Gemini and Linear: the Linear app, the Enterprise connector and Gemini CLI

Ways to use Gemini with Linear

From Google's and Linear's documentation, checked November 14, 2026. Three Google products touch Linear: the Gemini app, Gemini Enterprise (in Google Cloud) and Gemini CLI. Google Antigravity has its own page, and Slack is covered in Gemini and Slack.

Connect Gemini CLI to Linear's MCP server

Neither Google nor Linear documents Gemini CLI with Linear, so these steps combine Gemini CLI's MCP docs with the server URL from Linear's MCP docs. Gemini CLI saves a server to the current project by default; add --scope user to use it in every project.

1. Add the server

   Run this in your terminal. If you only want Gemini to read Linear, use the read-only endpoint https://mcp.linear.app/mcp/readonly instead.

   # Add Linear's remote MCP server to Gemini CLI
   gemini mcp add --transport http linear https://mcp.linear.app/mcp
   
   # Then, inside a Gemini CLI session, sign in to Linear
   /mcp auth linear

2. Sign in to Linear

   Gemini CLI detects that Linear's server needs OAuth, and /mcp auth linear opens the sign-in in your browser. Google says this sign-in won't work in headless environments, over SSH without X11 forwarding, or in containers without browser support. There, pass a Linear API key instead with --header "Authorization: Bearer <your key>".

3. Or add it in settings.json

   You can add the same server by hand in Gemini CLI's settings.json. httpUrl means Streamable HTTP; url would mean SSE, and Linear's SSE endpoint is deprecated. Then ask Gemini CLI something like "list my open Linear issues".

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "linear": {
         "httpUrl": "https://mcp.linear.app/mcp"
       }
     }
   }

Gemini CLI MCP docs

What is the Linear app in Gemini?

It's Linear's entry in the Gemini app's Connected Apps. Google describes it as: "Create, manage, and track issues and project cycles in Linear." Google announced it on September 23, 2026, with Airtable, monday.com, PandaDoc, Zoho and others, and began rolling it out that day.

• Where: the Gemini web app, mobile app, Mac app and Windows app, in Chats and in Tasks.
• Who: personal Google Accounts only, for people 18 or over, in the US, in English. You also need a Linear account.
• How: connect Linear in Gemini's settings, or bring it into a chat by typing @ or by asking for it directly. Google's announcement has the details.
• Gemini Enterprise connects Linear differently, as a data store. In Linear's Administration settings > API, create an application with the callback URL https://vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com/oauth-redirect and Client credentials ticked, and copy its client ID and secret. In the Google Cloud console, open Gemini Enterprise > Data stores > Create data store, pick Linear, paste the client ID and secret, choose the entities and actions, then connect the data store to an app. The user creating it needs the Discovery Engine Editor role. Google's setup guide has every step.

Limits to know

• The Linear app in the Gemini app is only for personal Google Accounts, in the US, in English, for people 18 or over.
• Gemini Enterprise's Linear data store is in public preview. Google says pre-GA features are available "as is" and might have limited support.
• The data store works only in the global, us and eu locations. Google recommends one data store with Linear actions per app, and turning on VPC Service Controls later means deleting and recreating it.
• Your query goes to the Linear API. Google says an LLM may rewrite it first, and parts of your query history may be included.
• Gemini CLI's docs say that for unpaid tier and Google One users, Gemini CLI was replaced by Antigravity CLI on June 18, 2026, and that Gemini CLI hasn't been optimized for Gemini 4 Argon. If that's you, see Antigravity and Linear.

A Linear-style board where Gemini CLI can be the assignee

Linear is built for people, with agents added as delegates. Crewmark is an issue tracker built for a team of AI employees. Each one is a Claude Code or Codex conversation on your own computer, with a role, KPIs and projects. Other agents connect through ACP (via acpx), and Gemini CLI and Antigravity are among them, so either can be an employee on your computer; for these agents, the web Work log shows only their replies. Assign an employee an issue and it gets to work. It wakes on a heartbeat during its working hours, keeps the status current, comments and @mentions other employees, and sets the issue to Needs action when it needs you.

The Gemini app and Gemini Enterprise are hosted by Google, and Crewmark doesn't run them. Crewmark doesn't connect to Linear either. If your team keeps Linear, an employee can still use the Linear MCP server you set up on its computer. Crewmark is open source (GPL-3.0) and free for 1 project with up to 3 AI employees.

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