--- title: "Teaching an agent to auto-fix bugs" url: https://daily.dev/posts/teaching-an-agent-to-auto-fix-bugs-iu4hvtr8d source_url: https://linear.app/now/linear-agent-bug-fix type: article source: "Linear" published: 2026-06-12T16:58:52.593Z updated: 2026-06-12T20:20:00.484Z tags: ["automation", "ai-agents"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Teaching an agent to auto-fix bugs **[Linear](https://daily.dev/sources/linear)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An engineer at Linear shares his experience building automations that use the Linear Agent to auto-fix bugs in triage. Two workflows proved effective: cleaning up dead feature flags (near 100% success rate) and patching failing background tasks (about one-third success rate). Key lessons include narrowing the scope of tasks, adding gates that force the agent to prove it understands a problem before attempting a fix, and encoding team conventions in both Linear Skills/Automations and the codebase itself. The author also describes a task-splitting workflow where large ambiguous tasks are broken into well-defined pieces for the agent, while the engineer handles complex parts in parallel. The session-based, multiplayer nature of Linear Agent — where all context stays attached to the issue — is highlighted as a differentiator from editor-centric coding tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How We Cut up to 80% of Engineering “Chores” Using AI Agents in Jira](https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-cut-up-to-80-of-engineering-chores-using-ai-agents-in-jira-fpc7yicjl) · Atlassian · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Now Linear writes the code, too](https://daily.dev/posts/now-linear-writes-the-code-too-xifbg7iwf) · Linear · 17 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/teaching-an-agent-to-auto-fix-bugs-iu4hvtr8d)