Linear

Linear is an AI tool by Linear Orbit, Inc. that manages issues, cycles, projects and initiatives for product and engineering teams, from startups to large enterprises. The company says more than 50,000 teams use it, including OpenAI, Coinbase and Ramp.

What does the Linear Agent do?

Linear Agent reads the context of your projects, issues, customer requests, docs and code. Mention it in Slack or Microsoft Teams and it turns a discussion into a scoped issue; it also drafts project updates with progress and risks, scans the backlog to suggest what goes into the next cycle and flags work that is slipping. Useful conversations can be saved as reusable skills.

How does Linear automate triage and code?

• Triage Intelligence suggests assignees, teams, projects, labels and duplicate issues based on how your team works.
• Loops run agents on a schedule or when an issue matches your criteria, keeping each run's history as context.
• Coding sessions let you assign an issue to Linear, which works in a secure cloud sandbox and returns a reviewable diff.
• Guided reviews walk you through complex changes, showing what changed and why.

Does Linear connect with other tools?

It offers an API and webhooks, an MCP server so compatible assistants can read issues and projects, and integrations with GitHub, Slack, Zendesk, Intercom, Notion and PostHog. You can also hand work to external agents.

Linear pros and cons

Pros: a very fast interface, workflows built for software teams and AI features that sit inside daily work. Cons: it is aimed at technical teams, the interface is English-only, and features like Triage Intelligence and Code Intelligence are limited to higher tiers.