# External sync
`tix export/import` talks to GitLab through the `glab` CLI and to Linear
through `linear-cli`. If the tool is missing, `tix` fails with a clear,
actionable error. Repeated exports are idempotent: issues are matched by their
`gitlab_id` / `linear_id`, and conflicts resolve in favor of the newer
`updated` timestamp.
`tix import --target speckit` is a local target: it reads a GitHub Spec Kit
project (`.specify/`, `specs/NNN-<feature>/tasks.md`, `.specify/bugs/*`,
`.specify/assessments/*`) with no CLI and no network, creating one parent issue
per feature, one child subissue per task, and one issue per bug or assessment —
all labeled `speckit`. It is idempotent by the source path recorded in each
issue's `files`, so re-running creates only what is new. See
[`../spec-kit-integration.md`](../spec-kit-integration.md).
Imported issues enter through an explicit, reported policy rather than bypassing
review: `tix import --target gitlab --triage-policy entry`. Absent the flag, an
import routes into the inbox only when the project has a `[triage]` section, and a
project without one imports exactly as it did before the inbox existed. See
[triage](triage.md).