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by simonw 391 days ago
OK, I think I've deciphered this.

Bucket is a feature-flagging SaaS

Linear is an issue tracker SaaS

Linear Agents (also known as "app users" according to their developer docs https://linear.app/developers/agents) is a feature of Linear where you can define "agents" which can be added to issues and will then go and do something with those issues. It looks to me like Linear Agents don't even necessarily involve an LLM - they're webhook based, so you can @-tag an "agent" by name which will then trigger a webhook to a third-party somewhere (such as Bucket) who then go ahead and run custom code and interact further with Linear via their API.

(I collect definitions of "AI agents", and this is the first one I've seen in recent years that doesn't necessarily involve any LLM integration at all.)