Atlassian acli
Shares rank 48 of 57 command-line tools by recommenders
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.
5 people recommended Atlassian acli in Hacker News comments and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 7 comments.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 3
The record
Recommended in 4 of 12 months
In 4 different threads.
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 4 threadsNeeds 5 or more, not met.
- The biggest thread supplies 40% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 7 of the 8 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cheaper and quicker than MCP
“as it seems.. more efficient/quicker.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Claude Advanced Tool Use” “Much cheaper and works fine”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” Discoverable CLI syntax for Claude
“It has a pretty discoverable cli syntax (at least for Claude”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills” Works well inside agent skills
“skills using `acli` actually work”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Less capable than MCP
“I had trouble getting the CLI to update a certain custom field, which the MCP was able to do.”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “MCP Is Dead” “doesn't cover Confluence and I found it limited compared to the MCP”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills” Agents relearn help output each use
“which my agents have to rediscover how to use from --help every time”
Comment from 23 Aug 2026 in “Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude”
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The four most recommended other command-line tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fzf | 68 | 7 | 5 | 93% | 12 | — | Approved |
| GitHub CLI | 66 | 10 | 45 | 59% | 12 | — | — |
| grep | 53 | 9 | 19 | 74% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Atuin | 51 | 6 | 21 | 71% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Atlassian acliThis page | 5 | 0 | 3 | 63% | 4 | — | — |
Also compared with jq, ImageMagick, sudo and sed.
What people said
7 of the 8 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Much cheaper and works fine”
“which my agents have to rediscover how to use from --help every time”
“I had trouble getting the CLI to update a certain custom field, which the MCP was able to do.”
“It has a pretty discoverable cli syntax (at least for Claude”
“doesn't cover Confluence and I found it limited compared to the MCP”
“skills using `acli` actually work”
“as it seems.. more efficient/quicker.”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.