Linear MCP. Manage issues, cycles & tasks with your agent.
Linear MCP connects your agent directly to your issue tracking workspace. List all tickets, get detailed metadata on any bug or feature request, and update status across projects using natural conversation. It lets you coordinate agile development cycles without ever leaving your chat window.
Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access
List active projects, cycles, labels, and teams to understand your organizational structure.
Retrieve full metadata for a specific ticket, including its current status and history.
Create new issues or update the status of existing ones programmatically.
Add specific comments to an issue, ensuring team members see the latest updates right where they belong.
Verify that your API connection is working correctly and check overall service status.
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What AI agents can do with Linear: 11 Tools for Issue Tracking
These tools let you execute every possible action in Linear—from creating new bugs to listing team members—all through your AI agent.
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Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.
Start using Linear MCPCreate Linear Comment
Adds a comment directly to any specific issue ticket for team context.
Create Linear Issue
Creates an entirely new issue within the Linear workspace.
Get Linear Issue
Retrieves comprehensive, detailed information about one specific ticket.
List Linear Cycles
Lists all active development cycles currently running in your organization.
List Linear Issues
Provides a broad list of issues across the workspace, showing their general status.
List Linear Labels
Retrieves a directory of all issue labels used by your teams.
List Linear Projects
Lists and shows the status of all active projects within Linear.
List Linear Teams
Lists all distinct teams or departments that belong to your workspace.
List Linear Users
Retrieves a directory listing of all individual members in the Linear workspace.
Check Linear Status
Runs a check to confirm that your API connection is active and working correctly.
Update Linear Issue
Changes the status or details of an existing ticket using natural language...
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The constant cycle of manual status checks.
Every week, someone has to check Linear. They jump into the app, open the project board, filter by assignee, and then they have to click on three different tickets just to see if a feature is ready for testing. Then they copy that status ('In Review') into a Google Doc, which usually gets outdated before anyone can use it.
With this MCP, you tell your agent what you need—for example, 'List all issues in the billing cycle that are blocked.' Your agent runs the necessary checks and gives you the answer right away. No clicking through boards; you get a direct summary.
The Linear MCP lets you write tickets and update status with natural language.
Before, creating an issue meant navigating to 'New Issue,' filling out the title, description, assigning it a label, and selecting the project. Updating required opening the ticket, finding the status dropdown, changing it, and then maybe adding a comment for context.
Now, you simply tell your agent, 'Create a new issue about X for the Backend team.' It handles the entire process—creation, assignment, and initial metadata—in one step. The friction is gone.
What Linear MCP does for your AI
Need to know the state of a project? This MCP gives your AI agent full control over your Linear workspace. Instead of jumping through multiple tabs to gather info on bugs or features, you talk to your agent. You can list all active tickets and pull detailed metadata instantly. Want to update status for a whole team? Your agent handles it.
It's like having a dedicated project coordinator that lives inside your chat app. When you connect this MCP via Vinkius, your AI client becomes an agile architect for your entire organization. You manage everything from creating brand new issues to adding contextual comments and verifying the health of your API connection, all in plain conversation.
019dd119-3e40-719a-90c9-c39f5130bea8 How to set up Linear MCP
The bottom line is you talk to your agent once; it does the manual work inside Linear and gives you the answer back.
First, subscribe to this MCP in Vinkius. Then, grab your Personal API Key from the Linear settings page.
Connect that key to your preferred AI client (like Cursor or Claude).
Ask your agent a question like, 'List all active issues for the Frontend team,' and it executes the command.
Who uses Linear MCP
This is for anyone whose job involves coordinating technical efforts. Product Managers who struggle with status reports, DevOps Leads needing quick access to team assignments, or Engineers who hate context switching.
Needs to monitor project progress and ensure feature delivery stays aligned with the roadmap without manually checking every ticket.
Must verify technical issue logs, check team member assignments, and optimize resource allocation using simple AI queries.
