Introducing coding sessions.
Linear Agent can now triage issues, investigate the cause, write the fix, open a PR, and bring the code back for review.
All shared with your team in Linear.
New: Initiative properties
Initiatives now support priority, labels, and additional statuses.
Use priority to stack rank high level work, or group proposed initiatives by product area when planning.
Update: Access to Claude Fable 5 is fully restored. Linear Agent coding sessions previously configured for Fable 5 will automatically switch back from Opus 4.8.
Following the US government's export control directive and Anthropic’s recent announcement, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 in Linear Agent’s coding sessions.
To ensure minimal disruption, all workspaces who have enabled Claude Fable 5 are being automatically failed
We’re investigating an issue affecting some users in India who may be unable to load Linear on web and desktop. We’ll share updates here and on our status page:
📋 Your issues live in @linear. Now you can manage them right from Slackbot. Connect @linear's MCP server to Slackbot and manage your entire project workflow in natural language — without leaving Slack. Scan customer channels for feedback and file issues automatically. Build
A bug enters triage. Linear instantly labels it, runs a full code investigation, and opens a PR for your team to review.
Automated triage that actually closes the loop. 🔁
Walk through a large PR in the order the code actually flows. Spot a bug, ask Linear Agent to fix it, and watch the diff update live.
Code review without the tab-switching or file-sifting.
External agents that already work with @linear today.
You can use them to write code, automate triage & bug fixing, update and move work forward. In a shared, multiplayer instance.
Linear Agent (Claude Code / Codex harness)
(Your company custom agent)
Codex
Cursor
GitHub
New post: why and how @linear is moving to @stylexjs.
Codemods and agents are doing the heavy lifting. Humans still have to perform detective work on cursed hover states.
skovhus.dev/blog/moving-li…
New: Agent assisted project updates
1. From an update, click Write with Agent
2. Linear drafts an update based on recent activity and Slack conversations
3. Verify, iterate, and post
Following the US government's export control directive and Anthropic’s recent announcement, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 in Linear Agent’s coding sessions.
To ensure minimal disruption, all workspaces who have enabled Claude Fable 5 are being automatically failed
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of
