work-items-to-linear

work-items-to-linear is a skill for Claude Code from testdouble/han. It costs 197 tokens per session (3,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A publishing tool that turns a work-items.md file into Linear issues, one issue per work slice, in a selected Linear team. Linear is a system for managing software projects and tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish implementation slices as Linear issues and connect their blocking relationships.
Why use it?
It removes the manual task of recreating planned work in Linear and preserves dependencies between work items.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the han-linear plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to publish implementation slices as Linear issues and connect their blocking relationships.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add testdouble/han
Claude Code
/plugin install han-linear

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install han-linear, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,532 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00197 $0.03532
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01766
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00706
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00353

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1a4dd6f3c236, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-items-to-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 3d 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.

han-linear/skills/work-items-to-linear/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Context

  • personal config directory: !bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/han-config-dir.sh" 2>/dev/null || echo "$HOME/.claude"
  • project .han/config.md: !cat .han/config.md 2>/dev/null || echo ""

As your first action, use the Read tool on .han/config.md inside the personal config directory path above. A read that returns no file is no personal configuration: continue silently. When that file or the project .han/config.md probe supplies content, apply it per config-rule.md, which governs precedence between the two files, relative-path resolution, and what to do with a file that reads but cannot be used.

Work Items to Linear Issues

Take an already-broken-down work-items.md file (produced by /plan-work-items) and publish each slice as a Linear issue in a single target team.

The breakdown work — drafting slices, assigning symbolic IDs, specifying dependencies, inventorying references — has already been done upstream. This skill validates the format, confirms the target against the live team, creates one issue per slice through the Linear MCP server, links the within-file dependencies as native "blocked by" relations, and reports.

Rules

  • Every slice posts into one Linear team. This skill does not split work across teams or repos. A work-items.md that names multiple code repos still produces issues in the single team you name; the repo prose is informational only.
  • Dependencies are within-file only. Every SYM named in a Depends on line must resolve to another slice in the same file. A Depends on that names an unknown SYM, names the slice itself, or forms a cycle is a format error to surface for repair, never published.
  • Symbolic-ID prefixes: accept whatever the input uses. Any uppercase prefix shape is valid (W-N, V2-N, EV-N, ...); the prefix has no effect on team placement.
  • Resolve against the live team before writing. Read the team's real workflow states, labels, Projects, and members, and resolve every named option against them before creating any issue. Nothing is assigned, categorized, grouped, or moved unless asked.
  • No issue types. Linear has no issue-type concept. The skill never asks for or sets one. Categorization is via the team's real labels, chosen by the user.
  • Every slice issue MUST carry the reference artifacts an implementer needs — API/event contracts, design references, schema docs, runbooks, ADRs, coding standards. Full include/exclude list in references/reference-artifact-inventory.md.
  • NEVER include process artifacts in issue descriptions. Excluded: iteration histories, decision logs, review findings, team findings, facilitation summaries, gap analyses, and anything under an artifacts/ subfolder of the plan that is not a contract or design reference.
  • No image upload or embedding. Design references are carried as links, not uploaded into Linear. See references/linear-issue-template.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 3d ago First seen · 224 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A 1a4dd6f3c236

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work-items-to-linear is a skill published in the GitHub repository testdouble/han (256 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 3,532 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.

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