OpenAI Codex agent – Changelog

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Changelog

OpenAI Codex agent⁠

OpenAI Codex users can now delegate issues directly to the Codex agent without leaving Linear.

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Codex can answer questions about your codebase, fix bugs, or take a first pass at issues in your Triage queue. Assign issues to the Codex agent, and it will use the full issue context, automatically choose the right repo, and start working on a solution.

Codex being mentioned in a comment and asked to fix a bug.

Engineers can fully delegate well-defined issues to Codex, so they can stay focused on more complex projects. Follow Codex's reasoning as it works on the issue or just review the summary when the task finishes. When you’re ready, open the Codex task on web to review the code changes and turn them into a PR.

A screenshot of the agent activity panel in Linear

Codex gives every team engineering-level help — without consuming actual engineering time. Support teams can ask Codex to explain how the code works when triaging bug reports. PMs and designers can use Codex to prototype new ideas, or even handle small coding tasks like updating copy or fixing UI issues.

You can assign multiple issues to Codex and it will work on them in parallel. You'll receive inbox notifications when Codex needs your input or when work is ready for review.

Inbox notification showing that Codex finished the request and that the code is ready for review

To get started, add the Codex agent to your Linear workspace. You'll be asked to connect your ChatGPT account when you delegate an issue to Codex for the first time. You must be on a ChatGPT paid plan and connect your Github account to use Codex. Learn more in our docs.

Workspace owners⁠

Enterprise plans now have a new Workspace owner role, the highest permission level in Linear. Workspace owners have exclusive control over billing, security settings, OAuth app management, audit logs, and workspace exports. This change enables admins to continue to handle everyday management needs while limiting who has access to the most sensitive settings in your Linear workspace. Learn more in the docs.

Initiatives in Google Sheets⁠

Linear's Google Sheets integration can now sync initiatives in addition to projects and issues. Initiatives sync to their own dedicated Google Sheet with properties including owner, teams, description, health, and target dates.

Use this sheet to power external analysis and workflows for high-level planning. To get started, enable the Linear Google Sheets integration from your Linear workspace settings and toggle on Sync initiatives.

  • Agents

    Archiving an agent's only session on an issue will remove that agent as delegated

  • Agents

    Links to agent sessions now unfurl properly in Slack

  • Archive

    Improved the visibility of a toast with the project/initiative link when restoring them from the archive

  • Asks

    Improved notifications to the Slack channel when you turn on auto-creation of Asks on new messages for the channel

  • Command Menu

    Refined keywords for "View workspace owners" and "View workspace admins" actions

  • Customer requests

    Improved styling of synced and sync source badges on customer requests

  • Editor

    Improved inline comments made on diagram code to be shown when the diagram is in preview mode

  • iOS

    Added support for mentioning issues, projects, documents, and initiatives

  • iOS

    Added indicator for new posts in Pulse

  • My Issues

    Made it clearer that board view cannot be used when in focus grouping

  • PR Automation

    Merging a revert PR of a revert PR now marks the issue as completed

  • Pull Requests

    Improved visibility of pull requests in the Recently viewed menu

  • Pulse

    Project and initiative updates now use kebab-case in their URL hashes

  • Recurring Issues

    Recurring issues are now auto-assigned to cycles based on their due date

  • Settings

    The label creation button is no longer disabled when filtering

  • Teams

    Improved team settings changes so that only members of public teams can now change settings unless they are also a workspace admin or owner

  • Time-based Insights

    Opening an issue from a time-based insight graph while holding Command/Control will open it in a new tab

  • Agents

    Fixed the agent session event webhooks payload stripping image attachments

  • Archive

    Checked boxes are now visible for archived projects and initiatives lists

  • Archive

    Open in ... actions now work for archived items

  • Archive

    We no longer show the New update action for archived projects and initiatives

  • Asks

    Users no longer see private Slack channels that they aren't members of in Asks settings in their Linear workspace

