Changelog

Introducing Linear Agent⁠

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We're excited to share the next major step in Linear's evolution. For the vision behind Linear Agent, read the letter from our CEO, Karri.

As execution accelerates, the bottleneck in product development shifts toward judgment: deciding exactly what to build and where your team's time, attention, and tokens are best spent.

Your workspace already contains much of the context needed to drive good product decisions, but getting to it means reading through threads, combing the backlog, reviewing customer requests, and piecing together what's relevant.

Linear Agent brings all of that context within reach.

Built directly into Linear, and accessible everywhere, Linear Agent understands your roadmap, issues, and code. It can help you synthesize context, make recommendations, and take action.

For example, when starting a new project, instead of manually researching past feature requests, you can ask Linear to find related issues, group them by relevance, and pull the right ones in. From there, ask it to extract common requirements across customer requests and scope out a starting point for your spec — all in a few minutes.

Linear Agent is powered by frontier language models and fully grounded in the context of your workspace. Use it to supercharge your everyday workflows:

• In Slack, send: "@Linear Make issues based on the discussion here and assign them to me"
• When writing a project update, tell it: "I’m writing an update for this project. What’s changed recently, and what should I include?”
• When planning your next cycle: “Read this backlog and pull out repeated themes that we can prioritize"
• When you come back from time off and need to know what's going on: “Is anything at risk or falling behind that I should be aware of?”

Linear Agent works with you wherever you are. Open a chat from the bottom-right of the desktop app (shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + J) or the mobile app, or mention @Linear in any comment or reply. It's also available in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Skills and Automations⁠

As you use Linear Agent, you’ll find workflows worth repeating. When a conversation gets you to a good result, you can ask Linear to save it as a reusable skill. This is especially useful for recurring workflows, like catching up on projects or drafting issues from meeting notes. Run a skill from the skills menu in any chat or with a slash command. Linear will also automatically use skills when it thinks they are applicable.

You can also trigger agent workflows automatically when issues enter triage. Every new issue adds context to your workspace, and Linear can intelligently help you refine, synthesize, or act on it.

Automations are available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Code Intelligence (coming soon)⁠

We're also announcing Code Intelligence, a capability that extends Linear Agent's understanding to your codebase. Once enabled, it supports code-aware tasks like diagnosing app functionality and designing technical specifications.

Non-technical teammates can ask questions they'd normally have to track down an engineer to answer — how a feature works, who owns a system, what recently changed — and get a reliable response.

Code Intelligence is coming soon to Business and Enterprise plans.

Availability and pricing⁠

Linear Agent is now available in public beta for all teams. Agent and Skills are included on all Linear plans. Automations and Code Intelligence are available on Business and Enterprise.

During the beta period, all features are available at no additional cost as we refine and expand the product.

At general availability, we expect chat functionality — in-app, in comments, Slack, and Microsoft Teams — to remain included in the base seat price. High-volume compute capabilities like Automations and Code Intelligence may move to usage-based pricing beyond a certain threshold.

We'll provide clear advance notice before any pricing changes take effect. Reach out if you have any questions.

UI refresh⁠

Introducing a calmer, more consistent interface.

We've visually refreshed Linear's interface design to make it easier to scan information, navigate between workflows, and stay focused.

A few highlights:

• Headers, navigation, and view controls are now consistent across projects, issues, reviews, and documents, making it simpler to orient yourself and move between workflows
• Icons across the app have been redrawn and resized
• Navigation sidebars are slightly dimmer, allowing the main content area to stand out

Learn more about our design process on our blog.

Additional launchers for AI coding tools⁠

We recently gave you the ability to open issues directly in your AI coding tools with all of the context they need to take a first pass.

We've now expanded the list of supported tools. In addition to popular options like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex desktop, you can also now open issues in:

• Amp
• Codex CLI
• Devin
• Factory
• Lovable
• Netlify Agent Runners
• Warp
• Windsurf

Enable your tools in preferences, and launch them from any issue using the dedicated shortcut or with ⌘ Opt . (Mac) or Ctrl Alt . (Windows/Linux).

Mobile agent sessions⁠

Work with your coding agents on the go. After delegating an issue to an agent, open its session in the Linear mobile app to see realtime reasoning or review past sessions. For agents that support it, you can also send additional messages in the session to help steer the work.

Multiple parents for sub-initiatives⁠

Sometimes a sub-initiative contributes to multiple high-level goals. This is common in goal setting frameworks like OKRs.

Sub-initiatives can now belong to multiple parent initiatives in Linear, allowing you to express how work rolls up in different ways across your org.

Available on Enterprise plans.

Send comment on Enter preference⁠

As part of our design refresh, we've made commenting across Linear more lightweight. You can now select between sending comments with just the Enter key or with ⌘/Ctrl Enter in preferences.

Deeplink to AI coding tools⁠

Starting an issue used to mean manually creating a feature branch. Now it means assembling the right context so your coding agent can take a first pass. We've made this much easier to do in Linear.

You can now launch your preferred coding tool directly from a Linear issue, with a prefilled prompt that includes the issue ID and all relevant context: description, comments, updates, linked references, and images. No copying or reformatting required.

