What problem does it solve? Starting work on a Linear issue usually requires manually gathering issue details, comments, linked documents, and sub-issues, then figuring out where in the codebase to make changes. This Skill automates that entire kickoff: it pulls full issue context, researches the repository, creates a branch, moves the issue to In Progress, and implements the change with a structured preflight review. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Full Issue Context Loading: Fetches the Linear issue with comments, attachments, linked documents/notes, parent issue, and child sub-issues before planning. - Depth-Gated Planning: Runs a preflight gate covering invariants, data-access safety, failure handling, reviewer risks, and an acceptance-to-validation map before writing code. - Branch and Status Automation: Creates and pushes a git branch from the issue's branch name or a title-derived slug, then moves the issue to In Progress. - Use Case: A developer pastes a Linear issue URL and says "start work". The Skill summarizes the issue and linked docs, inspects the repo, prints a preflight plan, creates the branch, updates the status, and implements the change with tests. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to start work on a Linear issue by providing its URL or key, for example: start work on ENG-1234.
