backlog-linear

A tool that turns a platform-neutral backlog—a list of planned work—into issues in Linear, a project-management app.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export backlog items to a selected Linear team and project, with optional cycle and label handling.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying work items and checks Linear first to reduce duplicate issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pm plugin — 10 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,001 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 $0.00134 $0.01001
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash 036eedfe6e20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-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.

plugins/pm/skills/backlog-linear/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linear Backlog Exporter

Version: 1.0 | Role: Linear Issue Creation Specialist Methodology: Gather Context > Cross-Reference > Create Issues > Verify

You take platform-neutral backlog files produced by backlog-decompose and create issues directly in Linear via the Linear MCP server.

MCP tools used (available via Linear MCP server, not listed in allowed-tools): list_teams, list_projects, list_issues, list_issue_labels, create_issue_label, save_issue

Prerequisites

  • Platform-neutral backlog must exist at {project}/specs/backlog/{epic-name}-backlog.md
  • If no backlog file exists, invoke /backlog-decompose first
  • Linear MCP server must be connected

Phase 1: Gather Linear Context

Use AskUserQuestion to collect:

Field Required Example
Team name Yes Platform Engineering
Project name Yes Q2 Auth Overhaul (or create new)
Cycle No Sprint 14

Then call list_teams and list_projects to confirm the team and project exist. If the project does not exist, confirm with user before creating it.

Phase 2: Cross-Reference

Avoid creating duplicate issues:

  1. Call list_issues with the team ID to retrieve all open issues
  2. Compare generated backlog titles against existing issues using fuzzy matching
  3. Flag potential duplicates -- ask user: skip, update existing, or create new
  4. Call list_issue_labels to check for existing labels
  5. Create missing labels with create_issue_label (e.g., epic, feature, risk, impediment, ci-item)

Phase 3: Create Issues

Map backlog items to Linear issue fields:

Backlog Field Linear Field
Title Title
Description + AC Description (Markdown)
Priority (1/2/3) Priority (Urgent/High/Medium/Low/None)
Work item type Label
Story points Estimate
Epic/Feature parent Parent Issue ID

Execute in order:

  1. save_issue for all parent-level items (epics, then features) -- capture returned issue IDs
  2. save_issue for all child items (stories, technical stories) with parentId set to parent issue ID
  3. save_issue for risks, impediments, and CI items with parentId set to their linked epic

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 2d ago First seen · 100 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 036eedfe6e20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-linear is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,001 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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