Triage Sentry Into Linear

For an engineering lead who wants the backlog to stay honest. One prompt clusters Sentry issues by root cause, matches them against existing Linear tickets, and files the rest with occurrence counts, stack traces, and the right project.

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The grind

Sentry noise outruns the backlog

Here's what doing this by hand looks like today, and why it doesn't scale.

Sentry finds bugs faster than the team files them. The duplicates pile up, the real fixes get lost, and planning argues about which version of the same bug is the real one.
The same root cause gets filed three times under different tickets.
High occurrence issues get no more attention than one offs.
Tickets go in missing the stack trace or the affected user counts.

MewCP collapses all of this into one prompt. Here's what that looks like.

The flow

5 steps · 2 servers

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List the top Sentry issues by occurrence for the week.

Cluster them by root cause, meaning the same stack signature and the same module.

Search Linear for existing issues that match each cluster.

For matches, add the occurrence counts as a comment.

For new clusters, create a Linear issue with the stack and the impact.

The payoff

A backlog that reflects reality

Each Linear issue represents one real bug with an occurrence count. Planning prioritizes by actual impact rather than by whoever filed loudest last sprint.

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Goal: Triage Sentry Into Linear

MCP servers needed (connected through MewCP): Sentry, Linear

Steps:
1. List the top Sentry issues by occurrence for the week.
2. Cluster them by root cause, meaning the same stack signature and the same module.
3. Search Linear for existing issues that match each cluster.
4. For matches, add the occurrence counts as a comment.
5. For new clusters, create a Linear issue with the stack and the impact.

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