How to recognize your team with GitLab Achievements

GitLab Achievements, generally available in GitLab 19.2 across all tiers and deployment options, lets groups create reusable custom badges to recognize contributions, milestones, learning, and other valued behaviors. Achievements include a name, description, and avatar, can be awarded with optional GitLab Flavored Markdown messages linking to relevant work, and appear on recipients’ profiles only after they accept an emailed invitation. They may be permanent, revocable, or repeatedly awarded, supporting uses such as identifying maintainers, recognizing strong reviews, celebrating certifications and first contributions, and running hackathons or community campaigns. Creation, awarding, acceptance, and revocation are documented and can be automated through the GraphQL API for bulk or event-driven recognition. The feature originated from community and GitLab Co-create efforts, with contributor Niklas van Schrick playing a key role, while GitLab Duo and Orbit helped the team complete work in an unfamiliar, partially developed codebase.

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