Linear

Connect Linear to PlayerZero for AI-assisted issue tracking and triage.

Linear is a project management and issue tracking tool designed for software teams.

What You Can Do

Once connected, PlayerZero AI agents can:

• Search issues — Find issues using multi-filter search across team, state, assignee, labels, and text queries
• Read issues and comments — Access full issue details, descriptions, project associations, subscribers, and comment history for context during debugging
• Create issues — Create new issues with team, title, description, state, priority, labels, assignees, estimates, and project assignment
• Update issues — Modify existing issues including state, priority, labels, assignees, description, and subscriber lists
• Add comments — Post investigation results, root cause analysis, or reproduction steps directly to issues
• Update comments — Edit existing comment content
• Reply to comments — Create threaded replies on existing comments
• Delete comments — Remove comments created by the integration
• Search and browse labels — Discover available labels with parent/child hierarchy support and team-scoped filtering
• Manage labels — Create new labels for organizing issues
• Create projects — Set up new Linear projects with team association
• Create sub-issues — Create nested issues under a parent issue for breaking down work
• Create and assign milestones — Create project milestones and assign issues to them by name
• Delete and archive issues — Remove or archive issues that are no longer needed
• Search teams and projects — Discover teams, list projects, and search across your Linear workspace for context
• Access workspace context — Understand team structure, workflow states, and member details to provide relevant assistance

Use Cases

• Automated triage - AI agents analyze incoming issues and suggest priority, labels, or assignees based on code analysis
• Debug-to-ticket workflow - Convert debug findings into well-documented Linear issues with one click
• Context-aware support - When investigating issues, agents pull in related Linear tickets for full context

Scopes & Permissions

PlayerZero requests only the permissions needed for AI agents to assist with debugging and issue management. We follow the principle of least privilege—each permission directly enables a specific capability.

Scope	Why It’s Needed
read	Context gathering — Allows AI agents to read issue details, comments, and project structure when investigating bugs or answering questions about your work
write	Issue management — Enables agents to update issue status, add labels, or modify descriptions when you ask them to triage or update tickets
issues:create	Ticket creation — Lets agents create new Linear issues directly from debug sessions, converting findings into actionable work items
comments:create	Investigation notes — Allows agents to post root cause analysis, reproduction steps, or code references as comments on existing issues
admin	Workspace awareness — Provides access to team structure and workflow configuration so agents can suggest appropriate assignees and labels

Setup

Setup starts in PlayerZero—no pre-configuration in Linear is required.

1. In PlayerZero, navigate to Settings → Context → Ticketing
2. Find Linear and click Connect
3. You’ll be redirected to Linear to log in and authorize PlayerZero
4. After authorization, select which PlayerZero projects should have access to this integration

Get Started

👉 AI Player overview

👉 Setup guide