MCP Jira Stdio runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 055 installs a week from npm. Last commit 2 Oct 2026.
MCP server for Jira Cloud — issues, search, comments, attachments, transitions.
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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 mcp add mcp-jira-stdio -e 'JIRA_BASE_URL=<JIRA_BASE_URL>' -e 'JIRA_EMAIL=<JIRA_EMAIL>' -e 'JIRA_API_TOKEN=<JIRA_API_TOKEN>' -- npx -y mcp-jira-stdio{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-jira-stdio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-jira-stdio"
],
"env": {
"JIRA_API_TOKEN": "<JIRA_API_TOKEN>",
"JIRA_BASE_URL": "<JIRA_BASE_URL>",
"JIRA_EMAIL": "<JIRA_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.mcp-jira-stdio]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-jira-stdio"]
env = { JIRA_BASE_URL = "<JIRA_BASE_URL>", JIRA_EMAIL = "<JIRA_EMAIL>", JIRA_API_TOKEN = "<JIRA_API_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-jira-stdio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-jira-stdio"
],
"env": {
"JIRA_API_TOKEN": "<JIRA_API_TOKEN>",
"JIRA_BASE_URL": "<JIRA_BASE_URL>",
"JIRA_EMAIL": "<JIRA_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"mcp-jira-stdio": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-jira-stdio"
],
"env": {
"JIRA_API_TOKEN": "<JIRA_API_TOKEN>",
"JIRA_BASE_URL": "<JIRA_BASE_URL>",
"JIRA_EMAIL": "<JIRA_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}Put your own values in place of
<JIRA_BASE_URL> (Jira instance URL, e.g. https://company.atlassian.net), <JIRA_EMAIL> (Email of the Jira account the API token belongs to), <JIRA_API_TOKEN> (Jira API token (id.atlassian.com > Security > API tokens)).
The author’s registry entry marks them as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
MCP_REDACT_SENSITIVE (Set to true to redact sensitive values from logs), LOG_LEVEL (Log verbosity: debug, info, warn or error (default: info)).
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