linear alternatives
The most used alternatives to linear are draft-release-notes, concise-planning, teamharness-organization. All are productivity skills with an active GitHub repository, ranked below by GitHub stars and recent activity.
| # | Skill | What it does | Runs | Updated | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ref | linear deadlock-mod-manager | Read Linear tickets and resolve their comments, dependencies, and acceptance criteria; update tickets when the user requests it. | Skill | yesterday | 501 |
| 1 | draft-release-notes cobusgreyling | Generate categorized release notes draft from scan data. Human must approve before publish. | Skill | yesterday | 12k |
| 2 | concise-planning sickn33 | Use when a user asks for a plan for a coding task, to generate a clear, actionable, and atomic checklist. | Skill | 2 days ago | 48k |
| 3 | teamharness-organization agentscope-ai | Use to understand TeamHarness team roles, responsibility boundaries, and who owns project, task, runtime, and control-plane work. | Skill | yesterday | 5.8k |
| 4 | evernote asgeirtj | Read and create notes through Evernote's official MCP server. | Skill | yesterday | 70k |
| 5 | paperclip-converting-plans-to-tasks paperclipai | Decide whether Paperclip work needs delegation, and connect justified tasks with owners and real dependencies. Use when turning an authorized plan into work. | Skill | yesterday | 105k |
| 6 | delegate-work paperclipai | Delegate user-requested work to an existing Paperclip agent, with a durable task reference and clear execution expectations. | Skill | yesterday | 105k |
| 7 | use-fsutil marin-community | Use Marin's fsutil CLI for local object-storage operations across GCS, CoreWeave S3, R2, and local paths. Use whenever a task needs to list, inspect, read, size, find, copy, move, synchronize, hash, browse, or remove data at gs:// or s3:// URLs from a checkout. Do not launch an Iris job solely to access object storage. | Skill | yesterday | 4.0k |
| 8 | meeting-notes mergisi | Paste raw meeting notes and get a clean summary with key decisions and action items. | Skill | 24 days ago | 4.0k |
| 9 | claw-cron x-cmd | Claw scheduled task management using x claw cron. Use when the agent needs to add, remove, list, or manage cron jobs within claw. Also use when explaining the difference between heartbeat checks and scheduled tasks. | Skill | 7 days ago | 4.7k |
| 10 | build-and-release thedotmack | Fully automate building and releasing a coding task. | Skill | yesterday | 102k |
| 11 | coding genkit-ai | A skill for coding that should apply to all coding tasks. | Skill | yesterday | 6.5k |
| 12 | jewel-release JetBrains | Prepare a Jewel PR or release: checks, release notes, cherry-picks, tagging. | Skill | yesterday | 21k |
Questions
What is the best alternative to linear?
By usage, draft-release-notes is the most popular alternative, with 12k GitHub stars. The right choice depends on which features and hosting you need.
Is linear still maintained?
Its last commit was yesterday. You can see current activity on its listing page.