jira-integration

What this skill does

When applied, it prepends a system prompt before your request is sent — no extra calls and no change to how you are billed beyond the added tokens.

---
name: jira-integration
description: Use this skill when retrieving Jira tickets, analyzing requirements, updating ticket status, adding comments, or transitioning issues. Provides Jira API patterns via MCP or direct REST calls.
origin: ECC
---

# 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` (from `uv`), installed via your package manager or the official `uv` installation documentation

**Add to your MCP config** (e.g., `~/.claude.json` → `mcpServers`):

```json
{
  "jira": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["mcp-atlassian==0.21.0"],
    "env": {
      "JIRA_URL": "https://YOUR_ORG.atlassian.net",
      "JIRA_EMAIL": "[email protected]",
      "JIRA_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
    },
    "description": "Jira issue tracking — search, create, update, comment, transition"
  }
}
```

> **Security:** Never hardcode secrets. Prefer setting `JIRA_URL`, `JIRA_EMAIL`, and `JIRA_API_TOKEN` in your system environment (or a secrets manager). Only use the MCP `env` block for local, uncommitted config files.

**To get a Jira API token:**
1. Go to <https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens>
2. Click **Create API token**
3. Copy the token — store it in your environment, never in source code

### Option B: Direct REST API

If MCP is not available, use the Jira REST API v3 directly via `curl` or a helper script.

Use this skill

{
  "model": "gpt-4o-mini",
  "skill": "imp-5d1de3bb-bd1e-4d38-b6a8-a6f6ba9ee0eb",
  "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "…" }]
}

More skills