colinear

A k9s-style terminal UI that runs Claude Code agents against your issue tracker. Pick issues, dispatch an agent per issue into its own git worktree, and watch a live board of what they're doing — questions answered inline, draft PRs, CI, review state, cost.

It runs on Claude subscription auth (the logged-in claude CLI), works on Linear today behind a provider interface, and never touches your working copy: agents get worktrees, and they only ever open draft PRs.

📖 Read the docs · 🚀 Getting started

Disclaimer: This is an app I find productive and have developed almost blindly with claude. I've done typescript development, but this is far out of my expertise and the code could very well be vibe-coded trash. I don't really care. The goal is to get something out that is productive. I'm also adding features and fixes to it regularly.. while I am putting thought into preventing backwards compatible issues I have no guarantees. Use at your own risk, at this point in time I'm not accepting contributions from the general public, but feel free to open an issue.

Every task is also a searchable, sortable table — same data, same keys, :tasks:

Both frames are coli demo — a fabricated board you can run yourself in thirty seconds.

Try it in thirty seconds

git clone https://github.com/jubrad/colinear && cd colinear
npm install && npm link
coli demo                        # a populated board — no account, no agents, nothing billed

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/jubrad/colinear && cd colinear
npm install && npm link          # builds dist, puts `coli` on PATH
coli init                        # pick `sqlite` to try it with no account, or `linear` for the real thing
npm run doctor                   # claude CLI, gh auth, key, repos
coli                             # `?` for help, `:` to jump between views

Requirements: the claude CLI logged in (leave ANTHROPIC_API_KEY unset) and gh authenticated. A Linear API key too, unless you start with the built-in local tracker.

What it does

• Dispatch — an agent per issue, in a worktree cut from your repo. Triage picks the repo and scopes the work, the work pass implements it and opens a draft PR. Agents never mark a PR ready; that's your keypress.
• Watch — a kanban board and a table view of every task: live duration, tokens, cost, subtask progress, CI and review state, blocked-by chains.
• Steer — answer an agent's questions in a form, message a running agent without attaching, attach to its session and hand it back, cancel, resume, rebase.
• Review — PRs awaiting your review get an assisted pre-review you edit and post deterministically, never by an agent.
• Plan — a read-only planning chat that drafts sub-issues for you to approve.
• Prioritize — :todo pulls reviews, waiting agents, your issues, milestones and projects into one list, ranked by an agent against a policy you can rewrite: reviews within a working day, deadlines, then priority.

Documentation

jubrad.github.io/colinear — every page below, with search and navigation.

Getting started	install, configure, first dispatch
Security & blast radius	what it can touch, what it can't, where your data goes
Demo mode	coli demo — see it working before configuring anything
How dispatch works	triage → work → checks, messaging agents, sessions
Configuration	every option, with defaults
Remote daemon · Docker	run the daemon on a VM or in a container (work in progress)
CLI	coli, init, daemon, gc, contexts
Views	one page per view — :board, :issues, :reviews, …
Architecture	how it works inside, and the gotchas

Status

Used daily by its author against a real Linear workspace; APIs and keybindings still move. Two issue providers today: Linear, and a local sqlite tracker for trying it without an account — the interface and its capability flags are what a third one plugs into.

MIT licensed.