Issue Audit

Understand how a team organizes and writes issues in Linear. Helps PMs onboarding to new teams learn conventions, see examples, and know what questions to ask.

Prerequisites

• Linear MCP must be configured

Entry Point

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Learn how a team organizes work in Linear.
Helps you onboard faster and follow team conventions.

Which team do you want to analyze?

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Usage

/issue-audit [team name]

Examples:

• /issue-audit Customer Experience
• /issue-audit Platform
• /issue-audit "Data Engineering"

What Happens

1. Invokes the team-organization-analyzer agent with your team name
2. Agent fetches team structure: workflow states, labels, cycles
3. Samples 9 issues (3 active, 3 completed, 3 backlog)
4. Analyzes patterns and infers conventions

What You'll Learn

• Workflow: How issues flow through states (Triage -> Done)
• Labels: What taxonomy the team uses (Type, Area, Priority)
• Cycles: Whether they use sprints and cadence
• Patterns: How they write issues (descriptions, titles, hierarchy)
• Conventions: What a new PM should follow

Sample Size Philosophy

9 issues is intentional - enough to observe patterns without overwhelming. The agent:

• Won't apologize for limited data
• Reports specific observations ("5 of 9 have descriptions")
• Infers conventions from patterns
• Offers concrete drill-down prompts

After the Report

Explore further:

• "Show me issue [ID]" - Full details on any sample
• "Show me 3 parent issues" - See epic structure
• "Show me issues labeled [X]" - Filter by label
• "Run /issue-audit on [other team]" - Compare patterns

Relationship to Other Commands

/linear-calibrate        → Workspace-wide health (30,000 ft view)
         ↓
    ┌────┴────┐
    ↓         ↓
/project-health       /issue-audit
[project]             [team]
(execution health)    (organization patterns) ← THIS COMMAND

• /linear-calibrate flags workspace-level issues
• /project-health checks if a specific project is on track
• /issue-audit helps PM understand how a team works

Part of PM Thought Partner Linear analysis suite