using-linear

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name: using-linear description: Use when working with Linear tickets/issues - establishes workflows for creating and updating tickets (issues)

Accessing Linear

Use your Bash tool to call the linearis executable for communicating with Linear. Prior to your first use of linearis you must run linearis usage once to learn how to use it.

Creating issues and sub-issues

If it's not clear which project a new ticket belongs to, stop and ask the user. When creating sub-issues, use the parent ticket's project.

Working on issues

The return values of the issues commands contain an embeds array which holds the URLs of the screenshots, documents, etc. that are part of the ticket description. If a ticket or comment contains such embeds, fetch and view them as well. Use local caching when needed.

Updating tickets

When you work on a ticket, and the the status of a task in the ticket description has changed (task incomplete -> task done), update the description.

When updating a ticket with a progress report that is more than just a checkbox change, add that report as a ticket comment.

General rule: The ticket description is the starting point for planning. But when work is ongoing, I want to be able to retrace our steps by looking at the ticket and its comments.

Eagerness

Never declare "Implementation Complete!" in a ticket unless explicitly told so.