Jira Integration Skill
Retrieve, analyze, and update Jira tickets directly from your AI coding workflow. Supports both MCP-based (recommended) and direct REST API approaches.
When to Activate
- Fetching a Jira ticket to understand requirements
- Extracting testable acceptance criteria from a ticket
- Adding progress comments to a Jira issue
- Transitioning a ticket status (To Do → In Progress → Done)
- Linking merge requests or branches to a Jira issue
- Searching for issues by JQL query
Prerequisites
Option A: MCP Server (Recommended)
Install the mcp-atlassian MCP server. This exposes Jira tools directly to your AI agent.
Requirements:
- Python 3.10+
uvx(fromuv), installed via your package manager or the officialuvinstallation documentation
Add to your MCP config (e.g., ~/.claude.json → mcpServers):
{
"jira": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-atlassian==0.21.0"],
"env": {
"JIRA_URL": "https://YOUR_ORG.atlassian.net",
"JIRA_EMAIL": "your.email@example.com",
"JIRA_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
},
"description": "Jira issue tracking — search, create, update, comment, transition"
}
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