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title: Receive Semgrep MR comments through a GitLab runner
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description: Set additional environment variables to receive Semgrep MR comments through a GitLab runner.
description: Set additional environment variables to receive Semgrep MR comments with other pipeline events.
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- Semgrep in CI
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# Receive Semgrep MR comments through a GitLab runner
# Receive Semgrep MR comments with other pipeline events

Generally, Semgrep recommends using the [<i class="fas fa-external-link fa-xs"></i> GitLab merge request pipeline](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/merge_request_pipelines.html) to receive MR comments. This method is used in the default [Semgrep GitLab config file](/semgrep-ci/sample-ci-configs/#sample-github-actions-configuration-file).

However, you can also receive comments through your own [<i class="fas fa-external-link fa-xs"></i> GitLab runner](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/) by setting the following variables in your CI job:
However, if you run pipelines on [other events](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/webhook_events.html), and want those pipelines to run [diff-aware scans](https://semgrep.dev/docs/semgrep-code/glossary#diff-aware-scan), you can configure them to do so and thereby receive comments by setting the following variables in your CI job:

<pre class="language-bash"><code>
export GITLAB_CI='true'
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