linear

A set of tools for Linear, a task-management system used to track issues, projects, teams, and backlogs. It supports common issue and project work through the available connector or command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, view, list, and comment on issues, and to manage Linear projects and teams.
Why use it?
It avoids switching between an agent and Linear to manage development tasks. It also provides rules for choosing tools and handling issue references.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bendrucker/claude/linear
Any agent
npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill linear
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,492 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00041 $0.01492
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00149

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7636db15611b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linear 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.

plugins/linear/skills/linear/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linear

Tools and workflows for managing issues, projects, and teams in Linear.

Environment

  • linear CLI: !linear --version 2>/dev/null || echo "not installed"

The connector and MCP paths need no CLI. The CLI-only operations (relations, bulk work) require linear; when it reads "not installed", stay on the connector. The version above tells you which CLI is installed. Confirm its exact subcommands and flags with linear <cmd> --help or the linear-cli:linear-cli skill rather than assuming them.

Arguments

$0 (optional verb) routes to an operation; pass the rest (issue id, title, filters) as its params. With no verb, infer the operation from the request.

Pick a tool path per Tool Selection.

Tool Selection

Three runtime paths reach Linear, in order of preference:

  1. Claude.ai connector (mcp__claude_ai_Linear__save_issue, get_issue) is the primary path. One tool, save_issue, handles both create and update. It also takes relations (blocks, blockedBy, relatedTo, duplicateOf), parentId, project, milestone, cycle, estimate, dueDate, and links as params. That covers most structured single-issue work end to end. See Creating vs Updating.
  2. Local or plugin MCP (create_issue, update_issue, list_issues) exposes separate tools for create and update. Use it for simple single-issue operations when the connector is unavailable.
  3. linear CLI and raw GraphQL is the fallback for what the connector does not cover (complex queries, bulk operations) and for setting relations when the connector is unavailable. Defer to the linear-cli:linear-cli skill for the CLI surface. See GraphQL API.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 120 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 7636db15611b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linear is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,492 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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