Open in a coding tool by pressing Cmd Option . (Mac) or Ctrl Alt .(Windows/Linux) to launch your most recently used tool, W then O to choose from your enabled tools, or by clicking the button next to the issue identifier.

Supported tools:

• Claude Code
• Codex
• Conductor
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• OpenCode
• Replit
• v0
• Zed

Prompt templates can also be customized to add standing instructions for how your agent should approach issues. For example, you may always want your agent to give you a detailed plan before writing any code.

Configure your personal coding tools, prompt template, and more in preferences.

Linear in Notion's Custom Agents⁠

Create and update Linear issues and projects using Notion's new Custom Agents. Flexibly and seamlessly connect your workflows across both tools.

Advanced filters and share issues in private teams⁠

Refine your searches, views, and dashboards with advanced filters. Combine multiple AND/OR conditions to define exactly what you want to see.

For example, track high-priority bugs for prospective customers in a single view by combining Priority, Label, and Customer status filters.

Subscribe to a view to get notified when issues match your conditions, or use advanced filters to power targeted dashboards.

Get started by choosing advanced filter from the filter menu, or use AI filter to describe what you're looking for in natural language.

Share issues from private teams⁠

You can now share individual issues from private teams with specific users outside of the team. This is especially useful when bringing collaborators on to solve individual problems for highly sensitive teams, like security or HR. You can assign them a specific issue from your team without giving them access to the rest of the team's data.

Shared issues will have a banner prominently displayed to indicate who that issue is visible to.

Private issue sharing is available on Enterprise plans. Learn more in our docs.

Create projects and initiatives on Android and iOS⁠

Capture ideas on the go by creating new projects and initiatives on Linear's mobile apps. Write project summaries and properties to express your intent, then build out full descriptions and milestones later.

Gemini Enterprise connector⁠

Gemini Enterprise users can now create issues from Gemini, and access data from their existing issues and projects. Learn more in our docs.

Linear MCP for product management⁠

We've expanded Linear's MCP server with support for initiatives, project milestones, and updates. These allow product managers to keep plans up to date and communicate progress from other tools like Cursor and Claude.

Newly added MCP tools:

• Create and edit initiatives
• Create and edit initiative updates
• Create and edit project milestones
• Create and edit project updates
• Manage project labels
• Support for loading images

We also improved performance and reduced token usage through better tool documentation, and added broad support for loading Linear resources through URLs.

Deprecation of /sse MCP endpoint⁠

SSE as a transport was deprecated starting with protocol version 2024-11-05. As all modern clients now support the more reliable HTTP streams, Linear MCP is fully removing SSE support. To switch, update your endpoint from https://mcp.linear.app/sse to https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.

Deprecation errors for SSE will be rolled out gradually over the next two months.

Read more in Linear MCP documentation.

Nested sub-issues⁠

Issue lists can now show sub-issues as a nested hierarchy. Turn on this display option from any issue list view.

Retired teams⁠

Teams form and disband as organizations evolve. When a team is no longer active, its issues and projects still hold useful context, but shouldn't clutter your workspace.

We're introducing the ability to retire teams, giving you a clean way to wind a team down while preserving its project and issue history.

Retired teams are read-only and hidden from the sidebar, but their issues, projects, and documents are still accessible. When retiring a team, you can choose to cancel any remaining open issues or move them to another team. Retired teams can be restored at any time.

Admins, workspace owners, and team owners can retire a team from its settings page.

Time in status⁠

Time spent in individual statuses is now tracked and available throughout Linear. Hover over any issue's status indicator to see the cumulative time it's spent in each status. You can use this to spot where things are getting stuck, identify bottlenecks, and optimize your development process.

On lists and boards, you can see how long items have been in their current status. Order by time in status to surface blocked work, or filter by conditions like In Review > 7 days to catch issues that have fallen through the cracks.

In Insights and Dashboards, analyze the time spent in any status and slice by time period or other attributes to see how performance changes and differs across your workspace. Use this to quickly uncover systemic bottlenecks and outliers.

Time in status is available as a display option in views, and as a new measure in Insights.

Jira Epic sync⁠

We’ve upgraded our Jira integration to support bi-directional syncing between Jira Epics and Linear projects. Changes to properties like status, target date, and description automatically reflect in both applications, so you don't have to update them manually.

Configure the Jira integration from your Linear workspace's integration settings.

Customize your navigation in Linear Mobile⁠

Now you can customize Linear Mobile to fit your daily workflow.

Personalize the bottom toolbar to prioritize the features you use the most. Rearrange the main navigation items, or pin specific projects, initiatives, and documents for quick access. For example, you can choose Pulse to stay up to date with work across your teams, or My issues to manage your assigned tasks.

To pin specific projects, initiatives, or documents, open the item and use the ••• menu in the top-right.

Available today in the App Store and Play Store.

Redesigned timing charts in Insights and Dashboards⁠

Timing charts in Insights and Dashboards have been redesigned to make it easier to spot workflow trends and bottlenecks.

