Linear
Create and manage Linear issues and cycles. Modern issue tracking for engineering teams.
Details
Linear skill integrates with Linear for issues, projects, and cycles. Create issues, update status, and query backlogs—alternative to Jira for fast-moving teams.
When to use
Use when the agent should manage Linear issues or report on cycles. Requires Linear API key; good for product and eng alignment.
How Linear fits into your OpenClaw setup
Development skills are the workhorses of an OpenClaw setup. They give your assistant the ability to participate in real engineering work — reading and writing code, running tooling, and reporting back in the channel where you already collaborate. Linear belongs to this group, and like most development skills it pays off fastest when it is wired into the projects you touch every day rather than installed and forgotten.
A typical session
Day to day, Linear gets invoked the way you would delegate to a colleague: state the goal, let the assistant choose the tool, and review what comes back. Output lands in your team channel, so command results and follow-ups stay attached to the conversation that prompted them — useful when someone asks three weeks later why a change was made.
Installing Linear
Like every ClawHub skill, this one installs with a single command, run from your OpenClaw folder. Restart the assistant afterwards so the skill registers. Some skills need credentials or OAuth access before they will do anything useful; the README will tell you if this one does.
Once the assistant is back online, test it with a simple, low-stakes request that exercises the skill. A quick verification now saves confusion later, because you will know the difference between a skill that is not installed and one that is misconfigured.
clawhub install linearGetting the most out of it
No skill does its best work alone. The assistant routinely chains Linear with other installed capabilities — gathering context with one skill, acting with another, reporting with a third — without being asked to. That is why it pays to choose skills as a toolkit rather than one at a time: each addition makes the others more capable.
If you would rather skip the trial and error, that is exactly what we do. We install and configure OpenClaw, select and tune skills like Linear for your workflow, and build custom skills where the catalogue falls short.