linear-cli is a command-line client for Linear that lets users list, create, and start issues and manage related workflow without leaving the terminal. It supports interactive and scripted use, works with Git and Jujutsu repositories, and is designed for both developers and AI agents. The catalogue entries extend the CLI with agent instructions, skills, a plugin, settings, and a hook.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to schpet/linear-cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schpet/linear-cli/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/schpet/linear-cliWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/schpet/linear-cli/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/schpet/linear-cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/schpet/linear-cli/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/schpet/linear-cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/schpet/linear-cli/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01042 | $0.01042 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00417 | $0.00417 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00208 | $0.00208 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00104 | $0.00104 |
Grade A, and why
linear-cli AGENTS.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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
basics
- this is a rust cli. the toolchain is pinned in
rust-toolchain.toml.mise.tomlpins thedistrelease tool; runmise trustonce in a fresh checkout (until then mise refuses to load this directory, including its cargo shims) crates/linear-cliis the cli (thelinearbinary plus a library the tests and examples use);crates/linear-schemaholds the cynic types generated fromgraphql/schema.graphql, linear's graphql schemaxtask/holds repository maintenance commands, run withcargo xtask <task>(an alias in.cargo/config.toml). it is not part of the release- format with
cargo fmt --all, then before finishing a change runjust check, which runs:cargo fmt --all --checkcargo clippy --locked --workspace --all-targets -- -D warningscargo test --locked --workspace
- run the cli from source with
just dev <args>(cargo run -- <args>) just sync-schemarefreshesgraphql/schema.graphqlfrom linear's api- after changing commands, flags or help text, run
just skill-docsto regenerateskills/linear-cli/SKILL.mdand its references. editskills/linear-cli/SKILL.template.md, notSKILL.md - release builds generate
THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md(gitignored) withcargo xtask licensesand ship it in every archive. it reproduces the license files of every crate inCargo.lock; a crate whose package ships no license file needs its upstream text added tolicenses/supplemental/and recorded insources.jsonthere, or the command (and CI, which runs it) fails - add an entry under
## [Unreleased]inCHANGELOG.mdfor user-facing changes - ask before adding a new dependency
layout of crates/linear-cli/src
src/cli/: clap definitions of every command, flag and help textsrc/commands/: one module per command group, doing the work for a parsed commandsrc/graphql/operations/: cynic queries and mutations, one module per entity. the field order of a selection is the order of its--jsonoutputsrc/refs/: resolving user input (issue ids, team keys, names, urls) to linear idssrc/config/andsrc/auth/:.linear.toml,.env,LINEAR_*env vars, credentials and keyring storagesrc/platform/: terminal, pager, editor, prompts, browser and other process integrations
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +340 tokens per session 29e4978616e7
- 2mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 702 tokens per session scan A 267728a11759
linear-cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository schpet/linear-cli (1,039 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 1,042 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
linear-cli AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linear-cli AGENTS.mdschpet/linear-cli | Instructions file | 1.0k | 14d ago | ISC | A | 1,042 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
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| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |