init-linear

A one-time setup workflow for Linear, a project-management service used to track issues and projects. It creates labels, an Ideas project, and an Archive project when they are missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize tasks by type and executor, and to set up places for evaluating ideas and storing completed or rejected work.
Why use it?
It prepares a consistent workspace for the described workflow without recreating items that already exist.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 849 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 $0.00025 $0.00849
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured 2d ago against content hash 72e9d03e93fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-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.

skills/init-linear/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initialize Linear Workspace

One-time setup to prepare Linear workspace for the SWF workflow.

Workflow

  1. Check current state:

    • List existing teams, projects, labels
    • Report what's already set up vs what's missing
    • Skip anything that already exists
  2. Create Label groups and labels:

    type(任务类型)
    ├── dev          #4EA7FC  编码开发
    ├── experiment   #F2C94C  实验运行
    ├── writing      #6FCF97  文档/论文写作
    ├── figures      #BB87FC  图表制作
    └── admin        #BDBDBD  提交/沟通/杂务
    
    executor(执行者)
    ├── agent:claude  #D2915D  Claude Code 处理
    ├── agent:codex   #26B5CE  Codex 处理
    └── manual        #EB5757  需要手动操作
    
    • First create parent groups with create_issue_label using isGroup: true:
      • type (isGroup: true)
      • executor (isGroup: true)
    • Then create sub-labels with parent parameter pointing to the group name:
      • e.g., create_issue_label(name: "dev", color: "#4EA7FC", description: "编码开发", parent: "type")
    • Skip any that already exist
  3. Create Ideas project:

    • Name: Ideas
    • Icon: :bulb:
    • Description: "立项评估漏斗。每个想法作为一个 issue,评估任务作为 sub-issue。评估通过 → 归档 issue,建独立 Project 和 GitHub repo。评估否决 → 归档 issue,留记录。"
    • Skip if already exists
  4. Create Archive project:

    • Name: Archive
    • Icon: :file_cabinet:
    • Description: "归档中心。所有项目的 Done/Canceled issues 导出为 Documents 存放于此。用于释放 250 issue 额度。"
    • Skip if already exists
  5. Clean up default issues (if present):

    • Check for Linear onboarding issues (titles like "Get familiar with Linear", "Set up your teams", etc.)
    • Ask user: "发现 X 个 Linear 默认引导 issue,要标记为 Canceled 吗?"
    • If yes, mark them Canceled
  6. Remind team settings:

    请在 Linear 网页上手动配置以下设置:
    
    Settings → Team Settings → Workflows & automations:
    - Auto-close parent issue: 开启(子 issue 全完成时自动关闭父 issue)
    - Auto-archive closed items after: 1 month(最短选项)
    
    完成后 SWF 工作流即可使用。
    
  7. Report:

    ## Linear 初始化完成
    
    ✓ Labels: type (5) + executor (3)
    ✓ Ideas 项目
    ✓ Archive 项目
    ○ 默认 issue 已清理
    
    手动设置提醒:
    - [ ] Auto-close parent issue
    - [ ] Auto-archive = 1 month
    
    下一步:
    - /swf:idea <name>    记录第一个研究想法
    - /swf:import         导入已有项目
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 72e9d03e93fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init-linear is a skill published in the GitHub repository cliffren/swf (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 849 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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