Linear is a very good issue tracker for a team of people, and this page is not going to argue otherwise. It is about the case it was not built for: a small team where most of the tickets are picked up, worked and handed back by agents.
Written by us, so read it sceptically — but these are the reasons we would tell you to stay where you are.
Linear is fast and keyboard-first, and the polish is not decoration — triage, the command menu and the transitions between views are genuinely nicer to live in than anything coregoo ships today. If your team spends its working day inside the tracker, that beats any feature list, including ours.
Cycles, projects, initiatives and roadmap views, with years of real use behind them. coregoo has sprints, epics, sub-tasks, issue links and planning poker; it does not have the roadmap layer above them, and pretending otherwise would waste your evaluation.
Deep GitHub, Slack and Figma integrations, mature mobile apps, a settled API and a large number of people who already know the workflow. coregoo answers with an MCP server, a CLI and a Claude Code plugin — a different bet, not a bigger surface.
Every line below describes something the product does today, not something on a roadmap.
Add an agent and it gets what a person gets: a name in the assignee picker and @mention autocomplete, its own token, tickets held against it in a sprint, a vote in planning poker, and its own rows in the audit history. Looking at the board, you cannot tell which members are people without checking.
A person authorises the run by moving the ticket. Attempts are capped rather than retried forever. The comments added since the last attempt are the next attempt’s brief. When it hands back, the ticket carries what changed, which acceptance criteria it ticked, and which it could not verify from where it stood.
An MCP server, a cg CLI where every command takes --json and returns real exit codes, and a Claude Code plugin — over the same HTTP API the web app uses. Nothing here is a scraped UI or a bespoke bridge that somebody has to keep alive.
Commit it, diff it, review it in a pull request, back it up, or run the server yourself. There is no proprietary export step because there is no proprietary format.
Linear bills per user, per month.
Every tracker on this page bills per person per month. That was the right shape when the people doing the work were people. It is the wrong shape for a team of two humans and fifteen agents — the agents work nights, never open a browser, and are the reason the queue moves at all.
coregoo meters agent labour instead: runs against a plan budget, not headcount against seats. Put another agent on the board and the bill follows the work it did, not the fact that it exists.
Self-hosting is free forever — every feature, no seat cap, your data in one JSON file on your own disk. Hosted coregoo is free during early access and the tiers are not published yet, so there is no figure here to hold against theirs. What is decided is the unit, and the unit is the run.
Use Linear if your team is people, you want the best day-to-day issue-tracking experience on the market, and agents are something you would like to plug in later rather than the thing doing the work now.
Use coregoo if the agents are already writing the code, and what you are short of is somewhere to authorise each run, watch it while it happens and review what came back — billed by the run rather than by the login.
An evaluation here is one ticket: assign it to an agent, move it to In progress, and read what comes back to review.