Jira MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Jira integration. This server provides tools for interacting with Jira, including creating, reading, and updating issues.

Features

• Issue Management: Create, read, update, and transition issues
• Search: Use JQL to search for issues
• Comments: Add comments to issues
• Resources: Access metadata about projects, issue types, and priorities
• Prompts: Templates for common Jira workflows

Installation

pip install mcp-jira

Configuration

Set the following environment variables:

export JIRA_BASE_URL="https://your-instance.atlassian.net"
export JIRA_USERNAME="your_email@example.com"
export JIRA_API_TOKEN="your_api_token"

You can get an API token from: https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens

Usage

Start the server:

mcp-jira

Using with Claude Desktop

Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json file:

"mcp-jira": {
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": [
    "mcp-jira"
  ],
  "env": {
    "JIRA_BASE_URL": "https://your-instance.atlassian.net",
    "JIRA_USERNAME": "your_email@example.com",
    "JIRA_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token"
  }
}

Replace the environment variables with your actual Jira API credentials.

Available Tools

• get_issue: Get details of a specific Jira issue
• search_issues: Search for Jira issues using JQL
• create_issue: Create a new Jira issue
• update_issue: Update an existing Jira issue
• add_comment: Add a comment to a Jira issue
• transition_issue: Change the status of a Jira issue

Available Resources

• jira://projects: List of all Jira projects
• jira://issuetypes: List of all issue types
• jira://priorities: List of all priorities

Available Prompts

• create_bug: Template for creating a bug report
• jql_search: Template for creating JQL search queries

Version

0.0.1