# Show Linear Issue

> Use this skill when the user asks about a specific Linear issue by identifier (e.g. BLA-123, ENG-456) — for viewing the description, state, assignee, or comments. Trigger when the user says 'look up', 'check on', 'tell me about', 'what's on', or 'what is the status of' an identifier, or asks any direct question about an issue they reference. Do NOT trigger when an identifier appears incidentally inside other prose (commit messages, code review comments, release notes), where the user is talking about the issue rather than asking to fetch it.

- Skill: `atomicinnovation/show-linear-issue` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add atomicinnovation/show-linear-issue`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/atomicinnovation/show-linear-issue/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: atomicinnovation (https://skillmd.com/u/atomicinnovation)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/atomicinnovation/show-linear-issue

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# Show Linear Issue

!`accelerator config context --skill show-linear-issue --fail-safe`

> **Configuration**: Set `work.integration: linear` in `.accelerator/config.md`.
> See the
> [`### work` section of `configure/SKILL.md`](../../config/configure/SKILL.md#work)
> for the full reference.

Fetch and render a single Linear issue by identifier.

## Step 1: Resolve the identifier

Read the issue identifier from the argument string (e.g. `BLA-123`). If none was
supplied, ask the user which issue to show.

## Step 2: Fetch the issue

Run:

```
accelerator linear show <IDENTIFIER> [--comments N]
```

Run the bare launcher **directly** as an executable; never prefix it with
`bash`/`sh`/`env` (a wrapper prefix escapes the skill's `allowed-tools`
permission and forces an unnecessary prompt).

The subcommand emits a JSON document with a top-level `outcome` keyword —
`found` or `not-found`. When `outcome` is `not-found`, tell the user the issue
was not found.

## Step 3: Render the issue

Render the issue's fields under `.data.issue`:

- **Identifier**: `.identifier`
- **Title**: `.title`
- **State**: `.state.name`
- **Assignee**: `.assignee.name` (or `unassigned`)
- **Description**: `.description` — already native Markdown, render it directly
  (no ADF conversion).
- **Comments**: each `.comments.nodes[].body` (Markdown), if any.

!`accelerator config instructions show-linear-issue --fail-safe`