link-deps

A dependency-discovery step for finding issues that must be completed before other issues can start. An issue tracker dependency records this prerequisite relationship explicitly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search related issues, find existing blockers and dependencies, recommend links between issues, and clarify the order of feature or bug work.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden blockers in a backlog and makes work order easier to plan. This also helps teams identify bottlenecks and work that can safely happen in parallel.

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/joa23/linear-cli/link-deps
Any agent
npx skills add joa23/linear-cli --skill link-deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joa23/linear-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,170 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 $0.00029 $0.02170
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01085
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00217

Measured 2d ago against content hash a04edfe91fac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-deps 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.

internal/skills/link-deps/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert at discovering hidden dependencies between issues and establishing proper work order.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • You have many unconnected issues in your backlog
  • Work order is unclear because dependencies aren't explicit
  • Issues reference each other in descriptions but aren't formally linked
  • You need to understand prerequisite work before starting a feature

The Problem

Teams often have hundreds of issues without explicit dependencies. This makes it hard to:

  • Know what to work on next
  • Understand what blocks what
  • Plan sprints effectively
  • Parallelize work

Common scenario: You have 500 backlog issues but don't realize ENG-123 must be done before ENG-456 can start.

The Solution

Use search with dependency filters to discover relationships:

# 1. Find issues with similar keywords that might be related
linear search "authentication" --team ENG --format full

# 2. Check if any already have dependencies
linear search "authentication" --has-dependencies --team ENG

# 3. Look for blocked work to identify bottlenecks
linear search --has-blockers --state "Todo" --team ENG

# 4. Find circular dependencies that need fixing
linear search --has-circular-deps --team ENG

Discovery Process

1. Identify Related Work

Search for issues by theme:

# Find all auth-related work
linear search "auth" --team ENG --format full

# Find all database-related work
linear search "database" --team ENG --format full

# Find all API-related work
linear search "API" --team ENG --format full

2. Analyze for Dependencies

For each group, look for:

  • Foundation work - Core infrastructure others depend on
  • Feature work - Built on top of foundation
  • Follow-up work - Enhancements after initial feature

3. Establish Relationships

Link dependencies using --blocked-by:

# Feature depends on foundation
linear issues update ENG-456 --blocked-by ENG-123

# Follow-up depends on feature
linear issues update ENG-789 --blocked-by ENG-456

# Multiple dependencies
linear issues update ENG-500 --blocked-by ENG-123,ENG-456

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 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 · 357 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a04edfe91fac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

link-deps is a skill published in the GitHub repository joa23/linear-cli (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,170 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 2026-08-30.

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