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Connect Linear to Cursor

Give Cursor governed access to Linear’s 82 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Linear to Cursor in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Cursor then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Linear in Runlayer

    Add Linear from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect Cursor to Runlayer

    Runlayer’s CLI installs the Runlayer Plugin natively in Cursor, and admins can roll it out org-wide with Auto Sync plus a Cursor team rule. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Linear’s 82 tools show up in Cursor’s own tool list.

    Cursor setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Linear

    Sign in the way Linear requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Linear from Cursor

    Linear’s approved tools appear in Cursor. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

82 Linear tools in Cursor

Runlayer policy decides which of these Cursor users can call. 17 read data only.

  • Create attachment

    Deprecated fallback for tiny files only.

  • Create attachment from upload

    Link an already-uploaded Linear assetUrl to an existing issue as an attachment.

  • Create initiative label

    Create a new Linear initiative label.

  • Create issue label

    Create a new Linear issue label.

  • Delete attachment

    Delete an attachment by ID

  • Delete comment

    Delete a Linear comment.

  • Delete customer

    Delete a customer in Linear

  • Delete customer need

    Archive a customer need in Linear

See all 82 Linear tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Cursor

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Cursor exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Linear call from Cursor passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Cursor as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Client hooks (available)

    Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can deny a tool call before Cursor runs it, including calls to MCP servers.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Cursor’s model sees it.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Cursor cannot take masked output, so Runlayer can block a tool’s output but not mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

In Cursor

  • Runlayer cannot tell Agents Window sessions apart from regular IDE sessions.
  • The Cursor CLI sends fewer session events than the IDE, but Runlayer’s allow and deny decisions still apply.

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