Issue context carries delivery intent while agent activity carries spend and provenance.
Product managers need enough history to trust agent-created work without turning every issue into an audit trail.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I opened an issue the agent made, and my director asked what it cost us. I had to go hunting.”
Petros Konstantinou · Product Manager
Runs cycle planning for a growing product development team that uses agents to create and progress work.
What is at stake
Product managers cannot reliably tell how an agent-created issue began or whether it drew on paid credits. You have to weigh traceability against the speed and clarity of the issue workflow.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- issue clarity vs. provenance detail
- real-time speed vs. richer sync data
- credit transparency vs. permission boundaries
- fast learning vs. durable API contracts
Why Linear
The agent workflow and separately purchased AI credits make issue-level provenance part of how product teams judge the product development system.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.