Linear (Community)
Free foreverjerhadf · Productivity
18k installs
The Linear (Community) MCP server brings your Linear issue tracker directly into any AI agent workflow, letting Claude, GPT, Gemini, or other LLMs create, update, and search issues without leaving the chat or app they're already working in. Built on the Model Context Protocol, this community-maintained connector exposes Linear's core issue-tracking primitives — issues, projects, labels, and workspace search — as callable tools that an agent can invoke autonomously, turning natural-language requests like "open a bug for the checkout flow" into structured Linear tickets assigned to the right team and cycle.
When you host this Linear MCP server integration through BusinessMCP, it stops being a one-off connector and becomes part of a single, unified MCP endpoint at /api/mcp, authenticated with a Bearer mcph_* key. Instead of standing up and maintaining your own Linear MCP server, wiring OAuth scopes, and rotating tokens, you connect Linear once inside the growth-suite dashboard and every downstream agent — support bots, engineering copilots, sales-to-eng handoff automations — talks to the same hosted endpoint. Because the platform is model-agnostic, you can swap between Claude, GPT-4-class models, or Gemini without touching your Linear issue-tracking automation logic, and because it's cookieless and GDPR-friendly, it fits teams that need to keep AI tooling compliant while still automating project management.
Practically, this MCP server for Linear is aimed at product, engineering, and support teams that want AI agents to triage, file, and query issues without giving every tool full admin access to the workspace. An agent monitoring a customer Slack channel can search across the workspace for existing issues before creating a duplicate; a QA agent can bulk-create issues from a test run summary; a release-notes agent can pull recently completed issues by project or cycle. Paired with BusinessMCP's business-intelligence dashboard, engineering throughput data surfacing from Linear can sit next to revenue and ad-spend metrics pulled from other connected tools, giving founders and ops leads a single pane of glass instead of stitching together Linear exports, spreadsheets, and BI tooling by hand.
Because it's cataloged under Productivity alongside other issue and project-tracking connectors, teams often pair this Linear integration with adjacent tools in the same hosted MCP server — for example routing customer-reported bugs from a support tool into Linear, or cross-referencing Jira and Linear issues during a migration. The community label means this connector is actively maintained by the ecosystem rather than shipped directly by Linear, so BusinessMCP handles the versioning, uptime, and credential storage so your agents get a stable, always-on interface to issue creation, project visibility, and workspace search regardless of which underlying implementation is running behind the scenes.
For teams evaluating a Linear MCP server versus building custom API glue code, the hosted approach removes the operational burden: no separate server process to deploy, no manual token refresh, and no divergent integration code per AI agent. You get one authenticated endpoint, one place to audit which agents touched which issues, and a BI layer that turns raw issue activity into a metric you can actually act on.
Just say it in a thread
No configs, no docs. Once connected, these are the kinds of messages your agents act on.
"Create a new linear issue with title, description, team, and optional labels or assignee — and give me the highlights."
"Update the status, priority, assignee, or details of an existing linear issue for me, then post a summary in the thread."
"Search across issues, projects, and comments in the connected linear workspace and flag anything that needs my approval."
What teams use it for
- Let a support-facing AI agent file and triage Linear bugs automatically from customer conversations
- Search the Linear workspace before creating issues to avoid duplicate tickets
- Generate release notes or sprint summaries by querying completed issues per project or cycle
- Assign and update issue status from natural-language requests inside a growth-suite dashboard
- Correlate engineering throughput from Linear with revenue and ad-spend data in one BI view
Agent-callable tools
create_issue
Create a new Linear issue with title, description, team, and optional labels or assignee.
update_issue
Update the status, priority, assignee, or details of an existing Linear issue.
search_workspace
Search across issues, projects, and comments in the connected Linear workspace.
list_issues
List issues filtered by team, project, cycle, or status.
list_projects
Retrieve projects in the workspace along with their current progress and state.
add_comment
Add a comment to a specific Linear issue.
assign_issue
Assign or reassign an issue to a team member.
Your data stays yours
Credentials live in your vault. We route requests — we never store, log, or train on your data.
Works with every AI
Connect once — portable across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and every local agent you run.
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Frequently asked questions
Is this the official Linear MCP server?
No, this is a community-maintained Linear connector; BusinessMCP hosts and manages it for you so you get a stable, always-on endpoint without running the server yourself.
How do AI agents authenticate to this Linear MCP server?
Once you connect Linear inside BusinessMCP, any agent calls it through your unified /api/mcp endpoint using a Bearer mcph_* key, so no separate Linear OAuth handling is needed per agent.
Can I use this alongside other project management tools in the same MCP server?
Yes, this Linear integration can run in the same hosted MCP server as tools like Jira, Asana, ClickUp, or Trello, letting one agent work across multiple trackers.
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