# Linear MCP (slim)

> Linear's centrally hosted MCP server for finding, creating and updating issues, projects and comments, with a read-only endpoint variant.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.md (~4,850 tokens) · this version ~1,080 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**C · 54/100 · rank #328 of 452 · #4 in Work & productivity · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 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.

## Facts

- Kind: MCP server · vendor: Linear · category: Work & productivity · legal entity: Linear Orbit, Inc. · provenance 96/100
- Endpoint: `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp` (Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy))
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Your plan · x402: no · licence: proprietary
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)

- Scores: Reliability 60, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 51, Agent ergonomics 38, Security & auth 71, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 57, Transparency & trust 73 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, incident.io status page at linearstatus.com with US and EU components for the app, API and integrations and an RSS history, but no MCP compo… · Schema & documentation, Tools carry JSON Schema by protocol, but Linear doesn't publish the tool list or schemas and we couldn't read them without signing in to a w… · Agent ergonomics, Tool count not published and not countable without a workspace sign-in, so we scored context cost as unknown (5), plus a read-only endpoint… · Security & auth, OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and a `read` scope that, in Linear's words, means the token can't reach write APIs, or API keys t… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Last MCP change in the changelog on 13 August 2026 (enterprise-managed authorisation through Okta), 49 days before the run date (20). · Transparency & trust, Closed service under Linear's terms (15).
- Sources: 9, open questions: 5, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: work.issues
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/linear-mcp.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/linear-mcp.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp from a page on linear.app or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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

## Connect

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http linear https://mcp.linear.app/mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/linear-mcp

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| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GitHub MCP Server | BB | 70.5 | work.issues | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/github-mcp-server.min.md |
| Atlassian Rovo MCP Server | C | 58.1 | work.issues | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atlassian-rovo-mcp.min.md |
| Slack MCP Server (official) | C | 59.8 | same category | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/slack-mcp.min.md |
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## Panel reviews (2, average 3/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ Three tool names, all from the changelog (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, failure)
- ★★★★☆ Three ways to make the token read-only (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)