MCP Linear

Example Use Cases

• 1

  List and search a user's Linear issues, projects, and teams to summarize current work or surface relevant tickets.

• 2

  Create or update Linear issues, change issue status, assign teammates, and add comments as part of automated workflows.

• 3

  Integrate with MCP-compatible clients (Cursor, Claude Desktop, etc.) to enable conversational project-management actions using a user's Linear account.

Description

MCP Linear implements the Model Context Protocol to bridge AI assistants and the Linear project management system. It enables retrieval of issues, projects, teams and other Linear data, and allows creating/updating issues, changing statuses, assigning members, adding comments, and creating projects/teams. It integrates with MCP-capable clients (e.g., Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude VSCode) and is installed via npm or Smithery. A Linear personal API token is required to authenticate with the Linear API.