Connect AI to Your Jira Projects

Transform how you manage and track your work by connecting Claude, Cursor AI, and other AI assistants directly to your Jira projects, issues, and workflows. Get instant project insights, streamline issue management, and enhance your team collaboration.

What You Can Do

• Ask AI about your projects: "What are the active issues in the DEV project?"
• Get issue insights: "Show me details about PROJ-123 including comments"
• Track project progress: "List all high priority issues assigned to me"
• Manage issue comments: "Add a comment to PROJ-456 about the test results"
• Search across projects: "Find all bugs in progress across my projects"
• Create and update issues: "Create a new bug in the MOBILE project"

Perfect For

• Developers who need quick access to issue details and development context
• Project Managers tracking progress, priorities, and team assignments
• Scrum Masters managing sprints and workflow states
• Team Leads monitoring project health and issue resolution
• QA Engineers tracking bugs and testing status
• Anyone who wants to interact with Jira using natural language

Quick Start

Get up and running in 2 minutes:

1. Get Your Jira Credentials

Generate a Jira API Token:

1. Go to Atlassian API Tokens
2. Click Create API token
3. Give it a name like "AI Assistant"
4. Copy the generated token immediately (you won't see it again!)

2. Try It Instantly

# Set your credentials
export ATLASSIAN_SITE_NAME="your-company"  # for your-company.atlassian.net
export ATLASSIAN_USER_EMAIL="your.email@company.com"
export ATLASSIAN_API_TOKEN="your_api_token"

# List your Jira projects
npx -y @aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-jira get --path "/rest/api/3/project/search"

# Get details about a specific project
npx -y @aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-jira get --path "/rest/api/3/project/DEV"

# Get an issue with JMESPath filtering
npx -y @aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-jira get --path "/rest/api/3/issue/PROJ-123" --jq "{key: key, summary: fields.summary, status: fields.status.name}"

Connect to AI Assistants

For Claude Desktop Users

Add this to your Claude configuration file (~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jira": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-jira"],
      "env": {
        "ATLASSIAN_SITE_NAME": "your-company",
        "ATLASSIAN_USER_EMAIL": "your.email@company.com",
        "ATLASSIAN_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, and you'll see the jira server in the status bar.

For Other AI Assistants

Most AI assistants support MCP. Install the server globally:

npm install -g @aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-jira

Then configure your AI assistant to use the MCP server with STDIO transport.

Alternative: Configuration File

Create ~/.mcp/configs.json for system-wide configuration:

{
  "jira": {
    "environments": {
      "ATLASSIAN_SITE_NAME": "your-company",
      "ATLASSIAN_USER_EMAIL": "your.email@company.com",
      "ATLASSIAN_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token"
    }
  }
}

Alternative config keys: The system also accepts "atlassian-jira", "@aashari/mcp-server-atlassian-jira", or "mcp-server-atlassian-jira" instead of "jira".

Available Tools

This MCP server provides 5 generic tools that can access any Jira API endpoint:

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