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Coding sessions: environments, browser use, and updated pricing
Elapsed00:00 Remaining time unknown Linear Agent can now set up, run, and test your code before returning its work. That means fewer handoffs and changes that are further along when they come back to you. We’re also intr
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Configurable environments
Coding sessions now automatically adapt to each codebase’s configuration, with broader out-of-the-box support for Python, Ruby, Go, and more. During a session, Linear detects and installs the toolchains and dependencies
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Browser testing
Once the application is running, Linear Agent tests its work where users experience it: in the browser. The agent opens the app, navigates through a flow, and verifies its implementation. It also captures before-and-afte
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Transparent pricing
As coding sessions take on more work, costs need to be easy to understand and easy to control. Starting today, coding sessions use a lower-cost pricing model with two components: - Model usage: Tokens are charged at the
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Team initiatives
Initiatives are Linear’s way to manage product strategy and high-level planning across projects. Strategy may start at the company level, but teams carry it forward. You can now assign a team to lead an initiative, makin
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Coding sessions on mobile
Elapsed00:00 Remaining time unknown Your coding session doesn’t have to stop when you leave your desk. Use the Linear mobile app to review code changes, comment on specific lines, and iterate with Linear Agent. Open any
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Guided Reviews are now generally available
Guided Reviews) break diffs into focused sections with explainers on what changed and why. As part of general availability, they are now generated for larger pull requests, with a bigger context window and better latency
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Support for GitHub teams in reviews
You can now assign reviews to GitHub teams. Review requests assigned to your GitHub teams appear in a dedicated section of the Reviews inbox. Learn more in the docs.
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Signed commits for coding sessions
Coding sessions now support signed commits. Add your SSH or GPG key in Settings to enable signing. Workspace admins can also require users to upload a signing key before using coding sessions.
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GitHub Copilot for Linear
GitHub Copilot users can assign issues directly to Copilot’s cloud agent from Linear. Copilot uses the issue context to work in its own development environment, open draft pull requests, and update the issue as it makes
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Text attribution and agent-assisted editing
Documents and project descriptions are critical context for your teams and agents. You can now edit text with Linear Agent, and use Loops to keep docs and project descriptions up-to-date. Author name indicators let you c
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Introducing Loops
Elapsed00:00 Remaining time unknown Loops are a new way for Linear Agent to take on recurring work for your team. Describe the job in plain language and then choose whether it should run on a schedule or in response to a
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Initiative properties
Initiatives define your company’s high-level goals and organize the projects that contribute to them. To help you manage initiatives as your roadmap grows, we’ve added a new set of focused initiative properties: - Propos
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Centrally manage access to Linear’s MCP server in Claude
Give employees secure access to Linear and other MCP servers in Claude, without requiring them to authenticate with each server individually. Enterprise-managed Authorization lets Okta administrators manage access and pe
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Agent assisted project updates
Elapsed00:00 Remaining time unknown Project and initiative updates keep teams aligned, but writing them means pulling out recent changes from issues, documents, and discussions. Instead of finding that context manually,
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Desktop navigation history and pinned tabs
We’ve rebuilt our desktop tabs to make navigation feel fluid and predictable. - Each desktop tab now has its own history stack, so moving backwards won’t navigate you to another tab - Pinned tabs are now a reliable home
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Private sub-teams
Private sub-teams organize groups that work together under one umbrella, like independent business units, skunkworks efforts, or teams handling sensitive data like People Ops. When you create a sub-team under a private t
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Build agents with Vercel Eve
Vercel Eve is an open-source framework for building custom agents. Build agents that can investigate incidents, monitor SLAs, or analyze customer feedback. You can deploy agents on Vercel with the guided setup, or host t
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Release pipeline changelogs
Releases let you plan and track your software releases. Now, you can also keep your team aligned on what’s shipping with changelogs for each release pipeline. These changelogs bring a pipeline’s release notes together in
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OAuth application manifests
OAuth application manifests let platforms provide a one-click OAuth app setup experience for users creating integrations. Use URL parameters to send users directly to a pre-filled _Create OAuth App_ form in Linear. An eq
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Coding sessions in Linear
Elapsed00:00 Remaining time unknown Earlier this year, we launched Linear Agent, giving teams a new way to plan and coordinate their issues and projects. Since then, we’ve added Code Intelligence to extend that understan
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A coding agent your team will love
Coding sessions run in the cloud, so you can prototype ideas and make changes without setting up a local development environment. When the change is ready, Linear returns a new diff for review. Share preview links, bring
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Automate the first pass
When a new issue is reported, Linear Agent can investigate and attempt a fix before it reaches an engineer, reducing the load on your team. It follows your team’s guidance, gathers evidence from tools like Sentry or Data
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Availability and pricing
Coding sessions are available on Basic, Business, and Enterprise plans. They require a GitHub connection with code access and use AI credits to run. Workspace admins can enable coding sessions in Settings and manage acce
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Team documents
Important team context doesn’t always belong in a specific issue, project, or initiative. Teams also need a dedicated place for the notes, docs, and shared references that support their work over time. Now, every team ha
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Shared skills for Linear Agent
Skills let you save reusable instructions for Linear Agent. We now support sharing skills with your team so great personal workflows can become shared team process. Sharing a skill helps your team standardize recurring w
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Linear Diffs
Elapsed00:00 Remaining time unknown Agents generate large volumes of code, but individuals are still accountable for the changes that merge. This leads to a lot of review work, and the capability and performance of tradi
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