Still waiting for Claude Code's Linear Integration

Cursor shipped a Linear integration last August. You assign an issue to @Cursor, a cloud agent spins up, writes the code, opens a PR, and updates the issue status.

All without leaving Linear.

Issue tracking and coding finally meet at the same layer.

It just works.

Claude Code doesn't have this yet.

There’s an open feature request on the Claude Code GitHub repo asking for exactly this. It's got lots of upvotes + comments already.

The workaround options aren’t great.

You can wire up a webhook to trigger claude -p with issue context via GitHub Actions. You can build something custom against Linear’s API.

Both work. Neither feels like assigning work to a teammate.

I’ve been building Linear automations on Cloudflare Workers for a while now—webhooks, enrichment, a weekly report agent, etc.

It works because I put the time in.

But Cursor’s integration shows what this looks like when it’s native.

Linear already built the agent API for this. Cursor used it. The missing piece is just the connection by Claude.

I love that Linear designed agents as first-class participants in project management. Tasks have a clean lifecycle: assign, work, PR, update.

The loop closes where you already are.

Claude Code is a capable agent. I use it daily.

But right now, “assign and forget” in Linear to @Claude isn't there yet.