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Change for the betterYou don’t have to change what you’re building to change how you build it. Introducing a purpose-built system for teams ready to move forward.FileEditViewSpecialWork sheet 1ABCDE1TaskActDoneLeft2Draft launch brief161063Lock scope with eng12844Assign owners9905Ship release notes7346Review prototype1165Note PadChange for the betterYou don’t have to change what you’re building to change how you build it1Chart 105101520251234567LinearLinearApplicationsLinearSep 19, 2026Entropy is the universe’s oldest habit. A desk tidied on Monday is chaos again by Friday, and no bookshelf stays alphabetized once people start reading the books. Order, wherever you find it, means somebody is maintaining it.The systems we work inside have the same habit. A workflow begins its life clean, and every month after that someone bends it a little. A rogue workaround here, a custom field there. Each change made sense to whoever made it, but years later most of those people have moved on, and the reasons went with them.But the system remembers everything, and that memory has weight. Every team feels it as drag, the small daily rituals, the remembering which status means what, until tracking t…

ReviewsOverview⁠Linear Diffs let you review code changes directly in Linear—so you can read diffs, follow conversations, and complete reviews without leaving your workflow. When enabled, Linear shows pull request details, changed files, checks, and comments, and keeps them in sync with GitHub.Our Diffs experience will continue to evolve as we gather feedback.A new Reviews section appears in the sidebar where you can see pull requests that need your attention, track pull requests you authored, and return to reviews you’ve participated in. Opening a PR in Linear shows its details, activity, CI checks, and associated comments, and updates sync bidirectionally between GitHub and Linear automatically.Navigate to Linear Code quickly with the shortcut G + R, or open a specific review with O + R.Setup⁠Organization setup⁠To display pull request diffs and file changes inside Linear, you’ll need to grant Linear access to your repository code through the GitHub integration.If your workspace hasn’t connected GitHub yet, a Linear owner or admin can configure the GitHub integration to enable code access for the repositories you selected.If your workspace has already connected GitHub, a GitHub org…

NotificationsReceive alerts on important updates in the Linear desktop app, mobile app, Slack, or email.Overview⁠You’ll always see notifications in your Linear inbox. For real-time alerts, you can use the Linear desktop app, mobile app, Slack, or email digests.Configure⁠Go to Settings > Account > Notifications to manage your notifications.You can customize the types of updates you’d like to receive from Linear, such as changelogs, DPA updates and other communications.Notifications are categorized by channel: Desktop, Mobile, Email, and Slack. A green dot next to a channel means that notification method is enabled, while a gray dot means it is disabled.To enable a notification, select the notification method you’d like to configure and click the toggle to turn on the notification. You can then enable or disable each notification type.Notifications are grouped. For example, the status-changes category includes issue completions and cancelations, urgent-priority changes, and changes to blocking relationships. You cannot select only status changes.Notification timing⁠Desktop, mobile and Slack notifications are sent in real-time. Email digests send with time delays based on urgency, and…

Download LinearLinear is available on browsers, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Overview⁠Linear is available as a desktop application, from the browser, as native mobile apps or on a PWA on mobile and tablet.We recommend using our desktop clients and mobile apps for the best experience.Desktop Clients ⁠Linear is available for macOS Intel, macOS Apple Silicon, and Windows. Download the desktop app at linear.app/download.The benefits of using the desktop app are:Notifications are integrated with your operating system, so you can stay up to date on Linear activity from your desktop.Linear is always on and the dock and taskbar quickly alerts you of unread notifications.Keyboard shortcuts have less risk of conflicting with browser-based presets or custom shortcuts.Tab support within the app.Browsers⁠The Linear web app can be access by logging in to linear.app. Linear will launch directly in your browser window.Nearly all functionality in the desktop app including offline mode is available on the web in most browsers. We support the most recent three versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.Open in desktop app: This browser preference opens Linear links in the desktop app if installed. U…

Careers / MagicDesign Engineer (Web & Brand)Full-time (Europe, North America)ApplyAt Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.We're looking for a Design Engineer with strong visual taste to help drive our creative initiatives across web and brand. When it comes to design and code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick up any problem and solve it. For us, it’s both how it works and how it looks. At its core, Linear is a developer tool where speed, interactions, and small details matter. We expect a broad set of design skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes.In this role, you will help communicate Linear'…

