Code Intelligence: Beta

Overview⁠

Code Intelligence lets Linear analyze your connected GitHub repositories so you can ask questions about how your product works without leaving Linear.

When prompted, Linear performs a deeper analysis of your repositories and returns links to relevant files, commits, or pull requests—grounding answers directly in your code.

Ask Linear:

How does the authentication system work?

Who wrote the payment processing logic?

When was the search feature added?

Because this involves deeper analysis of your codebase, responses may take longer than Linear Agent replies about your workspace data. This deeper analysis is specifically used for code-related questions, where understanding implementation details requires inspecting your repositories rather than relying on general context.

Setup⁠

To set up Code Intelligence:

1. Enable Linear Agent: Workspace admins must first enable Linear Agent in Settings → AI.
2. Connect the GitHub integration: If not already enabled, install the GitHub integration for your workspace.
3. Enable code access: In your GitHub integration settings, enable code access to allow Linear to read your repositories.
4. Enable Code Intelligence: Turn on Code Intelligence in Settings → AI.

Once enabled, you can use it to understand implementation details, find where functionality lives, identify architectural patterns, trace when something was added, and see who contributed to specific parts of the codebase.

Workspace admins or owners can also choose which repositories are available for Code Intelligence. This lets you expose only the repositories you want Linear Agent to analyze, rather than making all connected repositories available.

Repository access⁠

By default, Code Intelligence only searches repositories that are:

• connected through your Github integration, and
• accessible to the member

Repository access is permission-aware by default—if someone can’t access a repository in GitHub, Code Intelligence won’t use it for them.

Extending access to all members⁠

Admins can enable Extend access to all members to let anyone in your workspace use Code Intelligence, even if when they don’t have direct GitHub access.

Consider enabling this option to allow customer-facing teams like support and sales to answer technical questions about your product without needing to pull in an engineer for help.

Claude Code guidance⁠

Code Intelligence is powered by Claude Code for deep repository analysis. You can provide optional Claude Code guidance to shape how this analysis works in your workspace.

This is useful for specifying repository conventions, architectural context, or preferences for how Linear should interpret and explain your codebase when answering code-related questions.

Pricing⁠

Code Intelligence is free to users on Business and Enterprise plans during the beta period. We expect to implement usage-based pricing in the future when Code Intelligence is available publicly, but we need to better understand usage patterns, and continue refining the feature before we add any sort of pricing.

We'll communicate any pricing changes well in advance to avoid surprises.