jira-mcp-ai

An MCP server for Jira Cloud: it gives an MCP-capable agent (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or any other client) tools to search, read and — behind an explicit gate — write Jira issues, using your own Atlassian account and API token.

Two things shape the design:

• Writes are gated. Write tools default to describing what they would do instead of doing it. Executing requires both an opt-in configuration and an explicit flag on the call. See docs/THREAT-MODEL.md.

• Jira content is untrusted input. Issue text arrives from whoever filed the ticket. It is labelled as data, never merged into the agent's instructions.

Status: pre-code. The specification in docs/ is complete and normative; the implementation is being built against it. Nothing is published to npm yet, so the registration example below will not resolve until the first release.

Requirements

• Node.js ≥ 22 (env files are read with process.loadEnvFile(), not dotenv)

• A Jira Cloud site and an Atlassian API token

Related MCP server: atlassian-mcp-server

Registration

// .mcp.json / claude mcp add
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jira": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "jira-mcp-ai@0.1.0"],
      "env": {
        "JIRA_SITE": "mycompany",
        "JIRA_EMAIL": "me@example.com",
        "JIRA_API_TOKEN": "…",
        "JIRA_WRITE_MODE": "plan"
      }
    }
  }
}

The version is pinned on purpose: an unpinned npx -y re-resolves to whatever is newest at spawn time, so a fresh publish could start running new code inside an agent session with no review step. Bump the pin once you have read the changelog.

Configuration

Every setting is an environment variable with the JIRA_ prefix. The full table — names, defaults, required-ness, and where credentials may live — is in docs/CONFIGURATION.md; .env.example is a fill-in-the-blanks copy.

Tools

The tool table is generated from the package definitions and inserted here. Until then, docs/TOOLS.md is the catalog: tool names, input and output shapes, packages, and the plan/apply contract for the write tier.

Data handling

What leaves your machine, what is written to disk, what is redacted from logs, and what the write gate does and does not promise are documented in docs/THREAT-MODEL.md. Credential storage and lifecycle are in docs/AUTH.md.

To report a vulnerability, see SECURITY.md.

Development

npm install
npm run check   # typecheck, lint, format, build, test, docs-lint, prod audit

docs/README.md is the index to the specification; docs/ARCHITECTURE.md is the place to start. Contributor conventions, the test taxonomy and the coverage gate are in docs/TESTING.md.

License

MIT.

Jira and Atlassian are trademarks of Atlassian Pty Ltd. This project is an independent, unofficial client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Atlassian.