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Phase 4 — Enable Automation & Insights

In this phase, you can enable additional LinearB capabilities that improve visibility, automation, and developer productivity. These features are recommended but not required to start using LinearB d…

Steven Silverstone
Updated by Steven Silverstone

In this phase, you can enable additional LinearB capabilities that improve visibility, automation, and developer productivity.

These features are recommended but not required to start using LinearB dashboards and metrics.

Goal of this phase: Unlock additional insights and workflow automation across your engineering organization.

Estimated time: 15–45 minutes (optional)

Step 1 — Enable LinearB AI Services

LinearB AI services power AI analytics and insights across dashboards and reporting.

When enabled, LinearB can analyze development activity and generate insights such as:

  • AI adoption trends
  • AI-assisted code activity
  • AI impact on delivery metrics

How to Enable AI Services

  1. Go to Settings → AI Services
  2. Enable AI Services
  3. Save the configuration
Recommendation
Enable AI services early so adoption and usage metrics begin collecting data immediately.

Step 2 — Connect AI Coding Tools

LinearB can detect and analyze usage of supported AI development tools. This enables the AI Analytics dashboards and adoption metrics.

Supported AI Tools

  • GitHub Copilot
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Other supported AI development tools

Follow the appropriate configuration guide:

Note
AI tool integrations allow LinearB to attribute AI-assisted activity to commits and pull requests.

Step 3 — Enable WorkerB Notifications

WorkerB integrates LinearB insights directly into collaboration platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.

This allows developers and engineering leaders to receive real-time insights and alerts within their existing workflows.

Common WorkerB Capabilities

  • PR review reminders
  • Delivery insights notifications
  • Engineering productivity insights
  • Team performance summaries

How to Enable WorkerB

  1. Go to Settings → WorkerB
  2. Select your collaboration platform
  3. Authorize the integration
  4. Select channels or teams to receive notifications

WorkerB currently supports:

  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams

Step 4 — Enable gitStream Automation

gitStream allows teams to automate pull request workflows using rules and policies.

This helps reduce manual work and enforce consistent engineering practices.

Common gitStream Use Cases

  • Automatically assign reviewers
  • Apply labels to pull requests
  • Trigger workflow actions based on PR conditions
  • Enforce repository policies

Getting Started with gitStream

  1. Navigate to the gitStream section in LinearB
  2. Enable gitStream for your organization
  3. Create or import automation rules

Learn more:

Enterprise rollout tip
Start with a small number of automation rules and expand gradually once teams become familiar with gitStream.

Verify Phase 4 — Confirm Automation & Insights Are Active

Before moving to the final phase, confirm that automation and insights features are working correctly.

AI Services

  • AI Services is enabled in settings
  • AI analytics dashboards begin populating over time

AI Tool Integrations

  • Configured tools appear in the AI tools usage panel
  • AI usage metrics begin collecting data

WorkerB

  • Notifications appear in Slack or Teams
  • WorkerB integration status shows active

gitStream

  • Rules appear in the gitStream configuration
  • Automation triggers when pull request conditions match rules
What success looks like
  • AI insights appear in dashboards
  • Notifications appear in collaboration tools
  • Automation rules execute successfully

Next Step

You are now ready to perform a final verification of your LinearB setup.

Continue to Phase 5 — Verify Your Setup →

How did we do?

Phase 3 — Organize Teams & Ownership

Phase 5 — Verify Your Setup

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