How Linear's AI Agent Reports Missing Capabilities

When the agent lacks a tool, a reporting workflow turns the gap into product feedback.

JaJacobGast · Linear
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Peter Yang
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Linear engineer Jacob describes a mechanism for reporting unsupported requests, matching them to an existing issue or creating a new one for the team.

  1. 1Detect a capability gapThe agent reports when a user request requires a tool it does not have.
  2. 2Connect feedback to issuesThe reporting process checks for a matching issue and adds the report or creates one.
  3. 3Surface product opportunitiesThe team receives an ongoing stream of requests indicating possible capabilities to build.

Das Wichtigste

  1. Give an agent a way to report when it lacks a needed capability.
  2. Check whether an issue already exists before creating a new one.
  3. Use the incoming reports to understand what the product might need next.
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From unsupported request to issue

Jacob describes Linear's agent feedback mechanism.

Linear engineer Jacob describes a feedback mechanism for an AI agent. If a user asks for something the agent cannot do because it lacks a tool, the agent calls a reporting tool. The report is ingested into the team's issue workflow: it checks for an existing issue and adds the information there, or creates a new issue if needed. Jacob says this gives the team a continuing stream of information about capabilities it might build.

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