Linear

The product development system for teams and agents.

Linear is launching coding sessions, a feature that lets its built-in agent take a triage issue, investigate the root cause in the codebase, write the fix, open a pull request, and bring the diff back for human review without leaving Linear. The release bundles three things: agent-run coding sessions, team-level triage automation that routes incoming bug reports and alerts to the agent when confidence in the root cause is high, and pull request diffs viewable and commentable directly inside Linear. It is aimed at engineering and design teams already using Linear as a project and issue tracking platform who want unplanned work, small bugs, copy changes, and UI tweaks handled before a human engineer picks them up. The launch matters because most agent coding today happens in isolated chat windows or separate sandboxes, disconnected from the issue, the reviewer, and the team. Linear is trying to put the agent, the PR, and the discussion in the same surface where product work already lives, which the company demonstrates internally by having the agent resolve a meaningful share of its own triage queue and ship PRs alongside human reviewers. For designers, the pitch is being able to delegate small visual fixes from inside the product context that prompted the question, and for engineers it is a cleaner handoff when the agent cannot close an issue on its own. Linear was founded by Karri Saarinen, Tuomas Artman, and Jori Lallo, all Finnish but now based in the Bay Area , with Saarinen as CEO, Lallo as CPO, and Artman as CTO . The company started as an issue-tracking tool helping developers coordinate on eliminating blockers and fixing problems, but has expanded into a product-development system , and this release continues that arc by treating agents as first-class collaborators inside the same workflow as the humans on the team.

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