Careers / MagicDesign Engineer (Web & Brand)Full-time (Europe, North America)ApplyAt Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.We're looking for a Design Engineer with strong visual taste to help drive our creative initiatives across web and brand. When it comes to design and code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick up any problem and solve it. For us, it’s both how it works and how it looks. At its core, Linear is a developer tool where speed, interactions, and small details matter. We expect a broad set of design skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes.In this role, you will help communicate Linear'…

ChangelogSeptember 14, 2026 ShareLoops for product managementElapsed00:00Remaining time unknown−--:--0.25×0.5×0.75×1×1.25×1.5×1.75×2×Loops are recurring agent workflows for teams. They now respond to more workspace activity, including changes to initiatives, projects, and cycles. They can also edit Linear documents and post updates to Slack.Teams change project plans all the time. It’s not the change itself that’s hard, but the follow-through: updating docs, creating issues, and keeping everyone informed. That’s where information falls out of sync and handoffs get missed. Loops can now handle that coordination for you.For example, when a project’s target date changes, a loop can automatically update the launch plan and post a Slack message explaining what changed, why, and who needs to act.Trigger from across your workspace⁠New triggers include:Project and initiative changes to status, ownership, target dates, milestones, membership, and labels, plus new updates and commentsCycles being created, started, or completedIssue changes to status, priority, assignee, cycle, project, or labelsEdit documents⁠In addition to creating issues and updating projects and initiatives, Loops can now…

Assign and delegate issuesOverview⁠Issues in Linear are assigned to a single person at a time, giving teams clear ownership and responsibility. Assignment helps teammates triage, track, and prioritize work.Users can delegate issues to agents, allowing the agent to work on an issue while the assigned teammate maintains ownership.Assigning issues⁠To assign an issue, open the issue and use the assignee field in the properties sidebar to choose a teammate or agent. You can also assign directly from cards in board views and issue list views by clicking the assignee avatar, or press A when viewing or hovering over an issue to open the assignment menu. Elapsed00:00Remaining time unknown−--:--0.25×0.5×0.75×1×1.25×1.5×1.75×2×To assign yourself quickly, press I while viewing an issue or when hovering in list view. You can also open the command menu (⌘K) and search for “Assign to...” to make updates via keyboard. For bulk assignment, use multi-select in list or board views by typing X when hovering over the issue, and right-click to update the assignee from the bulk action bar.To remove an assignee, choose “No assignee” from the assignment menu.Assignment permissions⁠Issues in public teams ca…

Create issuesCreating issues is the most common action taken in Linear.Overview⁠Issues are the core unit of work and can represent anything a team needs to track, such as bugs, feature work, follow-up tasks, or internal requests.Issues must belong to a single team and are given a unique issue ID number that is assigned in consecutive order of when it was created. They are required to have a title and a status.Creating issues⁠Use the keyboard shortcut C to open up an issue creation modalClick the Create new issue icon in the upper left of the appTo create an issue from a template, use Option/Alt C.Enter https://linear.new into your browser URL bar to create a new issue. It will redirect you to the new issue creation page as long as you are logged into your Linear account.Highlight text and click the Create issue from selection icon in the formatting barChanges made to an issue’s properties in the first 3 minutes are considered part of the issue creation process, and won’t be added to the activity log as changes to the issue. Create an issue via email⁠To allow issues to be created without requiring an account in Linear, you can set up email intake by creating a custom email address f…

Code & reviewsThis page covers the settings that control how Linear works with your code: enabling GitHub code reviews, pull request preferences, review notifications, code theme and font, signed commits, coding tools, and the git automations that update issues as you start work.Review GitHub pull requests in Linear and set your preferences for how Linear works with your git workflow. Open Settings → Account → Code & reviews to configure these preferences.Setup⁠Enable code reviews⁠Code reviews require a workspace GitHub integration with repository code access, a connected personal GitHub account, and Reviews enabled in Settings → Account → Code & reviews. Workspace integration and code-access changes require workspace permissions, but each user manages their own GitHub connection individually. See the Reviews setup guide for detailed setup instructions.Pull request preferences⁠Auto-convert draft pull requests⁠Automatically mark your draft pull requests as ready when a review is requested or the pull request is approved. It applies only to your own draft pull requests.Merge strategy⁠Choose how you merge pull requests from Linear:Squash and merge (default)Rebase and mergeCreate merge…

