Jira MCP Server

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The Jira MCP server is Atlassian's official Remote MCP Server, giving AI assistants like Claude and Cursor direct, enterprise-grade access to Jira Software project management through natural-language interactions. Powered by Atlassian's Teamwork Graph and hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure, it requires no local process to run — authentication is handled via OAuth 2.1, making it the most secure way to connect AI to Jira in corporate environments. With this MCP server, product managers, engineers, and team leads can ask their AI to create and update Jira issues, transition ticket statuses through workflow stages, search with JQL (Jira Query Language), summarize sprint progress, view open epics and their child issues, retrieve assignee workloads, and bulk-triage backlogs. AI assistants can connect sprints to related Confluence documentation through Atlassian's graph layer, giving richer context for planning and retros. Enterprise customers including AT&T, NVIDIA, and Pfizer use Atlassian's MCP integration in production. Connect from Claude Desktop via Settings > Connectors, or add it to Claude Code with: `claude mcp add --transport http atlassian https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp`. Cursor and Windsurf users add the remote URL to their MCP config file. No install command needed — it's a fully hosted remote MCP server.

Installation

claude mcp add --transport http atlassian https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp

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