linear-import

A tool for creating many Linear issues from CSV or JSON files. CSV is a table-like file format, while JSON is a structured data format commonly used by software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bulk-create issues from external data, import fields such as titles, priorities, assignees, labels, and due dates, or restore issues from an exported JSON file.
Why use it?
It avoids entering a large set of issues manually and provides a dry run to preview an import before creating anything.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 271 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 $0.00021 $0.00271
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash d2fe456bbcb5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linear-import 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/linear-import/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Import

# Import from CSV
linear-cli im csv issues.csv -t ENG

# Preview without creating (dry run)
linear-cli im csv issues.csv -t ENG --dry-run

# Import from JSON
linear-cli im json issues.json -t ENG

# JSON round-trip (export then re-import)
linear-cli exp json -t ENG -f backup.json
linear-cli im json backup.json -t ENG

CSV Format

CSV files need a header row. Supported columns: title, description, priority, status, assignee, labels, estimate, dueDate.

Status, assignee, and labels are resolved by name automatically.

JSON Format

JSON files should be an array of issue objects matching the export format.

Flags

Flag Purpose
-t TEAM Target team (required)
--dry-run Preview without creating
--output json JSON output

Exit Codes

0=Success, 1=Error, 2=Not found, 3=Auth error

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 · 45 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A d2fe456bbcb5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linear-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository nesszer/linear-cli (133 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 271 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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