Careers / Customer ExperienceProduct Support Specialist, EuropeFull-time (Europe)ApplyAt Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.Over the past years, Linear has experienced incredible organic growth and has become an instrumental tool for many of the world’s best product teams. We believe customer support should always feel like an extension of that experience. As a Product Support Specialist at Linear, you’ll contribute to the future of our product by surfacing customer feedback and insights, contributing to our technical documentation, and engaging a technical customer community via social channels.Location & work modeLinear is a remote-first company, with optiona…

How Commure prioritizes thousands of customer requestsCustomer Requests lets you attach customer feedback directly to issues and projects in Linear, so you can see who’s asking for what and weigh requests by count or revenue. Commure has logged over 80,000 requests across 1000s of its healthcare customers, making them one of the heaviest users of the feature globally. Commurecommure.com ↗FoundedMountain View, 2017SwitchedOctober 2024Company size2,200At any meaningful scale, you start to get a lot of feedback from customers. Some of it is things they’d like to see in your product, some of it is points of friction, and all of it is worth something.The trouble is that collecting it and pushing it through some kind of filtering and sorting process is hard to do without it feeling really manual, so at most companies it just piles up. And when feedback piles up, the loudest voice wins, which is usually the biggest customer or the most recent call rather than the thing your product actually needs.Even when they’re asking for the same thing, not every customer is equal. A bug affecting a hundred smaller accounts might matter less than a rough edge for a single enterprise customer, or it mi…

ReleasesConnect your CI/CD tool to Linear to know which issues ship in each release and to each environment.Available to workspaces on the Business and Enterprise plans.Overview⁠An issue’s Done status does not always mean delivered to your customers. Was the PR on that issue merged to staging or production? Is a Done issue on an Android team available to customers now, or in two weeks? What other issues are included in that release?Linear can now answer these questions by integrating directly with your CI/CD system. After integrating, your issues are automatically grouped into releases—whether your team deploys continuously or on a scheduled release cycle. Releases are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Business plans support releases in up to 15 pipelines, and Enterprise plans have no pipeline limit.Release pipelines⁠Different teams in your workspace likely use different build processes. An iOS team may have internal, nightly, and bi-weekly scheduled releases, while your webapp may be continuously deployed as changes land. Model these different processes in Linear by creating a release pipeline for each product/environment combination you support. What pipelines does Line…

EditorFormatting tools in Linear.Overview⁠We support most Markdown elements in our text editor. Type in Markdown or paste it directly and it will be converted into rich text automatically.Read more about Markdown and access full capabilities here.You can also apply styling with a toolbar, which will pop up after you highlight a word or phrase, or by typing / to open slash commands.Formatting⁠These styles can be applied using keyboard shortcuts or by highlighting text to bring up a styling toolbar. You can also hit / on your keyboard to bring up the formatting options:Text styling⁠**text** or Cmd/Ctrl B for bold text_text_ or Cmd/Ctrl I or Cmd/Ctrl > for italicized text~~text~~ or Cmd/Ctrl Shift S to strikethrough textCmd/Ctrl U for underlined textCmd/Ctrl E for inline code# then Space Heading 1## then Space Heading 2### then Space Heading 3#### then Space Heading 4Lists⁠*, -, or + then space or Cmd/Ctrl Shift 8 for a bulleted list1. or Cmd/Ctrl Shift 9 for a numbered list[] or Cmd/Ctrl Shift 7 for a checklistCmd/Ctrl + Enter to check or uncheck a checklist item. Hold Shift to also check or uncheck nested checklist items.Other formatting options⁠Cmd/Ctrl K to turn text into a link (…

Careers / GTMCustomer Success Manager, GrowthFull-time (North America)ApplyAt Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.We’re looking for a Customer Success Manager to help manage relationships with Linear’s top customers. As a part of the early team, you’ll play a pivotal role in laying the foundation and setting up best practices. You will champion our customers’ needs and ensure they realize the full value of Linear across their organization. Your role will involve onboarding new customers, delivering ongoing support + enablement, and fostering strong relationships to drive customer satisfaction and retention.Location & work modeLinear is a remote-first company, wi…

