mcp-jira-stdio

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Jira API integration. Enables reading, writing, and managing Jira issues and projects directly from your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).

Features

• Full Jira Cloud Support - Works with Atlassian Cloud instances
• Jira Server/Data Center - Compatible with self-hosted installations
• 16 Comprehensive Tools - Issue management, project operations, search, and more
• JQL Search - Full JQL query support for finding issues
• Comment Handling - Add comments with visibility controls
• User Management - Search and assign users

Quick Start

The fastest way to add this MCP server to Claude Code:

claude mcp add jira npx mcp-jira-stdio@latest \
  --env JIRA_BASE_URL=https://yourcompany.atlassian.net \
  --env JIRA_EMAIL=your-email@example.com \
  --env JIRA_API_TOKEN=your-api-token

Available Tools

Projects

• jira_get_visible_projects - List all visible projects
• jira_get_project_info - Get project details

Issues

• jira_get_issue - Retrieve issue by key
• jira_search_issues - Search using JQL
• jira_create_issue - Create new issue
• jira_update_issue - Update existing issue
• jira_create_subtask - Create subtask

Comments

• jira_add_comment - Add comment to issue

Metadata & Users

• jira_get_create_meta - Get creation metadata
• jira_get_issue_types - List issue types
• jira_get_users - Search users
• jira_get_priorities - List priorities
• jira_get_statuses - List statuses
• jira_get_custom_fields - List custom fields

My Work

• jira_get_my_issues - Get issues assigned to current user

Links

• GitHub Repository
• npm Package
• Jira API Documentation