Timing charts now use a logarithmic scale by default so outliers don't visually flatten the rest of your data. Percentile metrics also display by slice, allowing you to compare across different dimensions or track changes over time. We’ve also removed issue limits to support analysis across much larger datasets.

Linear Agent for Slack on all plans⁠

We've made Linear Agent for Slack available on every plan, including Basic and Free. Update your Slack integration, then create issues or ask questions by mentioning @Linear in Slack.

Linear Code Reviews (Private Beta)⁠

Linear Code Reviews is now available in private beta. We've brought code reviews directly into Linear, with support for both traditional PR workflows and agents output.

Join the waitlist to request early access.

Team owners⁠

We are introducing a new team owner role to give teams more control over their team settings. Alongside this new role, we’re adding team permissions so you can choose who can manage team settings, labels, templates, and membership — either any team member or only team owners. This empowers teams to define their own policies, while ensuring workspace owners and admins retain control over workspace-wide settings.

You can also control access and require an invite to join a team. Issues and projects of any team will still remain visible to everyone, and workspace owners and admins can always manage the settings for any team.

Configure these permissions on your team's Access and permissions page. Team owners and permissions are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in the docs.

v0 by Vercel MCP connector⁠

Access your Linear data from v0 to generate prototypes, dashboards, and internal tools. After connecting Linear's MCP server, you can pull context from Linear issues, projects, and discussions when building in v0. Learn more.

Linear agent for Intercom, Zendesk, Gong⁠

The Linear agent can now handle the tedious work of turning customer conversations into actionable issues. Available through our Intercom, Zendesk, and Gong integrations, the agent parses conversations and automatically files issues with the relevant details. This ensures your product team gets the right customer context while your customer-facing teams spend less time manually filing issues.

From Intercom and Zendesk, use the Linear agent to turn support tickets into issues with a single button click. The agent analyzes the full conversation and files any relevant bugs or feature requests — even from long, multi-topic threads. Issues are created with concise summaries, key details, and include relevant screenshots. When a conversation contains several distinct requests, the agent can automatically create multiple issues at once.

The new Gong integration brings a fully self-driving issue creation workflow to customer calls. The Linear agent reviews each transcript to capture product feedback and feature requests and automatically routes them to Linear. No prompts or clicks required.

Every issue filed by the Linear agent is routed to the relevant team’s triage queue and attributed to the right customer. With Triage intelligence, duplicate requests are automatically merged into existing issues, keeping your backlog clean without losing important customer context.

The Linear agent is included with the Intercom and Zendesk integrations on Business and Enterprise plans, and with the Gong integration on the Enterprise plan.

Linear agent in Slack workflows⁠

The Linear agent for Slack now works inside Slack workflows. You can already mention @Linear in any Slack thread to turn conversations into issues using natural-language prompts. With this update, the Linear agent can also be invoked by automated steps in Workflow Builder, allowing bots to request @Linear to create issues and take actions.

Warp agent⁠

Users of Warp can now delegate issues to the Warp agent directly from Linear. Assign an issue to Warp and the agent will create a plan and start working on implementing it.

You can follow how the agent is progressing against its plan, steer it further, or review the PR once the agent finishes. You can always open the remote session in Warp to take over directly. Warp cloud agents are available to paid Warp users. Learn more and install the agent.

OpenAI Codex agent⁠

OpenAI Codex users can now delegate issues directly to the Codex agent without leaving Linear.

Codex can answer questions about your codebase, fix bugs, or take a first pass at issues in your Triage queue. Assign issues to the Codex agent, and it will use the full issue context, automatically choose the right repo, and start working on a solution.

Engineers can fully delegate well-defined issues to Codex, so they can stay focused on more complex projects. Follow Codex's reasoning as it works on the issue or just review the summary when the task finishes. When you’re ready, open the Codex task on web to review the code changes and turn them into a PR.

Codex gives every team engineering-level help — without consuming actual engineering time. Support teams can ask Codex to explain how the code works when triaging bug reports. PMs and designers can use Codex to prototype new ideas, or even handle small coding tasks like updating copy or fixing UI issues.

You can assign multiple issues to Codex and it will work on them in parallel. You'll receive inbox notifications when Codex needs your input or when work is ready for review.

To get started, add the Codex agent to your Linear workspace. You'll be asked to connect your ChatGPT account when you delegate an issue to Codex for the first time. You must be on a ChatGPT paid plan and connect your Github account to use Codex. Learn more in our docs.

Workspace owners⁠

Enterprise plans now have a new Workspace owner role, the highest permission level in Linear. Workspace owners have exclusive control over billing, security settings, OAuth app management, audit logs, and workspace exports. This change enables admins to continue to handle everyday management needs while limiting who has access to the most sensitive settings in your Linear workspace. Learn more in the docs.

Initiatives in Google Sheets⁠

Linear's Google Sheets integration can now sync initiatives in addition to projects and issues. Initiatives sync to their own dedicated Google Sheet with properties including owner, teams, description, health, and target dates.

Use this sheet to power external analysis and workflows for high-level planning. To get started, enable the Linear Google Sheets integration from your Linear workspace settings and toggle on Sync initiatives.