About Linear

What is Linear? Linear offers a clean, intuitive platform that helps engineering, product, and design teams manage projects, track issues, and optimize their development process. Watch our Intro to Linear video for a 101 on Linear.

What is Linear for Agents? Agents are AI-driven members of your Linear workspace. They can be assigned to issues, added to projects, or @mentioned in comment threads, then complete work on complex tasks on your behalf. Agents can work across multiple issues and tools simultaneously.

Your Task

Build an AI agent that can work as a teammate to help human Linear users. Winners will receive the rare Linear Supply Kit, containing a curated collection of tools for builders and a $50 Amazon gift card.

Submission requirements:

• Projects must be built using the Linear for Agents API and/or SDK
• Include a 1-4 minute video demoing your agent working on, implementing, or resolving a Linear issue or Project
• Provide a novel solution to an issue commonly faced by PMs, engineers, and designers building software. Some examples include:
  • Product documentation and changelogs are out of date and falling behind the pace of feature launches.
  • PMs spend a lot of time researching customer details such as their industry, contact info, tech stack, etc. to inform feature specs and design.
  • Engineers are spending too much time resolving simple bug reports.
  • A company has added a number of agents to work with them, but they need a way to manage all of these new agentic teammates. They would like some way to better handle multi-agent workflows, handoffs between agents, review of agent work, and merging of agent work.
  • An engineering team is having trouble reviewing and merging PRs on a timely basis. (See our PR review feature, currently in public alpha.)
  • Employees are taking too long deciding what to order for lunch every day, greatly impacting overall productivity.
  • For more ideas, watch our request for agents.
• You may use any model you wish, but refer to our recommendations in the resources below

Judging criteria:

• Hack offers a creative and novel solution not yet represented by existing agents (Innovation - 30%)
• Implementation must include code that responds to an @mention or issue assignment in Linear (Technical implementation - 30%)
• Submission video clearly and succinctly demonstrates the agent’s capabilities within Linear (Demo - 20%)
• Agent function and UX is informed by real world use cases and workflows (Applications - 20%)

Resources

Linear for Agents

https://linear.app/agents