linear-task-management

A Linear project-management helper for creating and organizing issues, assigning labels and priorities, changing workflow status, and connecting issues to pull requests. Linear is a tool teams use to track software work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break features into tasks, create tickets, set priorities and labels, update issue status, manage project work, and link issues with pull requests.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes when updating team tasks, especially where Linear requires internal identifiers instead of visible status or label names.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 659 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 $0.00054 $0.00659
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3406e3667277, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linear-task-management 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (config.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/orchestrator/plugins/linear/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Management with Linear

Team ID, workflow state UUIDs, and label UUIDs: tracker-config.md. Docs: https://linear.app/docs

The stateId UUID trap

update_issue requires a workflow state UUID. Passing a display name like "In Progress" always fails with stateId must be a UUID. The names returned by list_issues / get_issue are display-only and are not valid stateId values.

// works — UUID read from tracker-config.md
{ "issueId": "TAS-42", "stateId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890" }
// fails — name, not UUID
{ "issueId": "TAS-42", "status": "In Progress" }

If tracker-config.md has no state UUIDs: skip status updates and log a warning. To populate them, ask the user for Linear Settings → Teams → Workflow (the UUID is in the browser URL per state) or the GraphQL workflowStates { nodes { id name } } query. Labels and teams are UUIDs too (teamId, labelIds).

Other gotchas

  • Linear MCP has no comment API. To record a blocker, edit the issue description.
  • Treat a create as successful only if it returns an issue ID (TAS-42) — verify before delegating.
  • GitHub integration auto-transitions on PR events (push → In Progress, review → In Review, merge → Done), configured in Settings → Team → Pull request automation. Link by putting TAS-123 in the branch or PR title.
  • On resume, re-read every issue status before acting; a stale local view causes double work.

Conventions

Verb-first titles mapping to intent: Add schema: priceRange to place, Migrate DB: add price_range, Update query: include priceRange, Implement UI: PriceRangeFilter.

Priority: P1 blocks other tasks / critical path, P2 core feature on critical path, P3 parallelizable support work, P4 docs and polish.

Flow Backlog → Todo → In Progress → In Review → Done → Cancelled. Every description carries Objective, Files (partition), Acceptance Criteria, Dependencies (#TAS-XX). Group related issues under a Linear project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 41 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 3406e3667277

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linear-task-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository monkilabs/opencastle (61 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 659 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

find-code-tasks

Lists all code tasks in the repository with their status, dates, and metadata. Useful for getting an overview of pending work or finding specific tasks.

mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator · 34 tokens

linear

Read Linear issues, transition state, and post comments. The entry point for ticket-driven agent workflows.

initializ/forge · 22 tokens

multi-module-maven

Use when working in a multi-module Maven project. Covers parent POM conventions, shared dependency management, inter-module rules, and build ordering.

rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills · 33 tokens

product-architect

Complete product development system with 64 agents and 35 frameworks. Use when the user wants to build a product, write a PRD, plan an MVP or roadmap, design an app, research a market or check whether a feature already exists or is novel, do competitive analysis, run a security audit, build a financial model, plan…

ankitjha67/product-architect · 211 tokens

codex-delegation

Use when a coding task would benefit from delegating work to Codex in the background — a deep independent second opinion, security or architecture analysis, or a parallel implementation running while the session continues. Lets Claude drive the codex companion itself (task, review, status --wait, result) without the…

zebbern/agent-collab · 74 tokens

cursor-delegation

Use when a coding task would benefit from delegating work to Cursor in the background — fast parallel implementation, scaffolding, or an everyday review running while the session continues. Lets Claude drive the cursor companion itself (task, review, status --wait, result) without the user typing /cursor: commands.

zebbern/agent-collab · 66 tokens