InboxThe Inbox is your notification center in Linear and where you’ll find important updates on issues in your workspace.Overview⁠You’ll receive an Inbox notification for key events on your subscribed issues. You are automatically subscribed to issues when you create them, are assigned them, or are mentioned in an issue description or comment.Inbox shows in-app notifications for work that needs attention. Other notification channels can be managed in notification settings.The Priority tab separates notifications that need your attention from other updates. Linear selects Priority notifications by default. To customize what appears there, right-click on Priority, click the display options menu or open Inbox settings > Priority filter. View notifications⁠Find your Inbox in the sidebar. The fastest way to get there is with the keyboard shortcut G then I, which takes you to the Inbox from any page.Scroll through the notifications in your Inbox using J / K or ↑ / ↓ while on the list or individual notification view.Click into the notification to view the individual issue in a special Inbox view, from which you can take Inbox actions as well as make changes to the issue.Inbox actions⁠From…

ChangelogSeptember 3, 2026 SharePriority inboxAn active workspace can create a significant amount of notifications each day, and until now your inbox treated them all the same. The new Priority tab separates what needs your attention from what can wait, so something like a review blocking a release never gets buried.Linear selects what appears in Priority by default, with the option to customize it by choosing notification sources or creating a filter. You can also continue using the inbox just as you do today.To get started, open the inbox display options or read the docs.Draft projects with Linear Agent⁠The new project composer lets you develop ideas with Linear Agent before creating a live project. Inside the composer, Linear can pull in relevant context from your workspace and connected tools to sharpen the brief and build out a plan.Drafts save automatically as you work, so you can return to the draft without losing progress.Select Create with Agent in the project creation page to get started.Document editing on mobile⁠Document creation and editing are now available in Linear’s iOS and Android apps. Start a doc while the context is fresh, update a plan as it changes, or fix a …

Triage IntelligenceRoute issues by using LLMs to infer issue properties and relationships.Available to workspaces on Business and Enterprise plansOverview⁠Triage Intelligence automates the time consuming assessment and routing steps required when triaging issues. When enabled, issues in your workspace are analyzed by agentic models. Every future issue that enters triage is assessed against the rest of your data. This allows Triage Intelligence to proactively surface suggested issue properties and relationships. Accept, decline, or view more information about why a suggestion was made before making a decision. Issue properties suggested include teams, projects, assignees, and labels, and can be configured to auto-apply when suggested.Configure⁠Enable Triage Intelligence by navigating to Settings > AI and toggling the feature on; this will enable the feature for every team. Taking this action requires admin permissions.In teams where the functionality won’t be useful, turn it off in that team’s individual triage suggestions settings. Or, if the scope of suggestions should be limited to that team and its sub-teams (don’t suggest related issues in other teams, for example), set that be…

My issuesSee your most important issues in one view.Overview⁠My issues is a curated view that shows your most pertinent issues. It’s split into four tabs: Issues assigned to you, created by you, to which you are subscribed, and issues with recent activity.KeyboardMouseCommand menuG then M to go to My IssuesShift S to subscribe to or unsubscribe from selected issuesCmd/Ctrl Shift S to manage subscribers for selected issuesFind My Issues in the top left sidebar under InboxOpen an issue then click the three dots (more menu) at the top of the Activity to subscribe or unsubscribe to itmy issues to go to my issuesBasics⁠Curated priority order⁠Assigned issues are grouped in a focus order such as urgent work, SLA-bound work, blockers, cycle work, other active work, triage, backlog, and completed work. Some sections only appear when they apply.Within each category, issues are ordered by priority, with started issues showing first. You can change the grouping options from the display options on the top-right of the view. Created issues⁠My Issues is also where you’ll find a list of all the issues you’ve created in the workspace, ordered by creation date. This includes issues you create via in…

CyclesCycles are a practice to keep up your team’s momentum, similar to commonly used agile-flavored sprints.Cycles are time-boxed periods where a team works on completing a pre-defined set of work. When enabled, Linear automatically creates upcoming cycles for your team. Unlike sprints, cycles are not tied to releases. Configure⁠Configure cycles under Team Settings > Cycles. Turn on the toggle for Enable cycles. Required settings will show up in the cycle setting flow with defaults. You can always edit cycle configurations in the future.Cycle settings⁠Cycle duration⁠In the Each cycle lasts field, select the number of weeks you want each cycle to last. Cycles can last anywhere from 1-8 weeks. Cycles follow a repeating schedule rather than being configured one by one. Teams choose a shared duration and start day, and can adjust individual future cycles later if needed. The goal of cycles having repeated intervals is to help you avoid the busywork associated with optimizing cycle timing and instead focus on shipping.Cooldowns after each cycle⁠Add a cooldown period after each cycle to give your team a break and time to work through technical debt and planning. Issues cannot be assigne…

