# Atlassian acli

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/acli/

5 people recommended Atlassian acli in Hacker News comments and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Atlassian's command-line tool for Jira that people find discoverable and cheaper than MCP for agents. Critics note gaps in Confluence coverage and fewer capabilities than MCP.

Summary written by Claude from 7 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheaper and quicker than MCP (2 comments in the sample): "as it seems.. more efficient/quicker." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051786)) "Much cheaper and works fine" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559385))
- Discoverable CLI syntax for Claude (1 comment in the sample): "It has a pretty discoverable cli syntax (at least for Claude" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715587))
- Works well inside agent skills (1 comment in the sample): "skills using `acli` actually work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713400))

## What people warn about

- Less capable than MCP (2 comments in the sample): "I had trouble getting the CLI to update a certain custom field, which the MCP was able to do." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337315)) "doesn't cover Confluence and I found it limited compared to the MCP" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715373))
- Agents relearn help output each use (1 comment in the sample): "which my agents have to rediscover how to use from --help every time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405059))

## Other command-line tools people recommend

- [fzf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fzf/): 68 recommend, 7 mixed, 5 criticize
- [GitHub CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-cli/): 66 recommend, 10 mixed, 45 criticize
- [grep](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grep/): 53 recommend, 9 mixed, 19 criticize
- [Atuin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atuin/): 51 recommend, 6 mixed, 21 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Atlassian acli", https://hackerapproved.com/p/acli/ (5 recommend, 0 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.