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Atlassian MCP: Jira and Confluence for your agent

Atlassian's official hosted MCP server. Sign in with OAuth and agents search, read and create Jira issues and Confluence pages within your existing permissions.

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Finish a change, switch to the browser to find the Jira issue, update its status, then dig through Confluence for the spec: tab-switching eats a surprising share of the day. Atlassian’s official MCP server hands those steps to the agent. It’s a cloud service Atlassian hosts; you connect once with OAuth 2.1 or an API token, and the agent works in Jira, Confluence and other Atlassian products with your account’s permissions.

What it does

  • Products covered: Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket Cloud, Compass, Loom, plus platform data such as Goals, Projects and Teams.
  • Permission groups: tools are grouped as read, write and search (read_jira, write_jira, search_confluence and so on), and admins can toggle each group. delete_jira and manage_jira are off by default.
  • Tools on demand: only the most-used tools are exposed up front and clients discover the rest as needed, so context isn’t flooded. Gateways can request ?tools=all for a flat list.
  • Typical jobs: turn meeting notes or a spec into issues, summarize a Confluence space, check linked pull requests and deployments.

Who it’s for

  • Developers in Cursor or Claude Code who want the agent to look up issues, move them along and leave comments.
  • Project managers and leads who compile Jira progress or draft Confluence status reports.

Setup

Needs an Atlassian Cloud site. In Claude Code, add it, then run /mcp in a session to sign in:

claude mcp add --transport http atlassian https://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp

Other clients just need the server URL https://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp; the README has one-click installs for most of them.

Our take

There are many community Jira and Confluence servers, and sooperset/mcp-atlassian has more stars, but for Atlassian Cloud customers the official one is the safer pick. OAuth sign-in, permissions that follow the user, and org-level admin controls to audit and revoke access are what corporate IT needs before saying yes. The limits come from the same place: it’s Cloud only, so self-managed Server and Data Center sites still need a community server, and JSM tools accept API tokens only. The agent gets write access, so have it list its plan before bulk-creating or moving issues. Licensed Apache-2.0; about 1,100 stars as of 2026-10-06.