GitLab Orbit is GA: Higher agent accuracy, lower token cost

An agent’s true cost isn’t only the tokens it burns. It’s the review that calls your code “safe to merge” after seeing the diff, but without any context on the pipeline. We call that artificial confidence, not artificial intelligence. Agents guess because code is all they can see; they can’t see the merge request that last changed it, the pipeline that ran it, the vulnerability it carries, or the people who wrote and reviewed it. Guessing is expensive. If you’ve tried running agents in a large monorepo, one with tens of thousands of files, you know how it goes: the agent iterates, pinging the

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