A Model Context Protocol server for the Linear API.

This server provides integration with Linear's issue tracking system through MCP, allowing LLMs to interact with Linear issues.

Components

Tools

1. linear_create_issue: Create a new Linear issue

   • Required inputs:
     • title (string): Issue title
     • teamId (string): Team ID to create the issue in
   • Optional inputs:
     • description (string): Issue description (markdown supported)
     • priority (number, 0-4): Priority level (1=urgent, 4=low)
     • status (string): Initial status name

2. linear_update_issue: Update existing issues

   • Required inputs:
     • id (string): Issue ID to update
   • Optional inputs:
     • title (string): New title
     • description (string): New description
     • priority (number, 0-4): New priority
     • status (string): New status name

3. linear_search_issues: Search issues with flexible filtering

   • Optional inputs:
     • query (string): Text to search in title/description
     • teamId (string): Filter by team
     • status (string): Filter by status
     • assigneeId (string): Filter by assignee
     • labels (string[]): Filter by labels
     • priority (number): Filter by priority
     • limit (number, default: 10): Max results

4. linear_get_user_issues: Get issues assigned to a user

   • Optional inputs:
     • userId (string): User ID (omit for authenticated user)
     • includeArchived (boolean): Include archived issues
     • limit (number, default: 50): Max results

5. linear_add_comment: Add comments to issues

   • Required inputs:
     • issueId (string): Issue ID to comment on
     • body (string): Comment text (markdown supported)
   • Optional inputs:
     • createAsUser (string): Custom username
     • displayIconUrl (string): Custom avatar URL

Resources

• linear-issue:///\{issueId\} - View individual issue details
• linear-team:///\{teamId\}/issues - View team issues
• linear-user:///\{userId\}/assigned - View user's assigned issues
• linear-organization: - View organization info
• linear-viewer: - View current user context

Usage examples

Some example prompts you can use with Claude Desktop to interact with Linear:

1. "Show me all my high-priority issues" → execute the search_issues tool and/or linear-user:///\{userId\}/assigned to find issues assigned to you with priority 1

2. "Based on what I've told you about this bug already, make a bug report for the authentication system" → use create_issue to create a new high-priority issue with appropriate details and status tracking

3. "Find all in progress frontend tasks" → use search_issues to locate frontend-related issues with in progress task

4. "Give me a summary of recent updates on the issues for mobile app development" → use search_issues to identify the relevant issue(s), then linear-issue:///\{issueId\} fetch the issue details and show recent activity and comments

5. "What's the current workload for the mobile team?" → combine linear-team:///\{teamId\}/issues and search_issues to analyze issue distribution and priorities across the mobile team