Jira Cloud MCP Server

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Jira Cloud runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 112 installs a week from npm. Last commit 31 Aug 2026.

MCP server for Jira Cloud — manage issues, sprints, boards, filters, and custom fields

Installs per day peak 264 · avg 32 · -6% w/w

a month agotoday

112

Installs / week

npm · @aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp

Stars

7 open issues

31 Aug 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Jira Cloud every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add jira-cloud -- npx -y @aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jira-cloud": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.jira-cloud]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jira-cloud": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jira-cloud": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: JIRA_API_TOKEN (Jira API token (generate at https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens)), JIRA_EMAIL (Atlassian account email address), JIRA_HOST (Jira instance URL (e.g., https://your-team.atlassian.net)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Jira Cloud — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Jira Cloud?

Jira Cloud runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp was installed 112 times last week.

How do I connect Jira Cloud?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Jira Cloud?

The npm package @aaronsb/jira-cloud-mcp was installed 112 times in the last week. Week over week that is -6%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Jira Cloud open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 4 stars on GitHub and 7 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.