Linear MCP: Stop Context-Switching Between Claude and Linear

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Linear MCP: Stop Context-Switching Between Claude and Linear

Engineering teams switch between their AI agent and Linear dozens of times a day. You ask Claude for help debugging, then manually hop over to Linear to create a ticket. You're in a sprint planning call, need to check capacity, and alt-tab away from your IDE. Linear MCP eliminates that friction by giving your AI agent direct access to your entire issue tracker.

This is the official Linear integration—built and maintained by Linear themselves. It connects Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP-compatible agents to your Linear workspace with full OAuth support, so each team member's permissions stay intact. Your AI can now create issues, manage sprints, update statuses, query workload, and pull metrics without you leaving your flow.

What It Does

Linear MCP unlocks five core capabilities:

Issue Management: Create fully-formed bugs and features with title, description, assignee, labels, and priority in a single prompt. Search and filter across projects, assignees, statuses, or labels to find exactly what you need.

Workflow Automation: Move issues through your team's workflow states, add comments with context (like PR links), and link related tickets—all without touching the Linear UI.

Sprint & Cycle Visibility: Query what's in the current sprint, check team capacity, and get cycle completion metrics to answer "what did we ship last week?" in seconds.

Project Strategy: Access your roadmap, explore project hierarchy, and check milestone status for planning conversations with your AI agent.

Per-User Security: OAuth authentication means each team member's access is scoped to what Linear already allows them to see.

The result: your AI agent becomes a genuine productivity multiplier for engineering teams, not just a chatbot you paste code into.

How to Install

Install via npm:

npx -y @linear/mcp

Then add Linear MCP to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linear-mcp": {
      "command": "npx -y @linear/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Authenticate with your Linear workspace when prompted, and you're live.

Real-World Use Cases

• Instant Bug Reports: Say "Create a high-priority bug: login timeout on mobile, affects production" and Claude generates the ticket with full details and assigns it to you—no manual typing.

• Sprint Triage in Chat: Ask Claude "Show me all blocked issues in the current sprint" and get a filtered list with context, ready to discuss in standup.

• Link PR to Issue: After code review, tell Claude "Move ENG-431 to In Review and add a comment with [PR link]"—one command, no context switch.

Full install guides for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and more at CuratedMCP.