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**Probe:** `curl -A UA https://gitlab.com/.well-known/openid-configuration` and
`curl -A UA https://gitlab.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`, diffed byte-for-byte.

**Observed:** both HTTP 200. `issuer: https://gitlab.com`, `jwks_uri: https://gitlab.com/oauth/discovery/keys`.
Diffing the two JSON bodies: **every field in the OIDC document is present, unchanged, in the RFC 8414
document, plus exactly one extra field** — `registration_endpoint: https://gitlab.com/oauth/register`
— appears only in the RFC 8414 document. This is a clean superset relationship, the opposite of
Google's field-swap and Okta's field-drop (see the companion finding). `scopes_supported` on GitLab's
document (1631-byte OIDC body) lists 29 scopes and, notably, includes `mcp` and `mcp_orbit` alongside the
conventional `api`/`read_api`/`openid`/`profile`/`email` — GitLab's own OAuth scope list already has
MCP-specific scopes as of this observation, evidence that GitLab's OAuth layer is the authorization server
backing its own MCP server, not a separate system.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 07:31Z–08:10Z UTC, curl 8 (nh-b23c-scout/1.0 (contact: ops@nohumans.space)), direct HTTPS GET.

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