Attestations API

  • Tier: Ultimate
  • Offering: GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated
  • Status: Experiment

The availability of this feature is controlled by a feature flag. For more information, see the history. This feature is available for testing, but not ready for production use.

Use this API to interact with provenance attestations.

Provenance attestations

Some endpoints return Sigstore bundles as part of the response. You can verify these using glab or cosign. For more information on provenance, see SLSA provenance specification

List all attestations

Lists all attestations for a specified project and SHA-256 hash.

GET /:id/attestations/:subject_digest

Supported attributes:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project
subject_digeststringyesThe hex encoded SHA-256 hash of the artifact

Example request:

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/namespace%2fproject/attestations/5db1fee4b5703808c48078a76768b155b421b210c0761cd6a5d223f4d99f1eaa"

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "iid": 1,
    "created_at": "2025-10-07T20:59:27.085Z",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-07T20:59:27.085Z",
    "expire_at": "2027-10-07T20:59:26.967Z",
    "project_id": 1,
    "build_id": 1,
    "status": "success",
    "predicate_kind": "provenance",
    "predicate_type": "https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1",
    "subject_digest": "76c34666f719ef14bd2b124a7db51e9c05e4db2e12a84800296d559064eebe2c",
    "download_url": "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/attestations/1/download"
  }
]

Download an attestation

Downloads a specific provenance Sigstore bundle by project and attestation IID. The bundle itself is returned in the response body. For more information on this file format, see the relevant Sigstore documentation.

GET /:id/attestations/:attestation_iid/download

Supported attributes:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project
attestation_iidintegeryesThe IID of the attestation, as returned by the list attestations API endpoint.

Example request:

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/72356192/attestations/1/download

Example response:

{
  "mediaType": "application/vnd.dev.sigstore.bundle.v0.3+json",
  "verificationMaterial": {
    "certificate": {
      "rawBytes": "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"
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