The coding agent behind 75% of Ramp’s merged PRsElapsed00:00Remaining time unknown−--:--0.25×0.5×0.75×1×1.25×1.5×1.75×2×Businesses shuttle many billions of dollars along the lines of code in Ramp’s codebase each year. Despite the stakes, in November 2025 Ramp made the call to hand most of its code to an agent it built in-house. That agent, called Inspect, now writes three of every four PRs Ramp merges. Its context includes six years of specs, customer requests, and roadmaps kept in Linear.Rampramp.com ↗FoundedNew York, 2019SwitchedOctober 2019Company size1,600What Inspect is⁠Inspect is a background coding agent that writes code and verifies its own output using the tools a Ramp engineer would reach for. Each session runs in a sandbox configured with Ramp’s own infrastructure, and anyone can start one from the web interface, a Chrome extension, or Slack, where a reply of “@Inspect, fix this” is often all it takes to open a PR.Sessions are also shareable. A designer can take a dashboard rework most of the way there from a Figma file, then hand the session to an engineer to bring it live. Engineers end up reviewing work that is already close to done.Why Ramp built its own coding agent…

Project statusProject statuses clarify where each project is in its lifecycleOverview⁠A project status offers a quick update for stakeholders to gauge the progress of the project. The status will appear next to the project name in the initiative or project timeline pages as well as in an icon on the project bar. Change a project’s status⁠Project statuses are updated manually—we do not do this automatically, even if all issues are completed.Create a custom project status⁠Project statuses can have customized name, description, and color, which is configured in Settings -> Projects -> Statuses. You can have multiple statuses within the available project status categories: Backlog, Planned, In Progress, Completed, and Canceled.PreviousProject graphNextProject labels

NowFrom the teamStyling Linear for the future with StyleXKenneth Skovhus·August 26, 2026It took much longer than anticipated, and at times it was a struggle to keep the momentum going, but more than a 1,000 PRs later, we migrated Linear’s React applications from styled-components to StyleX.styled-components served Linear surprisingly well for a long time. Its API was very flexible, styles stayed colocated with components, and you could reach for regular CSS whenever you needed something more custom. That suited us because our team is unusually sensitive to little things, like the occasional pesky border radius.Eventually though, the endless configurability became a liability.CSS already makes it too easy to style things at a distance, and patterns like styled(Button) made it normal to reopen a component from the outside rather than make its styling contract explicit. We felt the pain of this sharply after Linear’s redesign a few months ago, which has left us chasing a long tail of UI regressions.As our team grows, we wanted to create a stronger foundation for how UI is composed. Defining these boundaries is becoming especially important as agents contribute more and more to our cod…

MCP serverThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) server provides a standardized interface that allows any compatible AI model or agent to access your Linear data in a simple and secure way. Connect to our MCP server natively in Claude, Cursor, and other clients or use the mcp-remote module for backwards compatibility with clients that do not support remote MCP.Linear’s MCP server follows the authenticated remote MCP spec, so the server is centrally hosted and managed. The Linear MCP server has tools available for finding, creating, and updating objects in Linear like issues, projects, and comments — with more functionality on the way, and feedback on its functionality is welcomed.For help getting started after setup, see some of our example prompts. Setup⁠General⁠Our MCP server uses Streamable HTTP as the primary transport, accessible at the following address. The interactive setup flow uses OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration. You can also authenticate directly with a bearer token or Linear API key — see the FAQ for details.Read-write access is provided through https://mcp.linear.app/mcp by default.For read-only access, you have two options:Connect to https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/r…

NowFrom the teamSharing Linear’s growth with the people building itKarri Saarinen·August 26, 2026We completed a $99 million tender offer, giving current and former teammates the opportunity to sell a portion of their vested equity at a $2.5 billion valuation. Existing investors Accel and 01A participated alongside new investors Salesforce Ventures and S32. Our previous tender offer took place last year alongside our Series C at a $1.25 billion valuation.Fundraising can become a habit. A company raises a round, then starts preparing for the next. Sometimes that is exactly what the business needs. This time, it wasn’t what Linear needed. We are cashflow positive, and have more cash in the bank than everything we have raised to date. Raising more primary capital would have meant diluting the team and our shareholders without a clear reason; so we chose a different path.The practical benefit of the tender is liquidity. People who have spent years building Linear could benefit from what they helped create while keeping most of their ownership for the future. The tender also gave us a current valuation that reflects where the company is now. Linear has entered a new stage, and it felt ri…