atlassian-jira-connector
Facilitates sophisticated interaction between Artificial Intelligence agents and Atlassian Jira instances, enabling automated execution of tasks like issue lifecycle management, work log recording, and sprint governance.
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Jira Integration Module
Leverage your editor environment (Cursor/Claude) to drive Atlassian Jira operations. Perform tasks such as issue instantiation/modification, sprint orchestration, artifact version control, adding annotations/time tracking, and triggering workflow advancements directly.
Core Capabilities
- Issue Tracking: Retrieval, creation, modification, hierarchical dependency mapping, JQL query execution, state advancement.
- Agile Sprints: Inventory of sprints, identification of the active iteration, mass relocation of up to fifty user stories/tasks.
- Team Synergy: Capture of discussion threads, recording billable or non-billable time, establishing relationships between tickets (linking).
- Release Management: Cataloging and detailed inspection of both deployed and upcoming product iterations/versions.
- Output Format: Succinct, machine-readable text structured specifically for consumption by intelligent systems.
Initial Setup Guide
1) Secure Credentials
Generate a Personal Access Token via your Atlassian security settings: https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens.
2) Integration Method
Choose deployment via Docker containerization or as a standalone native executable (communicates via Standard I/O; no network ports required for local execution).
Docker Deployment
{ "mcpServers": { "jira": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "--rm", "-i", "-e", "ATLASSIAN_HOST=https://your-company.atlassian.net", "-e", "ATLASSIAN_EMAIL=your-email@company.com", "-e", "ATLASSIAN_TOKEN=your-api-token", "ghcr.io/nguyenvanduocit/jira-mcp:latest" ] } } }
Local Binary Execution
{ "mcpServers": { "jira": { "command": "/usr/local/bin/jira-mcp", "env": { "ATLASSIAN_HOST": "https://your-company.atlassian.net", "ATLASSIAN_EMAIL": "your-email@company.com", "ATLASSIAN_TOKEN": "your-api-token" } } } }
3) Interactive Examples in Cursor
- "Display all pending tickets assigned to my user profile."
- "Summarize the current backlog items within the active sprint for project ABC."
- "Log a new defect in project ABC: Web browser rendering failure observed on Safari environments."
Parameter Configuration
- ATLASSIAN_HOST: The root URL for your Jira cloud instance (e.g.,
https://your-company.atlassian.net). - ATLASSIAN_EMAIL: The email address associated with your Atlassian account.
- ATLASSIAN_TOKEN: The generated authentication key.
Configuration via local environment file (optional for standalone mode): bash ATLASSIAN_HOST=https://your-company.atlassian.net ATLASSIAN_EMAIL=your-email@company.com ATLASSIAN_TOKEN=your-api-token
Debugging via HTTP Listener (alternate mode): bash jira-mcp -env .env -http_port 3000
Cursor settings to utilize HTTP mode:
{ "mcpServers": { "jira": { "url": "http://localhost:3000/mcp" } } }
Documentation References
- Architectural overview and detailed function specifications: Navigate to
docs/→ Index, Function Signatures
Licensing
This module is distributed under the MIT License; details are available in the LICENSE file.
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