Atlassian AI Toolkit

AI-first SDK, CLI, and MCP server for Atlassian Jira and Confluence

A Bun monorepo containing a typed SDK, an agent-native CLI, and an MCP server for Atlassian Cloud APIs.

Packages

Related MCP server: MCP Atlassian

Install The CLI

Recommended: Standalone Binary

No Node.js, no npm, no PATH conflicts. One file built with Bun.

macOS and Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spenserhale/atlassian-ai-toolkit/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

The script detects your OS + architecture, downloads the matching binary from the latest release, verifies its SHA256, and installs to $HOME/.local/bin/atlassian.

Pin a version with ATLASSIAN_AI_TOOLKIT_VERSION=v0.1.0 or change the install directory with ATLASSIAN_AI_TOOLKIT_INSTALL=$HOME/bin.

Windows: download atlassian-windows-x64.exe from the latest release and put it on your PATH.

Available binaries: atlassian-linux-{x64,arm64}, atlassian-darwin-{x64,arm64}, and atlassian-windows-x64.exe.

Upgrade

Upgrade an installed binary in place from the latest GitHub release (verifies the SHA256 first):

atlassian upgrade            # apply the latest release
atlassian upgrade --dry-run  # only show current vs latest

On Windows, close running instances before upgrading, or re-download the exe from the latest release.

Shell Aliases

For shorter commands, add these aliases to your shell profile (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc):

alias jira='atlassian jira'
alias conf='atlassian confluence'

Then jira get PROJ-123 runs atlassian jira get PROJ-123, and conf get 123456 runs atlassian confluence get 123456.

Configure

Set Atlassian Cloud credentials in your shell:

export ATLASSIAN_SITE_URL="https://your-site.atlassian.net"
export ATLASSIAN_EMAIL="you@example.com"
export ATLASSIAN_API_TOKEN="your-api-token"

Create a scoped API token at https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens.

Attachments

Upload one or more files to a Jira issue. Repeat --file for multiple uploads; the stored filename is the file's basename and the MIME type is inferred from its extension.

# Attach a single file
atlassian jira attach PROJ-123 --file ./screenshot.png

# Attach several files and print the API response
atlassian jira attach PROJ-123 --file ./error.log --file ./har-capture.har --json

The MCP tool jira_add_attachment takes the same paths, plus a files array for content an agent generates inline (filename, content, encoding: utf8 | base64).

Confluence pages take one attachment per call:

atlassian confluence attachment upload --page 123456 --file ./diagram.png

Attachments must be enabled on the site, and uploads are subject to the site's maximum attachment size.

Destructive Actions

Deletes preview by default. Actual deletion requires --force and a matching --confirm value from the fetched resource.

# Preview the permanent Jira delete
atlassian jira delete PROJ-123

# Permanently delete the Jira issue
atlassian jira delete PROJ-123 --force --confirm PROJ-123

# Preview moving a Confluence page to trash
atlassian confluence delete 123456

# Move a Confluence page to trash
atlassian confluence delete 123456 --force --confirm 123456

# Permanently purge an already-trashed Confluence page
atlassian confluence delete 123456 --purge --force --confirm 123456

Getting Started From Source

# Install dependencies
bun install

# Build all packages
bun run build

# Run the CLI
bun run dev:cli -- --help

# Run the MCP server (stdio mode for Claude Desktop)
bun run dev:mcp

The token should be scoped to the smallest set of Jira and Confluence permissions needed for the workflow. Third-party reference implementations live under refs/, which is intentionally gitignored so this repo never vendors or executes unreviewed code with local credentials.

Architecture

packages/sdk/     <-- Types, API client, business logic (foundation)
    ^       ^
    |       |
packages/cli/   packages/mcp/
    (Stricli)    (FastMCP)

Both the CLI and MCP server are thin wrappers over the SDK. If the REST API changes, you update the SDK and both consumers get the fix automatically.

Development

# Run tests across all packages
bun test

# Build a specific package
cd packages/sdk && bun run build

Adding a New API Operation

1. Add types to packages/sdk/src/types.ts

2. Add the client method to packages/sdk/src/client.ts

3. Add a CLI command in packages/cli/src/commands/

4. Add an MCP tool in packages/mcp/src/tools/

Destructive operations must default to a preview path and require an explicit --force flag in the CLI or force: true in MCP tools.