Does it read issue descriptions or comments?

No. For each issue it keeps the title, priority, state, assignee and completion date.

What counts as urgent work?

Linear’s own priority field: issues marked Urgent or High that are not yet closed.

Linear integration for Founder OS: what it reads and how to connect

Linear integration

The Linear connector reads your issues: what each is, how urgent it is, who has it and whether it is done. Founder OS uses them to say how much urgent work is open and how much was closed this week.

Connected tools are part of Founder OS, which is on Pro Plus. Idea validation is on every plan, including Free. See every tool Founder OS reads.

What Founder OS reads from Linear

Issues: title and priority
State: open, in progress or closed
Assignee name and completion date

What it leaves alone:

Issue descriptions and comments
Projects, cycles and documents

How much each sync reads

The first sync reads every issue, 100 a page, up to 10,000
After that, only issues updated since the last sync

A sync runs when you connect, once a day after that, and whenever you press Sync.

Where the records are used

Ask and the decision log: open issues marked urgent or high priority, and issues closed in the last 7 days

How to connect Linear

Press Continue with Linear and approve read access in Linear’s own screen. No key changes hands, and disconnecting later also ends the access in Linear.

Or connect with a key you create:

In Linear, open Settings, then Security and access.
Create a personal API key and choose read-only access if Linear offers it.

Linear documents this kind of key in its own guide, and you connect your account under Linear’s terms.

Access and security

Approval in Linear asks for the read scope. A grant that reports anything else is refused.
A key is a personal API key from Linear’s settings.

Every request to a connected tool is checked on our server, and anything that is not a read is refused before it leaves. It cannot move money, send a message or change a record. Keys and tokens are encrypted with AES 256 in GCM mode before they are stored, are never shown again, and are kept out of our logs. Disconnecting deletes the key and every record imported from the tool, in one step. For a tool you approved, we also ask the tool to end our access. The security page sets out the rest.

Questions

Does it read issue descriptions or comments?: No. For each issue it keeps the title, priority, state, assignee and completion date.
What counts as urgent work?: Linear’s own priority field: issues marked Urgent or High that are not yet closed.

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Connect Linear to Founder OS

Founder OS reads the tools your company runs on and keeps your figures, notes and decisions in one place. It is part of Pro Plus.

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