GitLab Product Manager Prompts

Work items, roadmap planning, milestone tracking, and release coordination.

Project Overview

"Show me all projects in the my-org group"

"What's the current state of my-org/api?"

Group projects

{
  "action": "list",
  "group_id": "my-org",
  "per_page": 50
}

Project details

{
  "action": "get",
  "project_id": "my-org/api"
}

Work Items & Epics

"Show me all open epics in my-org"

"List issues in the 'Authentication' epic"

"Create a new epic for the Q2 roadmap"

Group epics

{
  "action": "list",
  "namespace": "my-org",
  "state": ["OPEN"],
  "types": ["EPIC"],
  "first": 20,
  "simple": true
}

Create epic

{
  "action": "create",
  "namespace": "my-org",
  "workItemType": "EPIC",
  "title": "Q2 2025: Platform Modernization",
  "description": "## Objective\nModernize the platform infrastructure\n\n## Key Results\n- Migrate to microservices\n- Achieve 99.9% uptime\n- Reduce deploy time to <5min"
}

Milestone Roadmap

"Show me all milestones in my-org with their progress"

"What's the burndown for milestone 'v2.0'?"

"Create a milestone for the Q2 release"

Active milestones

{
  "action": "list",
  "namespace": "my-org",
  "state": "active",
  "per_page": 20
}

Milestone progress

{
  "action": "get",
  "namespace": "my-org/api",
  "milestone_id": "42"
}

Create milestone

{
  "action": "create",
  "namespace": "my-org",
  "title": "Q2 2025 Release",
  "description": "Platform modernization milestone",
  "start_date": "2025-04-01",
  "due_date": "2025-06-30"
}

Issue Tracking

"How many open issues are there by priority?"

"Show me issues blocking the release"

"What's the breakdown of bug vs feature issues?"

Open issues

{
  "action": "list",
  "namespace": "my-org/api",
  "state": ["OPEN"],
  "types": ["ISSUE"],
  "first": 50,
  "simple": true
}

Incidents

{
  "action": "list",
  "namespace": "my-org/api",
  "state": ["OPEN"],
  "types": ["INCIDENT"],
  "first": 20,
  "simple": true
}

Release Tracking

"Show me the latest releases across my projects"

"What's included in the upcoming v2.0 release?"

"Generate release notes from merged MRs"

Latest releases

{
  "action": "list",
  "project_id": "my-org/api",
  "per_page": 5
}

Release details

{
  "action": "get",
  "project_id": "my-org/api",
  "tag_name": "v1.5.0"
}

Labels for Organization

"Create labels for our workflow: status::planning, status::in-progress, status::review"

"List all labels in the group"

Create workflow labels

{
  "action": "create",
  "namespace": "my-org",
  "name": "status::planning",
  "color": "#428BCA",
  "description": "In planning phase"
}

Group labels

{
  "action": "list",
  "namespace": "my-org",
  "per_page": 50
}

Reporting Workflows

Sprint Report

1. "Show burndown data for the current milestone"

2. "How many issues were completed vs added this sprint?"

3. "List MRs merged in this milestone"

Release Readiness

1. "Are there open blockers for milestone 'v2.0'?"

2. "What's the pipeline status on the release branch?"

3. "Show unresolved discussions on open MRs targeting release"

Team Velocity

1. "How many issues were closed each week for the last month?"

2. "What's the average time-to-merge for MRs?"

3. "Show me completed vs planned work per sprint"

Related

• Sprint Planning — Milestone management
• Release Notes — Release creation
• Issue Triage — Issue organization