@enrichlayer/el-linear 1.44.1 → 1.44.2

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@@ -99,6 +99,38 @@ el-linear issues read DEV-123 --format json 2>&1 | python3 -c "import json,sys;
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  `--body` is mutually exclusive with `--field` / `--sections` / `--with` (those extract named parts or extend the JSON envelope; `--body` is the whole thing as text).
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+ #### Citing an issue's stated rationale: `--body` or `--field`, never `--format summary`
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+ **`--format summary` truncates the description.** That is correct for scanning a board and wrong the moment you quote, cite, or reason from what an issue *says*. A research pass once read an issue with `--format summary`, saw a truncated description, and published the opposite of the design position that issue states outright — the fix was one command with a different flag, run twenty minutes too late.
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+ So: the moment a claim is about an issue's **stated rationale** — what a decision claimed at the time, why an approach was chosen, what a spec requires — read `--body` (or `--field <section>` for one section) and quote from that.
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+ ```bash
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+ # ✅ Reasoning from what the issue actually says
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+ el-linear issues read DEV-123 --body 2>&1
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+ el-linear issues read DEV-123 --field "Why we need this" 2>&1
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+ # ❌ Citing a summary — the description you are quoting may be cut off
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+ el-linear issues read DEV-123 --format summary 2>&1
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+ ```
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+ The scope is narrow and worth stating precisely: an issue body is a weak source for *system behavior* — it records what someone intended, not what the code does — but it is the **authoritative** artifact for what a decision claimed at the time. Use it for the second, not the first.
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+ #### An umbrella's status is not delivery evidence
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+ A parent or umbrella issue's own status says nothing reliable about whether the work shipped. Read its children and slices, then read the artifact.
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+ ```bash
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+ el-linear issues related DEV-100 --format summary 2>&1
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+ ```
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+ Neither direction is safe on its own:
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+ - **Canceled does not mean abandoned.** An umbrella is routinely closed as bookkeeping after its slices land — one was reported as "abandoned" in a research document while all six of its children were Done and the code was in production.
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+ - **Done children do not prove delivery either.** A child can be a duplicate, a rename, or an administrative closure.
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+ The tracker is a lead. The **merged MR or the deployed code** is the evidence — go look at it before writing "shipped" or "abandoned".
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  ### Comment reads and full comment bodies
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  When you need a specific comment, or the full text of a long comment, use the
package/package.json CHANGED
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  {
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  "name": "@enrichlayer/el-linear",
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- "version": "1.44.1",
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+ "version": "1.44.2",
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  "description": "A pragmatic CLI for Linear.app — deterministic team/label/member resolution, structured issue validation, configurable term enforcement, and a GraphQL escape hatch.",
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  "main": "dist/main.js",
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  "types": "dist/main.d.ts",