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Atlassian MCP Server

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About

Atlassian's official Remote MCP Server bridges AI assistants to your Atlassian Cloud data. Search and summarize Jira issues and Confluence pages, create and update content, and automate workflows — all from your AI chat with enterprise-grade security and permissions.

Features

  • Remote MCP server hosted at mcp.atlassian.com — no local deployment needed
  • Connects to Jira, Confluence, and Compass Cloud products
  • OAuth 2.1 browser-based authentication with API token support for headless clients
  • Actions respect existing Atlassian project and space-level permissions
  • All traffic encrypted via HTTPS (TLS 1.2+)
  • IP allowlisting honors organization-level rules
  • Audit logging of key actions for compliance
  • Lazy-loaded installation — no Marketplace app required

Use Cases

Developer

Search and summarize Jira issues and Confluence pages directly from an AI assistant

Project manager

Create and update Jira issues using natural language through AI chat

Team lead

Automate workflows like turning meeting notes into tickets or linking documentation to components

DevOps engineer

Query Compass component ownership and relationships from an AI-powered IDE

What This Server Can Do

MCP servers expose three types of capabilities to AI clients. Here's what Atlassian MCP Server supports.

Tools

Supported12 tools

Functions your AI client can call to perform actions — like querying a database, creating a file, or calling an API.

How to use: Tools run automatically when your AI client decides they're needed. Ask your AI assistant to perform a task, and it will invoke the right tool.

Resources

Not available

This server does not expose read-only data resources.

Prompts

Not available

This server does not provide pre-built prompt templates.

For the full list of available tools, resources, and prompts, check the README on GitHub.

Frequently Asked Questions