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 sng-asyncfunc | Read and write Linear issues, projects, cycles, comments, and more via Linear's official MCP server. Tools are auto-discovered from the server at runtime. | Skill | 5 days ago | 18 |
| 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 | 2 days ago | 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 | 25 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 | 2 days ago | 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 5 days ago. You can see current activity on its listing page.