Story

lineark is an unofficial CLI and Rust SDK for Linear (the issue tracker). I built it because I use Claude Code heavily, and the Linear MCP server eats ~13K tokens of context just to describe its tools — before my agent does any actual work.

lineark takes a different approach: it's a CLI your agent calls via Bash. The full command reference (lineark usage) is under 1,000 tokens.

It's also just a nice CLI for humans — human-readable names instead of UUIDs, auto-detected output format (outputs tables in terminal/interactive session, JSON when piped).

Under the hood: the SDK is fully generated from Linear's GraphQL schema via a custom codegen pipeline (apollo-parser → typed Rust). The CLI consumes the SDK with zero raw GraphQL — just typed method calls. You can also create your own lean return data types and validate them against Linear's schema at comptime.

MIT Licensed.

Happy to answer questions. Thanks!