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Connect your Linear workspace and Pencel can tell you where your issues and projects stand, and create, update and comment on issues for you, with your approval.

What Pencel can do with it ​

  • Get a status update. On Home, ask "What's still open in the Website Refresh project, and who owns each item?"
  • Spot what's stuck. "Which issues have been in progress for more than a week?"
  • Log work. "Create a Linear issue for this customer request and assign it to Priya."
  • Tidy up. "Add a comment to the checkout bug saying the fix is scheduled for Friday."

What it can reach: the teams, projects, issues and comments your Linear account can open.

Connect it ​

  1. Go to Settings ▸ Connections ▸ Recommended.
  2. Find Linear and click Install.
  3. Your browser opens on Linear. Sign in and approve access for your workspace.
  4. Back in Pencel, the Linear card reads Installed.

Linear runs this connection itself, so your issues go between your computer and Linear directly.

What needs your approval ​

Creating or updating an issue, changing its status or assignee, and adding a comment all ask first. The approval card shows exactly what Pencel will write. You can approve it, Edit fields first, or Reject it.

For routine actions you trust, Always Allow stops Pencel asking about that action. In a room, deleting something asks every time.

Good to know ​

  • Pencel works with your permissions. If you can't see a team or project in Linear, neither can Pencel.
  • Rooms use only their own accounts. A room can read Linear only if it's set up to use this connection. See its settings under Advanced ▸ Tools & accounts.

Disconnect or change what it can do ​

Go to Settings ▸ Connections ▸ Installed and open the ⋮ menu on the Linear card.

  • Manage Tools: switch off anything you don't want Pencel to use, such as creating or updating issues. Click Save changes.
  • Disconnect: pause the connection. Click Connect to turn it back on.
  • Remove: delete the connection and its saved sign-in from Pencel.

To also withdraw access on Linear's side, remove Pencel from the authorized applications in your Linear settings.