Samcfinan Linear MCP Server

🚀 Linear MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server for the Linear API. It aims to be more powerful than the existing Linear MCP servers and enables comprehensive project management with Claude.

Based on https://github.com/jerhadf/linear-mcp-server with additional features.

🚀 Quick Start

This is a MCP server for the Linear API, designed to enhance project management capabilities with Claude.

✨ Features

• Initiatives
• Projects
• Issues
• Relationships
• Priorities

📦 Installation

Add the server configuration to the Claude desktop.

⚠️ Important Note

Claude doesn't work well with the nvm environment. Make sure to reference the absolute path version of Node.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linear": {
      "command": "/Users/USERNAME/.nvm/versions/node/v22.13.0/bin/node",
      "args": [
        "--experimental-strip-types",
        "/absolute/path/to/repo/index.ts"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LINEAR_API_KEY": "your_linear_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

💻 Usage Examples

Project Management

• create-project - Create a new Linear project
• view-project - View a Linear project by ID
• update-project - Update a Linear project

Initiative Management

• create-initiative - Create a new Linear initiative
• view-initiative - View a Linear initiative by ID
• update-initiative - Update a Linear initiative

Issue Management

• create-issue - Create a new Linear issue
• view-issue - View a Linear issue by ID
• update-issue - Update a Linear issue
• search-issues - Search for Linear issues

Issue Relationships

• create-issue-relation - Create a relationship (blocking, duplicate, etc.) between two issues
• view-issue-relations - View all relationships for a given issue
• delete-issue-relation - Delete a relationship between two issues