Linear 2026-04-23-linear-agent-mcp-supportstable Released Apr 23, 2026
Impact Score: 5/10

Linear Agent MCP support

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Linear 2026-04-23-linear-agent-mcp-support. Source highlight: can now connect to your tools via MCP, giving it access to data and actions beyond your Linear workspace. Bring external context into your workflows to investigate issues, plan projects, write specs, and draft updates grounded in your full context.

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Linear Agent can now connect to your tools via MCP, giving it access to data and actions beyond your Linear workspace. Bring external context into your workflows to investigate issues, plan projects, write specs, and draft updates grounded in your full context. For example: Pull meeting takeaways from Granola into a project update and create follow-up issues Use enterprise context from Glean to draft a more complete project spec Turn interview notes from Notion into customer requests Use PostHog data to validate a product hypothesis Admins can control access with allowlists and workspace-level MCP permissions. Connect servers in your agent personalization settings or within triage automations . See the docs for supported servers and setup instructions. Improvements to Linear Agent We’re continuously improving Linear Agent and adding new capabilities and features. Select text anywhere in Linear and press ⌘+J to send it directly to the agent as context Agent chat now opens in a maximized overlay, so it feels like a natural extension of the toolbar chat instead of a separate page More control over sharing issues We recently introduced issue-level sharing , which lets teams share individual issues from private teams with guests and members who don’t have team-level access. This update gives team owners more control over how that access is managed. Team owners can now configure who can share issues with non-members in team settings. Sub-issues also no longer inherit the parent issue’s share state and can be shared independently. Issue-level sharing is available on Enterprise plans. Learn more in our docs . Fixes Agents: Fixed a case where maximizing the agent panel could leave the main view shrunken API: Enabled webhooks now show the correct status dot in API settings API: Agent delegation webhooks are now retried after an initial failed delivery Billing: Fixed an issue where a deleted Stripe coupon on a subscription could block plan changes Editor: Issue titles now auto-generate correctly from template boilerplate when opening the composer with a template Email: Invitation and authentication emails are no longer delayed when bulk sending is throttled Intercom: Intercom conversations are no longer reopened when the linked Linear issue is marked as a duplicate Issue Templates: Applying a template in the issue composer no longer clears pre-filled fields like project when the template doesn’t specify them Issue Templates: Fixed an error when editing templates containing issues with legacy invalid descriptions Issues: Printing or exporting an issue to PDF now includes all pages Slack: Bot messages in Slack threads now sync correctly to Linear instead of appearing as empty comments Slack: Issue links posted to Slack now show the correct title for teams with keys that start with a digit Slack: User group mentions in Slack asks now resolve to the group name instead of showing the ID in Linear Slack: Slack unfurls now work for org-less issue URLs such as linear.app/issue/LIN-123 Triage: Issues accepted from a parent team’s triage no longer auto-move to a sub-team based on the assignee’s membership Triage: Fixed a bug where SLAs could be skipped for issues routed across teams by triage rules Triage Rules: Fixed triage rules with a project action not saving Views: Creating a new issue from a sub-team custom view now defaults to the correct team Views: Fixed a crash when opening very large views or dashboards Workflows: Fixed release automation updates failing with a spurious “Team ID is required” error