Jira (Atlassian) MCP Server
Safe default: deep access, cheap, and scopeable.
Widest product coverage of any PM server; the gate is rate quota by plan tier, not access.
Agent-readiness
Excellent overall
Weighted across four pillars
What an agent can do here
Atlassian's official remote MCP server covers Jira, Confluence, JSM, Bitbucket and Compass over OAuth 2.1, respecting existing Atlassian permissions.
- Action depth
- Core write
- Hosting
- Vendor-hosted
- Auth
- OAuth
- Unattended
- Headless-capable
- Blast radius
- Medium
Agents can do the product’s core job — edit the timeline, ship the deploy, update the record.
Connect with a URL — nothing to install.
A long-lived token works, so this can run on a schedule.
Mistakes are recoverable but visible.
What it costs to let an agent act
FreeUnmeteredOpen to all Atlassian Cloud customers; request quotas scale with plan (Standard moderate, Premium/Enterprise up to ~1,000 req/hour).
How the score breaks down
Every factor below is scored by a fixed rubric, not by opinion — so two tools with the same shape always get the same number.
Reach
Can an agent actually do the job?
- MCP serverFirst-party2/2
- Action depthCore write1/1.5
- HostingVendor-hosted1/1
- Fallback pathAPI + CLI0.5/0.5
Cost
What does it cost to let the agent act?
- Plan requiredFree3/3
- Usage meteringUnmetered2/2
Control
Can I let it run unattended?
- Permission scopingGranular scopes1.5/1.5
- Unattended authHeadless-capable1.5/1.5
- Blast radiusMedium1/1.5
- Auth frictionOAuth0.5/0.5
Trust
Will this still work next month?
- MaintainerVendor2/2
- MaturityGenerally available1.5/1.5
- Research confidenceHigh1/1
- FreshnessVerified 2d ago0.5/0.5
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How we know
- Last verified
- 2026-09-29 · 2d ago
- Research confidence
- high
- Maturity
- Generally available
Cloud only — Server/Data Center deployments are not covered.
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