  • Command Menu

    Fixed typing in IME mode (e.g., Chinese/Japanese) incorrectly invoking actions mid-composition

  • Comments

    Fixed broken layout on small screens when creating a sub-issue from a comment

  • Customer Requests

    Fixed a lag in the customer dropdown where the Create new customer action label would fall behind while typing

  • Dashboards

    Fixed an issue where the Hide None toggle did not work when segmenting by label groups

  • Editor

    Pasting content copied from a numbered or ordered list into a todo list preserves the todo list's checkbox

  • Editor

    You can now insert an empty line between blocks like images by pressing up or down when the block is selected

  • Figma Plugin

    Fixed the Figma plugin to now surface all teams, not just the first 150 teams

  • Filters

    Fixed a bug where choosing the current date in any date filter showed 0 seconds ago

  • Filters

    Fixed misalignment of some initiative filters when searching for filter options

  • GitHub integration

    We now reconnect pull requests to the GitHub integration if they get stuck updating

  • GitHub integration

    Fixed an incorrect error message that sometimes showed that a reconnect was needed after reconnecting the GitHub integration

  • Inbox

    Fixed an issue where dropdown menus in the project update schedule configuration appearing behind other elements

  • Initiatives

    Fixed the initiative list rows jumping a few pixels when collapsing

  • Inline Comments

    Fixed the inline comments panel flickering and losing focus when new comments are added

  • Inline Comments

    Fixed a bug causing inline comments to disappear when editing and dropping a file into the editor

  • Issues

    Fixed the undo action for removing a specific label from an issue

  • Issues

    Middle clicking on a PR badge in issue lists now opens the PR in a new tab as expected

  • Issues

    Fixed issue titles overlapping triage actions

  • Labels

    Fixed label colors not updating immediately in settings when changing a label group's color

  • List

    Fixed dragging issues to empty groups not working correctly with manual ordering

  • Notifications

    Fixed an issue causing the Mark all notifications as read action to work unreliably

  • Projects

    Fixed initiatives not being properly cleared when removing a template during project creation

  • Projects

    Fixed project group headers grouped by lead to respect user name display preferences

  • Settings

    Fixed an issue where multiple dropdowns were being open at once in triage automation settings

  • Settings

    Fixed branch-specific rules three-dot menu not opening, preventing editing or deleting branch rules

  • Slack

    Disconnecting and reconnecting the Slack integration now correctly updates the enablement date for the integration on the integration settings page

  • Subscriptions

    Fixed correctly subscribing or unsubscribing from issues and all comment threads when selecting or deselecting a user in the issue activity header

  • Team membership

    Guests can no longer be set as owners of private teams

  • Teams

    Fixed an error that prevented viewing and recovering recently deleted teams in workspace settings

  • Templates

    Fixed keyboard navigation in the issue template mode selection modal

  • Tooltips

    The positions of tooltips across the app are now more consistent

  • UI

    Fixed emojis in the emoji picker rendering darker on desktop

  • UI

    Fixed an issue showing "Linear" as the assignee on narrow screens

  • Views

    Fixed an issue where view and display options could not be reset for state-based views

  • Views

    Fixed an issue where view descriptions generated for initiative filters showed initiative IDs instead of initiative names

  • Webhooks

    Fixed a bug where if an app user was added to a team that was later changed to private, webhooks for that private team's data wouldn't fire (for agents, they would never respond).

  • Authentication

    issueUpdate is now allowed with the issues:create scope

  • Custom Views

    The includeSubTeams on updates now works even for custom views with no team ID defined

  • Issue

    We now expose all changes to an issue's workflow state through the Issue.stateHistory field

  • Projects

    Added the ability to create a project from a template via API

  • Webhooks

    Added support for ProjectLabel webhook updates
  • It is now possible to copy the issue ID and title together via the Shift Command Option ' shortcut, or by holding Option while selecting Copy title from the menus
  • You can now use Command/Control C to copy project milestones as a link