# Jira

> A community skill that lets your agent view, create, update and move Jira issues through the jira CLI or Atlassian's MCP server.

Jira is a community skill from Softaworks' agent toolkit (softaworks/agent-toolkit), packaged as a Claude Code plugin. It teaches your agent to work with Jira in plain words: it spots issue keys like PROJ-123, lists and searches tickets, creates and updates issues, moves them through your workflow and checks the current sprint. It isn't made by Atlassian. It drives Jira through the open-source jira CLI or Atlassian's own MCP server, whichever you have set up.

What you can do with it
- View an issue by its key, with its status, assignee, description and comments
- List your tickets, or search with JQL (bugs created this week, unassigned high-priority issues)
- Create bugs, tasks and stories, with multi-line descriptions and acceptance criteria
- Move issues through your workflow, assign them and add comments
- See what's in the active sprint, and add issues to a sprint with the CLI
- Link issues (blocks, relates to, duplicates) with the CLI

How it connects
- It looks for the jira CLI first (github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli). Install it with brew install ankitpokhrel/jira-cli/jira-cli, then run jira init to connect your Jira site.
- With no CLI, it uses the Jira tools of Atlassian's MCP server when your agent has it connected.
- With neither, it walks you through installing the CLI.

How to install it
In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add softaworks/agent-toolkit, then /plugin install jira@agent-toolkit.

Good to know
- It's a community skill, not an Atlassian product.
- It fetches an issue before changing it, shows you the command or tool call first, and asks before any edit, transition or bulk change.
- Linking issues through the MCP route refers to a helper script that isn't in the repository, so link issues with the CLI.

- Type: Plugin
- Made by: softaworks
- Category: Project management
- Formats: Claude plugins
- Version: latest
- Website: https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit
- Source: https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit/tree/HEAD/dist/plugins/jira
- Page: https://pluginboard.ai/plugins/softaworks-jira

## Works with

- Claude
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- OpenClaw

## Install

### Claude

In Claude (web or desktop): Customize → Plugins → Add → Add marketplace, enter softaworks/agent-toolkit, then add jira

### Claude Code

In Claude Code:

```text
/plugin marketplace add softaworks/agent-toolkit
/plugin install jira@agent-toolkit
```

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