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Linear Update

  • 168 installs
  • 128 repo stars
  • Updated July 24, 2026
  • finesssee/linear-cli

Update Linear issue status, priority, assignee, labels and due dates from the terminal, plus list and create comments.

About

A CLI skill for updating Linear issues, changing status, priority, assignee, labels, and due dates. A developer uses it to modify issues and post comments without the web UI.

  • Update status, priority, assignee, labels, due date via flags
  • Comment commands cm list/create; --id-only agent pattern

Linear Update by the numbers

  • 168 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #1,120 of 3,282 Productivity & Planning skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
npx skills add https://github.com/finesssee/linear-cli --skill linear-update

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Installs168
repo stars128
Last updatedJuly 24, 2026
Repositoryfinesssee/linear-cli

What it does

Update Linear issue status, priority, assignee, labels and due dates from the terminal, plus list and create comments.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Update Issues

# Status
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -s Done
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -s "In Progress"

# Priority
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -p 1    # 1=urgent, 2=high, 3=normal, 4=low

# Assignee
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -a me
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -a "John Doe"

# Labels
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -l bug
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -l bug -l urgent

# Due date
linear-cli i update LIN-123 --due tomorrow
linear-cli i update LIN-123 --due +3d

# Agent patterns
linear-cli i update LIN-123 -s Done --id-only

Comments

linear-cli cm list LIN-123
linear-cli cm create LIN-123 -b "Fixed in commit abc"

Flags

FlagPurpose
--id-onlyReturn ID only
--output jsonJSON output

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