# `io.usefulapi/linear` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.usefulapi/linear
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.usefulapi/linear
- Version: 1.16.3 (active)
- Publisher: io.usefulapi (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/m190/usefulapi-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T19:23:21.685Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Linear MCP by usefulapi
Search, read and create Linear issues, projects, teams and cycles.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:40:41.733Z over streamable-http.

**8 tools: 2 change things and 6 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 6 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `linear_add_comment`

- The name "linear_add_comment" says "add": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
⚠[U+FE0F] WRITE / MUTATING: posts a comment on an issue. Requires the issueId (UUID) and a markdown body. GraphQL: mutation commentCreate.
```

### `linear_create_issue`

- The name "linear_create_issue" says "create": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
⚠[U+FE0F] WRITE / MUTATING: creates a new issue in Linear. Requires a teamId (from linear_list_teams) and a title. Optional description (markdown), priority (0=none,1=urgent,2=high,3=medium,4=low), and assigneeId. GraphQL: mutation issueCreate.
```

## Only reads (6)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `linear_get_issue`

- The name "linear_get_issue" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a single issue by its UUID or human identifier (e.g. "ENG-123"), including description, state, assignee and recent comments. Read-only. GraphQL: query issue(id).
```

### `linear_list_cycles`

- The name "linear_list_cycles" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List cycles (sprints), optionally scoped to a team by key, with number, name and start/end dates. Read-only. GraphQL: query cycles(filter).
```

### `linear_list_projects`

- The name "linear_list_projects" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List projects in the workspace (id, name, state, progress, target date). Read-only. GraphQL: query projects.
```

### `linear_list_teams`

- The name "linear_list_teams" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the teams in the workspace (id, key, name). Use a team's id for linear_create_issue or its key for linear_search_issues. Read-only. GraphQL: query teams.
```

### `linear_my_issues`

- The description's first verb is "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List issues assigned to the current user (the API key's owner / OAuth actor) via viewer.assignedIssues. Read-only. GraphQL: query viewer { assignedIssues }.
```

### `linear_search_issues`

- The name "linear_search_issues" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find issues, optionally filtered by a text query (matches title), team key, workflow-state name, or assignee email. Read-only. GraphQL: query issues(filter, first).
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `linear`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__linear__linear_search_issues",
      "mcp__linear__linear_get_issue",
      "mcp__linear__linear_list_teams",
      "mcp__linear__linear_list_projects",
      "mcp__linear__linear_my_issues",
      "mcp__linear__linear_list_cycles"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__linear__linear_create_issue",
      "mcp__linear__linear_add_comment"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```