Auto-Export PRDs to Linear and Jira: A Setup Guide

Exporting a PRD to Linear or Jira with Scriptonia takes one click after a 5-minute setup. Each user story becomes a ticket; acceptance criteria become a description checklist; the PRD is linked as a reference. This eliminates 20 to 30 minutes of copy-paste work per PRD and ensures acceptance criteria reach engineering exactly as written, not paraphrased in a ticket summary.

What gets exported and what doesn't

PRD section	Linear export	Jira export
User stories	One Issue per story (title = story text)	One Story per user story
Acceptance criteria	Checklist items in Issue description	Sub-tasks or description checklist
Success metrics	Linked in Issue description as reference	Linked in Epic description
Edge cases	Not exported by default (can enable)	Not exported by default
PRD link	Included in every Issue description	Included in every Story description
Objective	Used as Epic/Project description	Used as Epic description

Linear-specific setup

In the Scriptonia integration settings for Linear, configure:

• Default team: The Linear team where issues are created. Can be overridden per-export.
• Default project: Optional. If set, issues are automatically added to this project.
• Cycle assignment: Optional. If enabled, exported issues are added to the current cycle.
• Label: Default label applied to all exported issues (recommended: "from-prd"). Makes it easy to filter and track PRD-originated tickets.
• Status: Default status for exported issues (recommended: "Backlog", let the engineering lead triage).

Jira-specific setup

In the Scriptonia integration settings for Jira, configure:

• Default project: The Jira project key (e.g., PROD) where issues are created.
• Issue type mapping: Map PRD user stories to Jira issue types. Recommended: objective → Epic, user stories → Story, acceptance criteria → Sub-tasks (or inline checklist if Sub-tasks create too much noise).
• Component: Optional. Assign a default component to exported issues.
• Label: Apply a label to distinguish PRD-exported tickets (recommended: "scriptonia-prd").

What to do before you export

The quality of the export is determined by the quality of the PRD. Before exporting, verify three things in the generated PRD:

1. User stories are specific. "As a PM with a rough idea..." is specific. "As a user..." is not and will produce a vague ticket title that engineers will rename.
2. Acceptance criteria are testable. Each criterion should start with "Given..." and end with an observable outcome. Criteria that say "the feature works as expected" should be replaced before export.
3. Story point estimates are reasonable. Scriptonia estimates story points based on complexity signals in the PRD. Review these, the estimate is a starting point for engineering refinement, not a commitment.

The time savings in practice

Task	Manual copy-paste	Scriptonia export
Create tickets from user stories	5 to 8 min (per PRD with 5 stories)	30 seconds
Add acceptance criteria to tickets	10 to 15 min	Included in export
Link PRD reference to tickets	3 to 5 min	Included in export
Apply labels and project	2 to 3 min	Configured once; automatic
Total per PRD	20 to 31 min	30 seconds

For a PM generating 4 PRDs per week, the export automation saves approximately 80 to 120 minutes per week (or 65 to 100 hours per year) in manual ticket creation. That time goes back to product thinking, customer conversations, and the work that actually moves the needle.