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Hi again, @Finesssee!

We are using linear-cli quite a lot here (I'm on the same team as @oliviasculley) :) Here's a new proposed improvement from us:


issues create has no --project flag on master, so a new issue cannot be filed into a project in one call — you have to create it and then issues move it.

The flag was written in c7c7446 (feat(issues): add project flag to create, Jun 26). That commit lives on the finesssee-add-project-flag branch and was tagged v0.3.27, but no PR was ever opened and it never reached master. So it ships in the v0.3.27 binary while being absent from the source everyone builds from.

This cherry-picks that commit onto current master, with original authorship preserved.

What's in it

--project <PROJECT> on issues create, resolved via the existing resolve_project_id helper — the same resolver issues update and issues move already use, so name-or-ID handling and error messages match. Plus the README line and the test from the original commit.

Nothing else on master gains or loses behavior. --project already existed on list, update, and move; only create was missing it.

Deliberately not included

  • The version bump. The original commit bumped 0.3.26 -> 0.3.27, but v0.3.27 is already tagged against a different tree, so reusing it would be wrong and picking the next number is your release call. Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock are untouched here.
  • The main.rs #[cfg(unix)] test gating from the original commit. master already fixed that independently, and more thoroughly. Dropped as redundant.

Verification

macOS arm64:

cargo build --release          # clean
cargo test --release           # 347 passed, 204 passed

Two pre-existing issues in the tree that this PR does not touch and does not fix:

  • cargo fmt --check flags a trailing blank line in initiatives.rs:396 — the same one Fix two GraphQL selections that Linear's schema no longer accepts #46 offers to clean up.
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings reports 4 items_after_test_module errors in comments.rs, documents.rs, templates.rs, views.rs on clippy 1.93. These look like toolchain drift against the 1.97 target in 474f71b rather than anything new.

Happy to rebase or drop the README/test hunks if you'd rather take it narrower.

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  • New Features

    • Issue creation now supports assigning an issue to a project by name or ID.
    • Dry-run output includes the selected project in both text and JSON formats.
    • Updated command examples and help text document the new project option.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded README examples and option references for issue creation, including project and template flags.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming the project option appears in issue creation help.

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The issue creation command now accepts --project, resolves project names or IDs for mutations, preserves raw values during dry runs, and displays project data in dry-run output. Documentation and help coverage were updated.

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Issue project assignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Create command project option
src/commands/issues.rs, tests/cli_tests.rs, README.md
The Create command accepts and forwards --project. Help text, README examples, and integration coverage document the option.
Project resolution and dry-run output
src/commands/issues.rs
Issue creation sets projectId from a resolved project UUID, while dry-run JSON and text output show the supplied project value.

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Issue creation dry runs now display the supplied project value. A crafted value can inject terminal control sequences into a user's terminal, so sanitization is needed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant IssueHandler
  participant create_issue
  participant ProjectResolver
  participant LinearAPI
  CLI->>IssueHandler: Parse --project
  IssueHandler->>create_issue: Pass project value
  create_issue->>ProjectResolver: Resolve project name or ID
  ProjectResolver-->>create_issue: Return project UUID
  create_issue->>LinearAPI: Send mutation with projectId
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One behavior note I found while verifying, which I left as-authored rather than "fixing" inside a cherry-pick — tell me which way you'd prefer.

In --dry-run, the project is not resolved:

if let Some(ref p) = project {
    if dry_run {
        input["projectId"] = json!(p);      // raw string, no API call
    } else {
        let project_id = resolve_project_id(&client, p, &output.cache).await?;
        input["projectId"] = json!(project_id);
    }
}

So a name that does not exist passes dry-run cleanly:

$ linear-cli i create "verify project flag" -t EEK --project "nonexistent-xyz-123" --dry-run
[DRY RUN] Would create issue:
  Title:       verify project flag
  Team:        EEK (c961e841-57cb-42e8-bc8c-a29cb715a4fd)
  Project:     nonexistent-xyz-123

Note team on the line above is resolved to a UUID during dry-run, so the two flags disagree about what dry-run means. Skipping the lookup is defensible if the intent is for dry-run to make no network calls, but that ship has sailed for team, and the asymmetry means dry-run cannot catch the most likely typo.

Happy to add a commit resolving project in dry-run too, for consistency with team — or to leave it exactly as is. Your call; I did not want to silently change someone else's commit.

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println!(" Estimate: {}", e);
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if let Some(ref p) = project {
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printf '%s\n' '--- relevant dry-run code ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- safe_terminal_value references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'safe_terminal_value' src/commands/issues.rs src

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Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-150

Sanitize the project value before terminal output.

--project is user-controlled. The dry-run path writes it directly to the terminal, so terminal escape sequences can alter terminal state. Use safe_terminal_value(p) before println!.

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-                println!("  Project:     {}", p);
+                println!("  Project:     {}", safe_terminal_value(p));
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Hey, thanks for the report. I will try to fix this ASAP.

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