What does this automation do?
A mention in a channel is written up as a proper issue by an agent, opened in Linear, and the link is posted straight back to the thread.
What can you do with it?
- Catch the report at the moment someone types it
- File it with the thread’s detail rather than one line
- Show the reporter the issue instead of asking them to file one
The Steps
This automation runs in 4 steps:
- When Slack — New Mention
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent ("Bug Writer")
- Then Linear — Create Issue
- Then Slack — Send Channel Message
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Bug Writer" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your product areas, known issues and what a good report contains, remembers the reports it has already filed from this channel, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for teams whose bugs are first reported in a channel and lost there. A mention in a channel is written up as a proper issue by an agent, opened in Linear, and the link is posted straight back to the thread.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "New Mention" from Slack.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Bug Writer".
- Add the action "Create Issue" from Linear.
- Add the action "Send Channel Message" from Slack.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
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