Ops Linear

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Asks to linear sprint
• Create a ticket

Example prompts

• “linear sprint”
• “create a ticket”
• “/ops-linear”

Requirements

• A credential in LINEAR_API_KEY
• A credential in CLAIM_KEY
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Skill, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, WebFetch, mcp__linear__list_issues, mcp__linear__list_teams, mcp__linear__list_projects, mcp__linear__get_issue, mcp__linear__update_issue, mcp__linear__create_issue, mcp__linear__create_comment, mcp__linear__search_issues

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Secrets: Linear API key required for MCP fallback queries.
2. 2Preferences: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/preferences.json for secrets_manager / doppler config.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6a4340b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Skill
  • AskUserQuestion
  • TaskCreate
  • TaskUpdate
  • WebFetch
  • mcp__linear__list_issues

  …and 7 more on the same allowed-tools line.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • api.linear.app

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • LINEAR_API_KEY
  • CLAIM_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ops Linear loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 28 tokens; SKILL.md has 467 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~28

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Skill, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, WebFetch, mcp__linear__list_

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops at commit 6a4340b, republished under its MIT licence (© Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited). 467 words, ~1,692 tokens.

name

ops-linear

description

OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "linear sprint", "create a ticket", or…

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Skill, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, WebFetch, mcp__linear__list_issues, mcp__linear__list_teams, mcp__linear__list_projects, mcp__linear__get_issue, mcp__linear__update_issue, mcp__linear__create_issue, mcp__linear__create_comment, mcp__linear__search_issues

argument-hint

[sprint|create|update|sync|backlog|issue-id]

effort

medium

maxTurns

30

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 LINEAR ► SPRINT [N] — [start] → [end]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

IN PROGRESS
 [id]  [priority]  [title]  [assignee]  [estimate]

TODO
 [id]  [priority]  [title]  [assignee]  [estimate]

DONE THIS SPRINT
 [id]  [title]  [completed date]

BLOCKED / CANCELLED
 [id]  [title]  [reason]

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Sprint velocity: [done points] / [total points] ([%])
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

  [Create new issue]
  [Update issue status]
  [Move issue to/from sprint]
  [More...]

  [View backlog]
  [Sync with GSD phases]

WebFetch(url: "https://api.linear.app/graphql", method: "POST", headers: {"Authorization": "$LINEAR_API_KEY"}, body: '{"query":"{ issues(filter: {cycle: {id: {eq: \"<id>\"}}}}) { nodes { id title state { name } } } }"}')

CLAIM_KEY="linear:issue:<identifier>"
ledger query --claim-key "$CLAIM_KEY" --since=-PT24H

# Claim when creating, updating, or triaging a Linear issue
ledger write \
  --claim-key "$CLAIM_KEY" \
  --kind "file" \
  --status "in_progress" \
  --title "Linear: <identifier> — <title>" \
  --ttl-sec 3600

# Resolve after Linear state is updated
ledger write \
  --claim-key "$CLAIM_KEY" \
  --kind "file" \
  --status "done" \
  --title "Linear: <identifier> — <title>" \
  --context "status→<new_state> | assignee→<assignee>"

© Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in claude-ops/skills/ops-linear of Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6a4340b