Linear AI Agent — Codowave

Turn Linear Issues Into Merged PRs

Your Linear board is a list of intentions. Each issue is a thing someone decided was worth doing, and most of them sit in Backlog or Todo because nobody has the hours. Codowave reads that board, picks issues that match your filters, writes the code in an isolated container, runs your test suite, and opens a GitHub PR linked back to the Linear issue.

The result is the same workflow your team already runs — Linear is still where work is defined and triaged — except a chunk of the backlog now ships itself while you focus on the hard problems.

How the Linear Integration Works

Codowave connects to your Linear workspace and your GitHub repo. Linear stays the source of truth for what to build; GitHub is where the work lands. The flow is backlog-first — you don't write a prompt per issue. The Linear issue is the spec.

1. Connect Linear and your repo. Authorize Codowave's Linear app and the GitHub App. Codowave starts reading issues immediately.
2. Pick a trigger. Tell Codowave which states or labels to pull from — for example, issues in a Ready for agent state, or anything labeled bug under a complexity threshold.
3. The multi-agent loop runs. Planner decomposes the issue and flags affected files, Coder writes the change against your repo conventions, Reviewer scores the diff, Tester runs your suite and fills coverage gaps.
4. A PR opens, linked both ways. The GitHub PR references the Linear issue, and Codowave moves the Linear issue to In Progress, then In Review, as the work advances. Test output is attached to the PR.

Because Linear and GitHub both stay in sync, your team sees normal progress on the board — they don't have to learn a new tool or check a separate dashboard.

What Maps Where

You keep estimates, cycles, projects, and triage exactly as they are. Codowave reads the metadata you already maintain rather than asking you to maintain a second system.

Safety First — Watch-Only by Default

The first week, Codowave runs in watch-only mode. It opens PRs and updates Linear, but it never auto-merges. You review each PR the way you'd review a careful junior engineer's work: read the diff, check the test output, confirm it respects your conventions.

Two controls make this safe to leave running:

• Cost ceiling per run. Every agent run has a hard dollar cap you set. If an issue would blow past it, Codowave stops, returns partial work, and flags the issue. No runaway Anthropic bills.
• Scoped filters. Codowave only touches issues that match the states, labels, and complexity limits you configured. It won't wander into the Payments epic if you told it to stick to bug.

Once you've watched it handle a handful of issues correctly, you can opt into auto-merge for low-risk categories and keep human review for everything else.

Why Pull From Linear Instead of Prompting

Most AI coding tools wait for you to type a prompt. That's fine when you know exactly what you want and have time to write it out. It's a poor fit for a Linear backlog of forty issues, each already specified by whoever filed it.

Codowave inverts that. The work is already written down in Linear. Codowave reads it, asks for clarification on a Linear comment if an issue is ambiguous, and otherwise just does it. After roughly ten merged PRs, pattern memory kicks in: Codowave learns your file layout, naming, and test style, so later PRs read like they came from someone on the team.

It uses your own Anthropic Claude key (BYOK), so you control the model and see the spend directly.

Get Started

1. Sign up at codowave.com/signup — no card required, the free plan covers 3 issues.
2. Connect your Linear workspace and your GitHub repo.
3. Choose the Linear states or labels Codowave should pull from.
4. Leave it in watch-only mode and review the first few PRs.
5. Enable auto-merge for the categories you trust once the output looks right.

Plans start at $20/mo. See pricing for the details.