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Linear MCP connector

The Linear connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent read your Linear issues, projects, milestones, releases and status updates as you, with every request logged and nothing broader than your own Linear access.

Connect on Elaichi How to connect

  • How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Linear to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

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In Elaichi

Connect Linear once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Linear.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Approve it in Linear. Linear's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

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In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Linear MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Linear MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Linear MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Linear to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Connect Linear on Elaichi See pricing

Use cases

What teams do with Linear through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Support

    Check the bug a customer is asking about

    Ask for the Linear issue a customer keeps writing in about and get its current status, the latest comments and any attached screenshots, without leaving the conversation.

  • Product

    See where a project stands before the review

    Pull a Linear project, its milestones and its recent status updates into one short readout so you walk into the weekly review already caught up.

  • Engineering

    Find out who is on triage today

    Ask who holds triage responsibility for a Linear team and what notifications are waiting, then hand off cleanly at the start of the day.

  • Marketing

    Pull release notes before an announcement

    Ask for the latest Linear release and its release notes, then draft the changelog post or customer email from what actually shipped.

  • Customer success

    Attach the customer's screenshot to the issue

    Upload the file a customer sent and attach it to the right Linear issue so the engineer sees exactly what the customer saw.

  • Operations

    Catch up on a week of status updates

    Ask for the status updates and documents across the Linear projects you follow and get a plain summary of what moved, what slipped and what is blocked.

Try asking

  • “What is the status of the checkout bug issue?”
  • “Summarize this week's status updates for the mobile app project”
  • “Who is on triage for the platform team today?”

See all 68 Linear tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Linear

All three can connect Linear to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Linear, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Linear tools Allow or restrict single Linear tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Linear call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Linear tools for your AI agents

68 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Linear, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi. Linear builds and runs these tools.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Linear gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Linear account.

The agent

Ask about Linear issues in plain language.

Get answers from live Linear issues, projects, milestones and releases, not a stale export.

  • issues
  • projects
  • milestones
  • releases

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

What is the status of the checkout bug issue?

Summarize this week's status updates for the mobile app project

Who is on triage for the platform team today?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

Use Linear from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

One governed endpoint for your organization, no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

 • Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

 • Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

 • Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

68 Linear tools, ready without writing code.

Issues, projects, milestones, releases, documents and attachments, covered without custom code.

  • Create attachment (deprecated)
  • Create attachment from upload
  • Create issue label (deprecated)
  • Delete attachment
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
Create attachment (deprecated) Create Deprecated fallback for tiny files only. Accepts base64 file content, verifies SHA-256 checksum, and uploads it through the MCP worker. Prefer `prepare_attachment_upload` plus direct PUT plus `create_attachment_from_upload`. CRITICAL: Do not print base64Content and then copy…
Create attachment from upload Create Link an already-uploaded Linear assetUrl to an existing issue as an attachment. Use this only after: 1. prepare_attachment_upload returned an assetUrl and uploadRequest. 2. The client successfully PUT raw file bytes to uploadRequest.url. This tool does not upload file…
Create issue label (deprecated) Create Create a new Linear issue label. Deprecated: use `save_issue_label`, which can also update labels.
Delete attachment Delete Delete an attachment by ID
Delete comment Delete Delete a Linear comment. Inline description comments (those with non-null `quotedText`) anchor a mark in the editor, so their root cannot be deleted — delete the replies individually or resolve the thread instead.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Linear toolbox.

Engineering, Product and Support each see only the Linear tools they need.

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Support
  • Customer success
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Engineering toolbox

Linear · issues, diffs and triage

 Linear starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Product toolbox

Linear · projects, milestones and status updates

 — 9 Mar 2, 2026

Support toolbox

Linear · issue status and attachments

 — 24 Feb 27, 2026

Customer success toolbox

Linear · customer-reported issues

 Linear starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Marketing toolbox

Linear · releases and release notes

 — 31 Jan 30, 2026

Operations toolbox

Linear · documents and notifications

 — 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Share Linear access without sharing credentials.

One person connects Linear, teammates work through it and never see a token.

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Support
  • Customer success
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
LI

Linear (Engineering)

Connected by Emily Carter

 Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
LI

Linear (Product)

Connected by Jake Morgan

 Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
LI

Linear (Support)

Connected by Megan Brooks

 Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
LI

Linear (Customer success)

Connected by Tyler Reed

 Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
LI

Linear (Marketing)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

 Personal • Active Not shared
LI

Linear (Platform team)

Connected by Ashley Parker

 Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Know who touched which Linear issue.

Every call is logged with who, when, what happened and the resource.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM
E

Emily Carter

[email protected]

 Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM
J

Jake Morgan

[email protected]

 Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM
M

Megan Brooks

[email protected]

 Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM
T

Tyler Reed

[email protected]

 Linear Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM
R

Ryan Hayes

[email protected]

 Linear Issues Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM
A

Ashley Parker

[email protected]

 Linear Issues List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule turns Linear updates into a digest.

Status updates are fetched, grouped, drafted, approved by a person, then posted back to Linear.

Linear digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch issues

    Linear

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s

  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve

  6. Post the digest

    Linear

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Linear health numbers, computed without a model.

Issues created over 14 days, broken down by team, refreshed on a schedule.

Linear health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the issues collection

Live

Issues

1,284 ↓ 12%

Projects

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Issues created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Engineering 34%

Product 27%

Support 21%

Customer success 18%

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Linear to Claude?

Connect Linear inside Elaichi first, which opens Linear's own sign-in screen where you approve access as yourself, with no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. From that point Claude can read your Linear issues, projects and releases as you.

Does Linear work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Linear is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, the Elaichi Agent and any other MCP client. You connect Linear once and every client you use picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Linear data?

With Linear connected, an agent can look up an issue and its status, read a project with its milestones and status updates, pull a release and its release notes, open a document or template, check who is on triage and list your notifications. It can also attach an uploaded file to an issue and remove old comments or attachments where you allow it. Short, concrete asks work best, such as the issue number or project name rather than a long paragraph.

Does connecting Linear give the AI access to every team and project?

No. Every request runs as the person who signed in to Linear, so the agent sees only the Linear teams, projects and issues that person can already open. Elaichi can narrow that further with roles and restrictions, but it never widens what Linear itself allows.

Can my team share one Linear connection?

Yes. One person connects Linear in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles a credential. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every Linear call in the audit log carries their own name.

Can I stop an agent from deleting comments or attachments in Linear?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Linear issues and projects while blocking deletion of comments, attachments or status updates. A restricted action is never advertised to the AI client at all, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to a Linear connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their Linear access through every connected client at once. A Linear connection that was shared with a team keeps working for everyone else on that team. If you disconnect Linear in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client in one step.

Does the Linear MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Linear is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Linear?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Linear. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Linear call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Linear?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Linear: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

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