Follow-up from "Add proposal for user access with GitLab credentials"

The following discussion from !671 (merged) should be addressed:

• @nagyv-gitlab started a discussion: (+6 comments)

  This should be a GitLab Premium feature. For GitLab Free users, the GitLab users should use the agentk Service Account.

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I want to discuss the GitLab Core side a bit more, but it doesn't need to block the merging of the premium side. I want to merge that now so we can start working on the frontend access.

My concern with access_as:impersonate as the GitLab Core option is twofold:

• A custom User and Groups allows manual emulation of a large part of access_as:user. The main thing missing would be the user's role (developer, maintainer etc).
• Having to set up access_as adds friction