diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 30b9fa2..64d7c64 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.1.0] - 2025-10-08
+
+[Compare with previous version](https://github.com/sparkfabrik/terraform-gitlab-kubernetes-gitlab-agent/compare/1.0.0...1.1.0)
+
+### Added
+
+- refs platform/board#3920: add GitLab provider user as Maintainers of `local.project_id` project.
+
 ## [1.0.0] - 2025-10-02
 
 [Compare with previous version](https://github.com/sparkfabrik/terraform-gitlab-kubernetes-gitlab-agent/compare/0.13.0...1.0.0)
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
index fc7b82a..122db62 100644
--- a/main.tf
+++ b/main.tf
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ locals {
 }
 
 # Gitlab resources
+data "gitlab_current_user" "this" {}
+
 data "gitlab_metadata" "this" {}
 
 data "gitlab_project" "this" {
@@ -89,6 +91,13 @@ resource "gitlab_project" "project" {
   namespace_id = var.operate_at_root_group_level ? data.gitlab_group.root_namespace.group_id : data.gitlab_group.parent_group[0].group_id
 }
 
+resource "gitlab_project_membership" "project" {
+  count        = var.autoassign_current_user_as_maintainer ? 1 : 0
+  project      = local.project_id
+  user_id      = data.gitlab_current_user.this.id
+  access_level = "maintainer"
+}
+
 resource "gitlab_cluster_agent" "this" {
   project = local.project_id
   name    = var.gitlab_agent_name
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
index 5d57284..f755e21 100644
--- a/variables.tf
+++ b/variables.tf
@@ -155,3 +155,9 @@ variable "create_default_pod_anti_affinity" {
   type        = bool
   default     = true
 }
+
+variable "autoassign_current_user_as_maintainer" {
+  description = "Automatically assign the current GitLab user (from the GitLab provider) as a maintainer of the created project. This is useful to ensure that the user has rights to commit and push the GitLab Agent configuration file."
+  type        = bool
+  default     = true
+}