We lean on Cursor Automation to triage Linear Issues. It was one of the demo examples when the automations feature shipped.
In the docs, it mentions that “When an automation acts on external services, it uses the following identities: … Team scoped automations open pull requests / comment on Slack as cursor”
This seems like the right behaviour
However when it posts comments in Linear, it posts as me (ie the author of the automation).
This confuses my colleagues as they think I am commenting on their issues. To me it would make sense if this comment was also from cursor.
Good catch. You’re right that this is inconsistent — the Identity section currently covers GitHub and Slack, but Linear is missing from the list.
This is a known gap: team-scoped automations running via Linear triggers aren’t correctly picking up the team service account, so they fall back to your personal identity. Our team is aware and working on bringing Linear comments in line with how GitHub and Slack already work.
Unfortunately there’s no workaround for this right now. Once the fix ships, team-scoped automations should post Linear comments as cursor just like they do for GitHub and Slack.