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Linear

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Velocity0.0

Issue tracking and project management for software teams

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Linear stopped being where work is described and became where it gets started.

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◆Current state
Linear's recent output is dominated by one thread: an in-product agent. Linear Agent shipped, gained MCP so it can reach tools outside the workspace, and picked up intake from Intercom, Zendesk and Gong plus a deeplink handoff into external coding tools. Around it sits steady tracker work — team owners and permissions, multi-level sub-teams, time-in-status, advanced AND/OR filters, Releases, web forms for Asks, and a broad UI refresh.
◆Where it's heading
The centre of gravity is moving from recording work to attempting it. Each release widens the agent's reach in a different direction: MCP for tools, support integrations for intake, deeplinks for handoff to coding agents. The conventional tracker features increasingly read as the substrate the agent operates on rather than the product itself.
◆Prediction
Expect the next moves to deepen agent context and control rather than add tracker surface — more MCP-reachable actions, and permissions or review steps governing what the agent may do on its own.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Coding sessions in Linear

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    The capstone of Linear's agent arc: after teaching the agent to read code (Code Intelligence) and review it (Diffs), the agent can now write it. This closes the plan-write-review-ship loop entirely inside Linear.

  2. 2mo ago

    Team documents

    A dedicated team page for notes, docs, and shared references that don't belong to a single issue or project. Useful context plumbing that also gives the agent more durable team knowledge to draw on.

  3. 2mo ago

    Linear Diffs

    Native code-diff review inside Linear, synced back to GitHub. A real step toward owning the review stage of the loop, though it builds toward the coding-session capstone rather than redefining direction on its own.

  4. 2mo ago

    Project Slack channels

    Auto-created Slack channels per project, with members added and updates posted automatically. Extends the agent's reach into Slack conversations, consistent with the cross-surface context push.

  5. 2mo ago

    Code Intelligence

    ⚡ SPARK

    The hinge of the whole quarter: giving the agent controlled access to repositories turned Linear's context from issues-only into code-aware. Everything that follows, including Diffs and coding sessions, depends on this capability.

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  6. 3mo ago

    Releases

    Release tracking that ties issues to CI/CD deployment environment, version, and status. Gives both teammates and the agent full deployment context, rounding out the ship end of the loop.

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