Automated cherry pick of #690

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Summary

Cherry pick of #690 on release-1.12.

Conflict Resolution Changes

• server/mcp_test.go: absent on release-1.12 (MCP tooling not present on this branch); dropped the MCP-only GetProject group-gate test additions and kept production changes in server/gitlab/api.go and server/permalinks.go plus permalinks tests.

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