mcp-jira

A local Model Context Protocol server for safely working with personal Jira Cloud issues through Atlassian CLI (acli). It reuses ACLI's existing OAuth session and does not store Jira credentials.

Capabilities

• List and search issues assigned to the authenticated user.

• Read compact details for issues assigned to the authenticated user.

• Rank possible duplicates among assigned issues without modifying Jira.

• Preview updates before applying them.

• Update summaries, descriptions, and labels; add comments; and transition issues only when they remain assigned to the authenticated ACLI user.

• Require confirmed: true on every mutation tool.

This server deliberately does not create issues, link duplicates, or close duplicate issues in its initial version.

Related MCP server: Jira MCP Server

Requirements

• Node.js 20 or newer.

• Atlassian CLI (acli) authenticated to Jira Cloud.

Setup

npm install
npm run build

Verify ACLI authentication:

C:\Tools\atlassian\acli.exe jira auth status

Set ACLI_PATH only when acli is not available on PATH.

Run the server over stdio:

node dist/src/index.js

OpenCode Configuration

Add a local MCP entry to ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json or a project opencode.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "jira": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "node",
        "C:\\Users\\BEB283\\source\\repos\\mcp-jira\\dist\\src\\index.js"
      ],
      "enabled": true,
      "environment": {
        "ACLI_PATH": "C:\\Tools\\atlassian\\acli.exe"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configure OpenCode permissions so jira_update_issue, jira_add_comment, and jira_transition_issue require approval. The server also requires literal confirmed: true and re-checks assignment immediately before each mutation.

ACLI currently transitions by target status name and does not expose a command for listing available transitions. It also does not expose direct edit flags for priority or due date, so those fields are read-only in this MCP version.

Restart OpenCode after changing its configuration.

Development

npm test
npm run check
npm run build