duo Workflow

🤝 Stable counterparts

The following people are stable counterparts of the whole Agent Foundations organization:

Name Role
Kamil SzybalskiKamil Szybalski Director of Product Management
Fiona NeillFiona Neill Staff Technical Writer
Thomas LoughlinThomas Loughlin Support Engineer
Senior Manager, Product DesignSenior Manager, Product Design Senior Manager, Product Design

💬 Where to find us

Slack

Scope Channel Purpose
Organization #s_agent_foundations Cross-team Agent Foundations discussion for all disciplines

Every group has individual channels for the functional teams and a group-wide engineering channel.

Product categories

The Agent Foundations teams own product categories that fall under the AI-powered stage of the DevOps lifecycle.

📹 GitLab Unfiltered Playlist

The Agent Foundations stage collates some video recordings related to the group and its team members in a playlist in the GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel.


Agent Developer Group
The Agent Developer group is focused on the GitLab Duo Developer foundational flow — improving the flow itself, its evaluation, and flow registry improvements.
Agent Execution Group
The Agent Execution group is focused on developing GitLab Duo Workflow, an AI system to automate tasks and help increase productivity in your development workflow.
AI Catalog Group
The AI Catalog Group is focused on developing AI Catalog, a catalog of Agents, tools, and flows that can be created, curated, and shared across organizations, groups, and projects.
Troubleshooting
Information about monitoring and logging tools of Flows.
Last modified July 31, 2026: Add Agent Foundations section to AI (0855b5a8)