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Availability
This workflow action is available on Business and Enterprise for Incident Management pricing plans. Contact the Sales Team to upgrade to an account with this action.

Description

Update the assignee of an existing issue in Linear directly from a PagerDuty Incident Workflow. This action enables teams to automatically route Linear issues to the appropriate owner during incident response, ensuring accountability without requiring manual context switching.

Instructions

If you have not done so, follow the instructions to Create an Incident Workflow.
When the instructions prompt you to add actions, select this action.
Enter the following Inputs and click Save.
Continue following instructions to Publish the Workflow.
When the action runs, you will see the Outputs listed below.

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Reference Linear Issue ID
You can dynamically reference the Linear Issue ID from a prior step, such as a Linear: Create Issue action, using the output variable reference syntax.

Inputs

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Field References
Fields with the {+} icon accept Field References, which can be useful for referencing incident data or outputs created in prior workflow steps. To add Field References, click {+}, or enter {{, and select relevant fields. Refer to the Field References article for more information.

Name	Description
Issue ID	The unique identifier of the Linear issue to update. Example: `ENG-123` or a UUID.
Assignee	The email address or Linear user ID of the person to assign the issue to. Example: `[email protected]`.

Outputs

Name	Description
Issue ID	The unique identifier of the updated Linear issue.
Issue URL	A direct link to the updated issue in Linear. Use this in notifications or subsequent steps.