linear-cli CLAUDE.md

A project instruction file for using the Linear command-line tool, which lets an agent manage work-tracking issues from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing, creating, viewing, searching, starting, and updating Linear issues; reading comments and getting the issue linked to a code branch.
Why use it?
It keeps issue-management actions consistent and provides concise, machine-readable results for coding agents.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/nesszer/linear-cli/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nesszer/linear-cli
Per session 718 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 718 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00718 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00359 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00144 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00072 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9c322e44972c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linear-cli CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linear Integration

Use linear-cli for all Linear.app operations. Do NOT use Linear MCP tools - CLI is 10-50x more token-efficient.

Quick Commands

Task Command
List issues linear-cli i list
Create issue linear-cli i create "Title" -t TEAM -p 2
View issue linear-cli i get LIN-123
Get multiple linear-cli i get LIN-1 LIN-2 LIN-3
Start work linear-cli i start LIN-123 --checkout
Update status linear-cli i update LIN-123 -s Done
Create PR linear-cli g pr LIN-123
Search linear-cli s issues "query"
Get context linear-cli context
Get comments linear-cli cm list ISSUE_ID --output json
Download upload linear-cli up fetch URL -f file.png

Agent-Friendly Options

Flag Purpose
--output json Machine-readable JSON output
--compact Compact JSON output (no pretty formatting)
--fields a,b,c Limit JSON output to selected fields (supports dot paths)
--sort field Sort JSON array output by field (default: identifier/id)
`--order asc desc`
--quiet Suppress decorative output
--id-only Only output created/updated ID
--api-key KEY Override API key for this invocation
--dry-run Preview without executing (create)
- (stdin) Read description/IDs from pipe

Examples for Agents

# Get current issue from branch
linear-cli context --output json

# Create and get ID for chaining
linear-cli i create "Bug" -t ENG --id-only

# Quiet create, capture ID
ID=$(linear-cli i create "Task" -t ENG -q --id-only)

# Preview without creating
linear-cli i create "Test" -t ENG --dry-run

# Batch fetch multiple issues
linear-cli i get LIN-1 LIN-2 LIN-3 --output json

# Pipe description from file
cat desc.md | linear-cli i create "Title" -t ENG -d -

# JSON input for issue create/update
cat issue.json | linear-cli i create "Title" -t ENG --data -

# Structured error handling
linear-cli i get INVALID --output json  # Returns {"error": true, ...}

# Token-saving JSON output
linear-cli i list --output json --fields identifier,title,state.name --compact

# Default JSON output for agent sessions
LINEAR_CLI_OUTPUT=json linear-cli i list

# Agent harness summary
linear-cli agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 718 tokens per session scan A 9c322e44972c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linear-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nesszer/linear-cli (133 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 718 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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