Linear Pagination + Filtering

References:

• Pagination: https://linear.app/developers/pagination
• Filtering: https://linear.app/developers/filtering

Cursor pagination

Linear uses opaque forward cursors. Pattern:

query Page($cursor: String, $filter: IssueFilter) {
  issues(first: 50, after: $cursor, filter: $filter, orderBy: updatedAt) {
    pageInfo { hasNextPage endCursor }
    nodes { id }
  }
}

first ranges 1-250. No last/before — Linear is forward-only. To paginate descending, use orderBy with the appropriate direction (e.g. createdAt).

Helper in lib/pagination.ts:

async function* paginateAll<T>(
  fetch: (cursor: string | null) => Promise<{ nodes: T[]; pageInfo: { hasNextPage: boolean; endCursor: string } }>
): AsyncGenerator<T> {
  let cursor: string | null = null;
  while (true) {
    const page = await fetch(cursor);
    yield* page.nodes;
    if (!page.pageInfo.hasNextPage) return;
    cursor = page.pageInfo.endCursor;
  }
}

Filter DSL

Filters are nested JSON trees:

filter: {
  and: [
    { state: { type: { eq: "started" } } },
    { priority: { lte: 2 } },
    { or: [
      { assignee: { isMe: { eq: true } } },
      { team: { key: { eq: "ENG" } } }
    ] },
    { labels: { some: { name: { in: ["bug", "regression"] } } } }
  ]
}

Comparison operators

Op	Strings	Numbers	Booleans	Dates
eq	✓	✓	✓	✓
neq	✓	✓	✓	✓
in / nin	✓	✓	—	—
contains / startsWith	✓	—	—	—
lt / lte / gt / gte	—	✓	—	✓
null	✓	✓	✓	✓

Connection filters

• some: { ... } — at least one related entity matches
• every: { ... } — all related entities match
• none: { ... } — no related entity matches

Common filter recipes

Open issues in current cycle assigned to me:

filter: {
  and: [
    { state: { type: { neq: "completed" } } },
    { cycle: { isActive: { eq: true } } },
    { assignee: { isMe: { eq: true } } }
  ]
}

Issues blocked by something:

filter: { hasRelatedRelations: { eq: true } }

Triage queue for ENG team older than 24h:

filter: {
  and: [
    { team: { key: { eq: "ENG" } } },
    { state: { type: { eq: "triage" } } },
    { createdAt: { lt: "2026-04-29T00:00:00Z" } }
  ]
}

Sorting

orderBy: updatedAt | createdAt | priority | manual. For complex sorts, fetch unsorted and sort client-side (only feasible for small result sets).

Complexity budgeting

Each filter clause adds to query complexity. Reduce by:

• Selecting only needed fields
• Using first: <smaller> on connections within nodes
• Splitting one big query into two parallel smaller ones (Linear allows up to 4 in-flight)