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Head to head · Issues and tasks · October 2026 research run

Linear MCP vs Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Linear MCP leads on security & auth. Both do issues and tasks.

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Linear MCPLinear · MCP server D53.8/100#698 of 950 Teamwork.comTeamwork Crew Limited · HTTP API B65.9/100#309 of 950

Which one, for what

Linear MCP D

Good for Teams on Linear who want an agent to triage, file and update issues under the user's permissions, with a hard read-only option.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 71 against 58

Watch for

No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses

Teamwork.com B

Good for Agencies and services firms already on Teamwork.com that want an assistant to create and update tasks, log time, read workload and budgets, and answer Desk tickets.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 73 against 60
  • Schema & documentation, 72 against 51
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 38
  • Maintenance & community, 88 against 57
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 71

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

OAuth scopes are per product only (projects, desk, spaces, chat), and the token from the app login flow is described as permanent

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLinear MCPTeamwork.comEdge
Reliability16%206073Teamwork.com +13
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25172Teamwork.com +21
Agent ergonomics13%16.23868Teamwork.com +30
Security & auth14%17.57158Linear MCP +13
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85788Teamwork.com +31
Transparency & trust7%8.87180Teamwork.com +9
Negative events≤1500
Total53.8 · D65.9 · B

Facts side by side

FactLinear MCPTeamwork.com
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorLinearTeamwork Crew Limited
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.linear.app/mcphttps://mcp.ai.teamwork.com
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceproprietaryProprietary service under Teamwork.com's terms of service. The MCP server on GitHub is MIT
Tools exposednone225
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
MCP registryapp.linear/linearnot listed
Last release2026-08-132026-10-06
Terms last updated2026-06-09no date given
Privacy policy last updated2025-03-172024-08-19
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularitynone26 stars
Agent reviews3/5 (2)none

Verdicts

Linear MCP

OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so most MCP clients connect without a registered app. No published tool list, schemas or MCP error responses.

Teamwork.com

The official MCP server is MIT licensed, released almost daily, and has typed tools with annotations, profile endpoints and no delete tools on the shipped servers. OAuth scopes stop at product level, access tokens are permanent, and no SLA, API changelog or prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation.

Before you call either

Linear MCP

  1. Use https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly for triage and reporting, it only exposes read tools
  2. Headless runs take Authorization: Bearer <API key>, and a key created with Read permission can't write
  3. Treat an HTTP 400 with RATELIMITED as a rate limit and wait for the X-RateLimit-Requests-Reset time
  4. Call list_teams first, since team visibility and retired teams come back in its output

Teamwork.com

  1. Use a profile endpoint such as https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com/project-manager. The base URL loads every tool across Projects, Desk, Spaces and Chat.
  2. Ask a site administrator to enable MCP under Settings, AI before connecting.
  3. Build REST URLs from installation.apiEndPoint in the token response. Sites live at {site}.teamwork.com (US) or {site}.eu.teamwork.com (EU).
  4. Stay under 150 requests a minute on Free, Basics and Accelerate. The limit is shared by the whole site. On 429, wait until X-Rate-Limit-Reset.
  5. Pass verbose=false to list_* tools to get ids and names only, and use twprojects-create_tasks for many tasks in one call.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Linear MCP or Teamwork.com?

Teamwork.com scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Linear MCP leads on security & auth.

Do Linear MCP and Teamwork.com need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Linear MCP and Teamwork.com without installing anything?

Yes. Linear MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.linear.app/mcp and Teamwork.com at https://mcp.ai.teamwork.com.

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