Use issue trackers as control planes for AI agents
Leverage your issue tracker as a central control plane to manage and orchestrate AI agentic work.
Make your issue tracker the control plane.
Instead of managing individual AI coding sessions, map open issues to dedicated agent workspaces. The orchestrator continuously monitors the task board, assigning agents to active tasks until completion.
Symphony maps each Linear issue to an agent workspace, ensuring continuous agent activity for every task.
Transform your issue tracker into a control plane for AI agents. Map open tasks to agent workspaces, allowing continuous, automated execution and reducing the need for direct human supervision.
- An open-source spec for orchestration: Symphony ↗OpenAI · OpenAI News · Apr 26, 2026 · quoted as shared
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- An open-source spec for orchestration: SymphonyOpenAI · OpenAI News · Apr 26, 2026
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