Every week, another coding agent demo shows a prompt turning into a pull request in under five minutes. These demos often highlight a narrow use case not yet in production, and they skip everything that happens after the commit. The pull request doesn’t include a link to the issue it was supposed to fix. The CI/CD pipeline fails because the agent didn't know about a recently added linter rule. A security scan flags a dependency the agent pulled in without checking the project's approved list. These are context failures, and they determine whether agentic coding accelerates delivery or creates rework. But when development teams use coding agents with GitLab, the agents draw on the issues, pipelines, and security policies already in the platform, catching problems and remediating them within the developer flow.…