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Atlassian MCP Expert

Connect Jira and Confluence through MCP to run JQL/CQL queries, manage tickets, and automate sprint work safely.

AutomationIntermediate★ 11,208⑂ 1,069AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 7, 2026

What it does

  • Guides you through picking and configuring an Atlassian MCP server (official cloud, open-source, or self-hosted) with a ready-to-edit JSON snippet.
  • Helps author JQL for Jira and CQL for Confluence, always probing with maxResults=1 before a full run.
  • Covers OAuth 2.1 / API token / PAT authentication, permission scope verification, rate-limit backoff, pagination, and error recovery.
  • Enforces a MUST / MUST NOT checklist: no hardcoded tokens, confirmation prompts before any production write or bulk edit.

Who it's for

  • Developers and PMs living in Jira/Confluence who want Claude to fetch, triage, and update issues.
  • Platform engineers standing up an Atlassian MCP server for a team and documenting required scopes.
  • Anyone tired of manually turning meeting notes into tickets or issue data into wiki docs.

Example uses

  1. "Show my In Progress issues in the current sprint ordered by priority" → generates and validates the JQL.
  2. "Find pages in the ENG space mentioning 'deployment runbook' and update the steps" → CQL search plus page edit flow.
  3. "Set up the npx mcp-atlassian server with tokens from env vars" → returns the mcpServers config and a scope explanation.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/atlassian-mcp folder from the GitHub repo Jeffallan/claude-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/atlassian-mcp/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/skills/atlassian-mcp ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r claude-skills/skills/atlassian-mcp ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm the references/ folder came along — most of the depth lives there.
  6. Create Atlassian API tokens and export them as JIRA_API_TOKEN and CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN environment variables (never hardcode them).
  7. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "list my open Jira issues" to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT