Prerequisite: Third-party connectors are available only on the Sana Enterprise tier, with one exception: the Workday connector is included for both Sana Core and Sana Enterprise.

Introduction

Connect Linear to Sana to search, create, and manage issues, initiatives, views, and comments across your teams and projects. Triage bugs and track progress without leaving Sana.

In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:

Category: Project management
Connector type: Real-time
Auth type: OAuth
Hosting type: Managed

Capabilities

This connector is able to do the following:

Capability

List teams

List projects

Create projects

Search issues

Create issues

Update issues

Manage initiatives

List views

Comment on issues

Tools

While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about Linear. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.

Tool

Create comment

Create initiative

Create issue

Create project

Get current user

Get issue

Get teams

Get view issues

List comments

List initiatives

List projects

List views

List workflow states

Remove label from issue

Search issues

Update initiative

Update issue

Note: This article lists the connector's full set of tools. Your workspace owner can disable individual tools for your workspace, so some of those listed here may not be available to your agents. If a tool you expected is missing, reach out to your workspace owner.

Triggers

While tools are the actions an agent takes on your behalf, triggers are the events that can start an agent automatically. When you build an agent, you can choose one of the triggers below as its starting point. For example, having the agent run every time something new happens in Linear.

Trigger

Issue Status Updated (Instant)

Issue Updated (Instant)

New Comment Created (Instant)

New Issue Created (Instant)

New Project Update Written (Instant)

Project Updated (Instant)

Scope and permissions

This connector uses OAuth. When you connect your account, you will need to sign into your account and grant the required permissions:

Scope	Purpose
admin	Read configs of custom workspace-level settings
read	Read teams, projects, and issues
write	Update existing issues
issues:create	Create new issues

Set up instructions

Prerequisites:

You are a Sana Enterprise user – all third-party connectors except the Workday connector are available only for users on the Sana Enterprise tier.
Your Sana workspace owner has enabled this connector – if the workspace owner has disabled the connector it won't appear in the list of available connectors.

Step 1: Go to the connectors page in Sana

In Sana, click on your profile icon and name in the bottom left corner and select Connectors.

Step 2: Find Linear in the list of available connectors

Scroll to the Available connectors section and locate Linear.

Note: If you can't find a connector in this list, it means one of the following:

You've already connected it — check the ”Active connectors” section at the top of the connectors page, or
Your workspace owner has disabled this connector for your workspace — reach out to them for more information or to request that it be enabled.

Step 3: Hover the connector card and click the connect button

Hover the Linear card and click the Connect button.

Tip: If you click the card itself instead of the Connect button, you'll open a connector detail page with more information about its capabilities.

Step 4: Initialize the Pipedream connection

When clicking Connect in the previous step, a pop-up will appear powered by Pipedream. Click the Continue button in the pop-up to initialize the set up.

Note: Sana uses Pipedream to connect your account. Pipedream is a Workday product, trusted by millions of people to keep their data secure.

Step 5: Sign in to Linear and approve the requested scopes

You'll be redirected to Linear to go through their OAuth flow. Sign in and approve the scopes Sana needs to operate the connector.

Step 6: Complete the set up

You've successfully connected your Linear account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.

Known limitations

Projects: The connector cannot update or delete projects. Listing exposes only key fields (id, name, lead, status, progress, url). Project creation only sets team, name, and description.
Search: Teams and projects can only be listed — no filtered search. Issue search is limited to filtering by team, project, assignee, label, and title.
Users: The connector cannot look up users by name or email — only by ID.