Claude Code: How to set up read-only access for Linear

Linear.app offers an MCP that Claude Code can connect to, to access issue tickets.
Default permissions allow reading and writing to everything, but Claude allows restricting. Here is how.

Set up the MCP connection

1. In Claude Code, run /mcp.
2. Pick "Show unused connectors".
3. Pick "claude.ai Linear".
4. Pick "Authenticate".

Click the link to open in your browser, and confirm the connection.
Note that this will set up a connection with full permissions.

Adjust permissions

1. Visit claude.ai Show archive.org snapshot in your browser.
2. Click your profile name (bottom left), and go to "Settings".
3. Navigate to "Connectors".
4. There, you should see an entry for Linear. Click it.
5. You'll then see a list of tools that Claude uses to access Linear. They are classified as read-only and destructive write/delete tools, each as their own group.
   For each group, there is a control to set permissions for all tools. Select "Blocked" for the write/delete group.