MCP Jira

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Jira. This integration supports updating Jira dashboards.

Example Usage

Ask your AI assistant to:

📝 Create Jira Tickets - Create Jira tickets right from cursor
📄 Get project info - Fetch project info

Feature Demo

Demo

Quick Start Guide

1. Authentication Setup

First, generate the necessary authentication tokens for Jira:

For Cloud

Go to https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens
Click Create API token, name it
Copy the token

2. Installation

Clone this repo.
Install uv.

IDE Integration

MCP Jira can work with your favorite IDE.

Example: Cursor Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jira": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/Users/PATH/TO/jira/server",
        "run",
        "jira.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "JIRA_API_TOKEN": "XXXX",
        "JIRA_BASE_URL": "XXXX",
        "JIRA_USER_EMAIL": "XXXX",
        "JIRA_USER_ID": "XXXX" 
      }
    },
  }
}

Remarks

This is not an official Atlassian product.