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+title: 'Suggestion Citations Now Post Inline on GitLab Merge Requests'
+subtitle: Published August 2026
+description: >-
+  When Promptless opens a merge request on GitLab, suggestion citations now post as diff-positioned discussion threads on the MR itself, not only in the Promptless dashboard.
+date: '2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z'
+author: Frances
+tag: Product Updates
+section: Featured
+hidden: false
+---
+import BlogNewsletterCTA from '@components/site/BlogNewsletterCTA.astro';
+import BlogRequestDemo from '@components/site/BlogRequestDemo.astro';
+
+When Promptless opens or updates a merge request on GitLab, the suggestion's citations now post as diff-positioned discussion threads on the MR itself. Reviewers can see why Promptless made each change without leaving GitLab.
+
+## The problem
+
+Every Promptless suggestion includes citations: references to the source material that informed specific changes. A PR body that describes a new behavior, a knowledge base article that explains an existing pattern, a spec document that defines expected output. These appear in the Promptless dashboard next to the relevant changes in the suggestion viewer.
+
+For GitLab teams, this created a split review workflow. A reviewer opening a Promptless docs MR in GitLab could see the changed lines but not the reasoning behind them. To find the citations, they had to leave GitLab, open the Promptless dashboard, locate the suggestion, and read the citations panel there. Then go back to GitLab to continue the review.
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+The context-switch compounds on teams where multiple people review the same suggestion. Each reviewer independently had to decide whether to check the dashboard or just approve based on the diff alone. Citation context that would help a reviewer make a better decision wasn't reaching them where they worked.
+
+GitHub PRs have had inline citations for a while. GitLab merge requests did not.
+
+## What it does now
+
+When Promptless opens or updates a GitLab MR, citations post as discussion threads on the MR, anchored to the lines in the diff they support. The threads appear in the GitLab discussion panel alongside any review comments from human reviewers. A reviewer who wants to understand why a specific paragraph was changed can see the citation for it in context, without switching to a separate tool.
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+When a citation can't be anchored to the diff, Promptless falls back to an unanchored thread on the MR that names the file and line. This covers cases where the source material informed a change without mapping to a specific line in the changed output.
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+The Promptless dashboard continues to show citations in the suggestion viewer. The inline MR comments are additive.
+
+<BlogNewsletterCTA />
+
+## Who benefits most
+
+Teams using GitLab who review Promptless suggestions inside GitLab rather than inside the Promptless dashboard. The benefit increases with team size: when multiple reviewers look at the same suggestion, each now has citation context in GitLab rather than relying on one person to check the dashboard and relay the reasoning.
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+This is especially relevant for documentation teams that use GitLab as their primary review surface. When a Promptless suggestion touches a section that isn't immediately obvious from the diff alone, the citations do the explanation work inside the tool where the review is happening.
+
+## How to use it
+
+Nothing to configure. Promptless posts citations on GitLab MRs automatically as long as `auto_create_pr` is enabled in your [publishing policies](/docs/reference/configuration-reference#policies). If you're already using Promptless with GitLab doc collections, citations will appear on new MRs going forward.
+
+See [GitLab projects](/docs/connect/doc-locations/gitlab-projects#automatic-merge-request-creation) for more on how Promptless manages GitLab merge requests.
+
+<BlogRequestDemo />