It searches to make sure it isn't a duplicate, writes up the ticket, then submits it.
Because it's a production tool, we want the cheapest possible one without it being too inaccurate. If you used a API etc, you'd end up building what's effectively a MCP-like adapter on top of it anyway so it could communicate in natural language instead of dealing with JSON and such.
Linear's MCP is also very clean and well designed, probably one of their core advantages over, say, Jira. I wouldn't know what the API looks like because the MCP works great.
Read more about mcp tools/resources/prompts.
Hacker News and YC promote it like crazy because they are non technical morons.
The YC founders shaping our society with their dads leading the rounds are turning it into Idiocracy one fundraising round at a time.