Linear + Slack
Turn support messages from Slack into Linear issues, and post new bugs, urgent issues and stale-work digests to the right channel.
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Automate Linear
Keep your Linear issues and projects on track without watching the inbox. New and urgent issues reach you as they happen, bugs get routed to the right team, stale work gets moved or flagged, and project updates arrive as one weekly summary. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.
Try asking
Create a ClickRuntime automation: post to #eng in Slack whenever a new Linear issue is created in team ENG, with the title, priority, assignee and link.
Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.
Ideas
What you can automate in Linear
Urgent issues you hear about straight away, bugs sorted before anyone picks them up, stale work cleared out, and weekly reports on what your teams finished. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens
Get a Slack message for every new Linear issue
Each new issue in your team shows up in Slack with its title, priority, assignee and link.
See how it worksOn a scheduleAI
Get a weekly report of finished work
Every Friday you get the issues completed that week, grouped by team, with a short summary.
See how it worksThe moment it happens
Get alerted when an issue becomes Urgent
You hear straight away when an issue is created as Urgent or raised to Urgent.
See how it worksThe moment it happensAI
Route new bugs to the right team
New issues in Triage get a team, label and priority, and you get a note explaining each choice.
See how it worksOn a schedule
See which open issues nobody has touched
Every Monday you get the open issues with no updates in 14 days, grouped by team and priority.
See how it worksDaily
Move issues that have stalled
Issues left in one status too long are moved back automatically, with a comment, and you get the list.
See how it worksEvery 30 minutes
Get warned before an issue breaches its SLA
You hear about issues a few hours before their SLA runs out, once per issue.
See how it worksWeekly
Back up all your Linear issues weekly
Every week you get a CSV of all your issues as a backup.
See how it worksThe moment it happens
Create Linear issues from a form or alert
Bug reports or alerts sent to a link become Linear issues in the team you choose.
See how it worksCollects as they arrive, acts dailyAI
Get all project updates in one weekly email
Once a week you get every project update and each project's health in a single summary.
See how it worksThe moment it happensAI
Spot frustrated comments on customer issues
When a comment on a customer issue sounds frustrated, you hear about it before it escalates.
See how it works Your own logicAny other automation you can describe in words
Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Linear, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.
See how to build your ownBuild your own
Build any Linear automation you can describe
The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Linear should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
For example, ask your assistant
When a Linear issue is created without a label, use AI to read the title and description and set the Bug, Feature or Improvement label.
Every morning, post Linear issues marked Urgent that are still in Todo to #engineering on Slack.
Every Monday, add last week's completed Linear issues by team to my Velocity sheet in Google Sheets and email the totals to me through Gmail.
Works with
Linear with the apps you already use
Bugs and requests start in chat, email and spreadsheets. Connect Linear to them so issues get created where problems show up and progress reaches people who don't open Linear.
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Linear + Google Sheets
Keep a list of sites or checks in a sheet and open Linear issues when something fails, like an SSL certificate about to expire.
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Linear + Gmail
Turn support emails into Linear issues, and send a recap of meeting action items once they're in Linear.
Popular ideas
Linear works with hundreds of other apps
Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jira
- Notion
- Discord
- Microsoft Teams
- Sentry
- Intercom
- Zendesk
- Figma
- Vercel
- PagerDuty
- Typeform
- Airtable
- Google Calendar
- Telegram
Beyond chat
Have Linear work when you're not in the chat
Connecting Linear to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.
Instant
Get a Slack message for every new Linear issueThe moment it happens
On a schedule
Get a weekly report of finished workOn a schedule
Collects, then acts
Get all project updates in one weekly emailCollects as they arrive, acts daily
Setup
Connect Linear
You connect Linear with a personal API key that you create in your Linear settings. The automation acts as you, with your access.
Linear
Issue tracking
- In Linear, open Settings, Account, Security & access.
- Create a personal API key and copy it.
- In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Linear.
Good to know
Linear limits that affect automations
- A workspace admin can restrict who may create API keys. If you can't create one, ask an admin.
- Creating Linear webhooks needs admin rights. Without them, automations that react to new issues check for them on a schedule instead.
- Linear limits API use by query complexity per hour, so very large exports are paged through over a run.
- Issue SLAs are only available on Linear's Business and Enterprise plans.
FAQ
Questions about automating Linear
What can ClickRuntime see and change in Linear?
What your own Linear account can. It can read issues, comments, projects and project updates, and create or update issues, such as changing their team, labels, priority or status.
Does it react straight away?
With a Linear webhook, yes: new issues, priority changes and comments are handled the moment they happen. Webhooks need a workspace admin to set up. Otherwise the automation checks for changes on a schedule.
Can it create Linear issues from outside Linear?
Yes. It can give you a link that a bug form or alerting tool sends to, and create an issue in the team you choose for each submission.
Do I need AI for Linear automations?
No. Alerts, stale-issue digests, exports and auto-moving issues run without it. Bug triage, sentiment checks and written summaries use the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Linear connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Linear data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Linear while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Linear event.
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