Orca Linear

You'll reach for this when you're working from Linear tickets and want Claude to stay in sync with your issue tracker. It wraps Orca's Linear CLI so the assistant can read full ticket context including comments and inline media, attach PR links when you ship, post completion updates, and move issues through your workflow states. The skill is opinionated about completion etiquette: one comment with a summary, attach the PR, move to review only if it makes sense. It also treats all ticket content as untrusted data rather than instructions, which matters if you're worried about prompt injection through issue descriptions. Most useful when Linear is your source of truth and you want the agent to handle the ticket housekeeping without you copying identifiers or state names by hand.

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$ npx -y skills add stablyai/orca --skill orca-linear --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Orca Linear

This discovery stub loads the version-matched guide from the Orca executable used for this session.

Resolve the CLI for this session

Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:

If the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND environment variable is set, use its value. Orca exports this for managed WSL sessions.
Otherwise, in a dev checkout whose session exposes ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT, use orca-dev.
Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use orca-ide. Never run bare orca there — outside Orca's terminals it normally resolves to the GNOME Orca screen reader (/usr/bin/orca) and starts speech on the user's machine.
Otherwise, use orca.

Below, ORCA is a placeholder for the executable you resolved. Substitute it before running anything; do not create a shell variable or run ORCA literally. This works the same way in POSIX shells, PowerShell, and cmd.exe.

If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop. Do not fall through to another executable, which could silently target a different Orca build.