By late last year it was clear that agents were improving rapidly. People were tweeting about them, prototyping with them, and sharing demos of newly derived, end-to-end agentic workflows. It seemed obvious that they were going to fundamentally change the way products are built. Instead of spending most of their time writing code, product teams were poised to reorient themselves around managing context and reviewing outputs. We recognized that Linear was a good fit to become the orchestration la