Linear MCP
Community Linear MCP — 346 stars for issue tracking via agents.
About
Linear MCP (jerhadf/linear-mcp-server, 346 stars, MIT) is the community MCP server for Linear: create issues, update cycles, and query projects via agents.
Pushed May 2025 (stale). Community, not official — Linear has since released official MCP support; prefer the official integration for production. Included for completeness; the official Linear MCP is the current answer.
What it can do
- • Linear issues via MCP\n• Project queries\n• Community maintained
Setup
- Install via npm.\n2. Set
LINEAR_API_KEY.\n3. Add to MCP client. (Prefer Linear's official MCP.)
Prerequisites
A Linear API key.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 5/10
Scored 5/10 (metrics tier). Community Linear MCP (346 stars, MIT) but stale since May 2025 and superseded by Linear's official MCP. Docked five points: (1) stale; (2) unofficial; (3) small community; (4) official exists; (5) limited. Use Linear's official MCP.
★ 346 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 5.2/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 2.5/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 8.8/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 5.0/10
- · 346 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 530d ago; 0 releases/12mo; 12 open issues
- · manual review: stale since May 2025; superseded by official Linear MCP; license: MIT
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.