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Link the current Claude Code session to a ticket (Linear, Jira, GitHub Issues, or GitHub Pull Requests) and cache its title/status in karma. Use when the user explicitly asks to link, attach, associate, or connect this session to a ticket, issue, or PR — e.g.

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$ npx -y skills add JayantDevkar/claude-code-karma --skill link-ticket-to-session --agent claude-code

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  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/link-ticket-to-session

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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Link the current Claude Code session to a ticket (Linear, Jira, GitHub Issues, or GitHub Pull Requests) and cache its title/status in karma. Use when the user explicitly asks to link, attach, associate, or connect this session to a ticket, issue, or PR — e.g.

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link-ticket-to-session.SKILL.md
name: link-ticket-to-session
description: Link the current Claude Code session to a ticket (Linear, Jira, GitHub Issues, or GitHub Pull Requests) and cache its title/status in karma. Use when the user explicitly asks to link, attach, associate, or connect this session to a ticket, issue, or PR — e.g. "/link-ticket-to-session ABC-123", "link this session to LINEAR-42", "associate this work with issue #15", "attach session to PR octocat/repo#7". Do NOT auto-invoke from passing ticket-key mentions in normal conversation.
argument-hint: <ticket-ref-or-url>
allowed-tools: Bash, mcp__linear, mcp__claude_ai_Linear, mcp__plugin_github_github, mcp__atlassian

You are linking the current Claude Code session (`${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}`) to: **$ARGUMENTS**

Karma is a read-only observer on the user's machine. It stores the link and caches title/status for display, but never writes back to the ticket provider. You fetch metadata via the user's already-configured MCP server.

Karma's API URL comes from `KARMA_API_URL` (set by users on non-default ports/hosts) with `http://localhost:8020` as fallback. Inline `${KARMA_API_URL:-http://localhost:8020}` in **every** curl below — bash variables don't persist across separate Bash tool calls, so a top-of-script assignment would be empty by the time the next curl runs.

Step 1 — Parse $ARGUMENTS

Recognized forms:

| Provider | Short ref | URL forms | |--------------------|---------------------|--------------------------------------------------------| | Linear | `LINEAR-123` | `https://linear.app/.../issue/ABC-123` | | Jira | `PROJ-45` | `https://*.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-45` | | GitHub **Issue** | `owner/repo#42` | `https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/42` | | GitHub **PR** | `owner/repo#42` | `https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/42` |

GitHub issues and pull requests share a single numbering namespace — `owner/repo#42` could be either. **The URL kind (`/issues/` vs `/pull/`) is the only signal**, and karma's backend preserves it, so when you have a URL keep it intact when POSTing (Step 4). For a bare `owner/repo#N` with no URL, default to `/issues/N` — GitHub auto-redirects to `/pull/N` when N is actually a PR, so the link still resolves.

A bare `#N` (no owner/repo) is **not** accepted — always qualify with `owner/repo#N`.

Step 2 — Identify provider and (for GitHub) kind

Set two variables you'll use below:

  • `<provider>` ∈ `linear` | `jira` | `github`
  • For GitHub: `<kind>` ∈ `issue` | `pull_request` (derived from URL path)

For Linear and Jira this collapses to just `<provider>`.

Step 3 — Fetch metadata via MCP (when available)

Pick the right MCP tool for the provider and kind:

| Provider · Kind | MCP tool | |-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | `linear` | Linear MCP — search/fetch issue by key | | `jira` | Atlassian MCP — fetch by key | | `github` · `issue` | `mcp__plugin_github_github__issue_read`, method `get` | | `github` · `pull_request` | `mcp__plugin_github_github__pull_request_read`, method `get` |

Calling the wrong GitHub method silently returns the wrong thing because both shapes look superficially similar — so derive the kind first.

If the relevant MCP isn't installed, **skip this step** and proceed to Step 4 without title/status. Karma will create the link; the title/status fields stay NULL and can be refreshed later via Step 5.

Pull at minimum: `title`, `status` (or state), `url`. **Strip large fields** — karma caps `metadata_json` at 64 KB and a full PR payload easily exceeds that. Specifically drop:

  • GitHub PR: `body`, `commits`, `files`, `reviewers`, `comments`, `labels`,

`requested_reviewers`, `head` / `base` blobs beyond `ref`

  • GitHub issue: `body`, `comments`, `reactions`, `labels`
  • Linear / Jira: `description`, `comments`, `subscribers`, `attachments`

Status semantics by kind

The `status` you cache should reflect *what the provider says now*, not a generic "open/closed". Karma's UI normalizes these to canonical buckets at render time, so faithful provider language is the right input:

  • **Linear**: workflow state name verbatim — e.g. `Backlog`, `In Progress`,

`In Review`, `Done`, `Cancelled` (workspace-defined; don't normalize).

  • **Jira**: workflow state name — e.g. `To Do`, `In Progress`, `In Review`,

`Done`.

  • **GitHub issue**: `open` or `closed`.
  • **GitHub PR**: derive from the flags the PR API returns:

| `state` | `draft` | `merged` | Cache as | |----------|---------|----------|--------------| | `open` | `true` | — | `draft` | | `open` | `false` | — | `open` | | `closed` | — | `true` | `MERGED` | | `closed` | — | `false` | `closed` |

Step 4 — POST the link

The `url` field should be the URL you actually have — `/pull/N` for PRs, `/issues/N` for issues. **Don't rewrite it.** Karma's parser preserves the path segment; the UI uses it to distinguish PRs from issues.

curl -s -X POST "${KARMA_API_URL:-http://localhost:8020}/sessions/${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}/tickets" \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{"ref":"<key>","provider":"<provider>","url":"<url>","source":"slash_command"}'

For GitHub, `<key>` is always `owner/repo#N` regardless of kind — the URL field carries the issue/PR distinction.

Step 5 — PUT the metadata (only if Step 3 succeeded)

curl -s -X PUT "${KARMA_API_URL:-http://localhost:8020}/tickets/<provider>/<key>" \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{"title":"<title>","status":"<status>"}'

For GitHub keys with `/` and `#`, URL-encode the key in the path: `octocat/repo#

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