Creates a new Linear issue with specified details. Use this to create tickets for tasks, bugs, or feature requests. Returns the created issue
AI agents use linear_create_issue to create or update resources in Linear MCP Server — usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Linear MCP Server environment.
This tool creates new data in the Linear issue tracking system, which is reversible (issues can be deleted or archived). It does not execute arbitrary code, move financial resources, or destructively delete data. The severity is medium because creation of spurious issues could clutter the system and waste team time, but the impact is containable through deletion or archival.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it "Creates a new Linear issue" and "Returns the created issue". This is a creation operation that modifies the Linear system by adding new data (issues/tickets).
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access linear_create_issue gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Linear MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for linear_create_issue:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"linear_create_issue": {
"limits": [
{
"counter": "linear_create_issue_rate",
"window": "minute",
"max": 30,
"scope": "grant"
}
]
}
}
}linear_create_issue stays usable, but capped — an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Creates a new Linear issue with specified details. Use this to create tickets for tasks, bugs, or feature requests. Returns the created issue. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Linear MCP Server MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
Register the Linear MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for linear_create_issue: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Linear MCP Server. Nothing to install.
linear_create_issue is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the linear_create_issue rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for linear_create_issue. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
linear_create_issue is provided by the Linear MCP Server MCP server (jerhadf/linear-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Linear MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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