Wants to instantly retrieve issue lists or update ticket statuses using natural language commands without leaving their development environment.
Benefits of connecting Linear MCP
Stop manually updating statuses. You can tell your agent to update an existing issue or create a new one instantly, keeping all development records current without opening the app.
Get instant team directory insight. List workspace teams and members to understand exactly who is assigned what, saving time when coordinating cross-functional efforts.
Understand project scope quickly. By listing active projects or cycles, you get a clear overview of which goals are currently being worked on across different departments.
Maintain perfect context. Instead of emailing updates, use the MCP to add specific comments directly to an issue, keeping all historical notes tied to the ticket itself.
Coordinate complex tasks. Your agent can pull detailed information for any single issue and then allow you to update it in one go, dramatically reducing clicks.
Linear MCP use cases
Need a status report on three different features?
A Product Manager needs to know the current state of 'Dashboard UI', 'Auth Fix', and 'Billing Flow' before a stakeholder meeting. They ask their agent, and it executes get_linear_issue for all three tickets, compiling the detailed metadata into a single conversational summary.
A team needs a new bug ticket created immediately.
An Engineer finds a critical issue during testing. Instead of navigating to 'Create Issue,' they simply ask their agent to create_linear_issue with the title and description, ensuring it gets assigned to the right project.
The team structure changed, who owns this feature?
A DevOps Lead needs to know which department is responsible for a legacy system. They ask their agent to list_linear_teams and then use list_linear_users to pinpoint the right owner.
Need to update tickets after a sprint planning meeting.
The PM asks the agent to update_linear_issue for all high-priority bugs from the previous cycle, changing their status from 'Backlog' to 'Ready for Dev,' confirming everything in one go.
Linear MCP tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Using a generic API wrapper
Manually writing complex multi-step scripts or calling raw endpoints just to list all active projects and their associated labels.
Use the dedicated MCP tools. Just ask your agent to run list_linear_projects and then follow up with list_linear_labels for a full scope review.
Copying statuses into spreadsheets
The team spends hours at the end of the week manually copying ticket titles, current status, and assignee from Linear into Excel for reporting.
Let your agent retrieve detailed metadata using get_linear_issue. It pulls the precise data points you need directly into the chat, ready to paste or summarize.
Forgetting who is on which team
A manager can't find out if a specific person was moved from the 'Mobile' team to the 'Backend' team last month.
Use list_linear_users and list_linear_teams. Your agent quickly maps the organizational structure for you, confirming resource assignments.
When to use Linear MCP
Use this MCP if your primary bottleneck is coordinating technical status updates across multiple projects or teams. You need a single conversational layer to manage tickets, cycles, and user data in Linear without context switching. Don't use it if you only need basic read-only access; for simple reading, other general API connectors might suffice. However, if you need to actively change things—like creating an issue, updating status, or adding a comment—this specific MCP is necessary because it exposes the write tools (create_linear_issue, update_linear_issue) that make your agent useful.
Frequently asked questions about Linear MCP
Can I use Linear MCP to list all projects? +
Yes, you can. Use the MCP's tools to run list_linear_projects. This gives your agent a directory of every active project in your workspace so you know where everything is.
How do I update an issue status using Linear MCP? +
You use the update_linear_issue tool. You simply ask your agent to change the status for a specific ticket, and it handles updating the record in Linear automatically.
Does Linear MCP help me track team members? +
Absolutely. The list_linear_users tool lets you retrieve a directory of all workspace members. This is critical when figuring out who owns which feature or bug.
What if I need to add context to an issue? Is it Linear MCP? +
Yes, use the create_linear_comment tool. You can have your agent write and post a comment to any specific issue, keeping perfect communication history right where the work happens.
Is Linear MCP just for reading data from my issues? +
No, it's fully bi-directional. Beyond listing or getting details, you can also create_linear_issue and update existing ones, making your agent an active participant in the workflow.