Atlassian MCP server
Shares rank 9 of 21 MCP servers by recommenders
Lets coding agents read and edit Jira and Confluence, and people find it works well in practice. Critics call it flaky and half-baked, with frequent reauthentication and limited API coverage.
Lets coding agents read and edit Jira and Confluence, and people find it works well in practice. Critics call it flaky and half-baked, with frequent reauthentication and limited API coverage.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 45%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Connects Jira and Confluence to agents
“With the Atlassian MCP server hooked up to the same agent as my code it is fairly trivial to attach a Jira bug to a task”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build” “I've been happily using Atlassian's MCP for this kind of thing just fine”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills” “super easily edit/create confluence pages”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Googleworkspace/CLI” Works well in practice
“I've been happily using Atlassian's MCP for this kind of thing just fine”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills” “in the end found the MCP to work better”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “MCP Is Dead” “Atlassian’s MCP is phenomenal”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Poor quality, broken or half-baked
“There’s not much I can do to debug their awful MCP.”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “I Still Prefer MCP over Skills” “Using the atlassian MCP is dog shit for example”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “I made MCP cheaper in one command” “the same Atlassian MCP server that's flawed”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” - Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “MCP Is Dead; Long Live MCP”
- Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “MCP is dead. Long live the CLI”
Frequent authentication and login problems
“the MCP, which I have to reauthenticate against frequently”
Comment from 23 Aug 2026 in “Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude” “my coworkers keep having problems using the Atlassian MCP”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “MCP is dead. Long live the CLI” “the Atlassian MCP server has weird auth issues”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents”
Other MCP servers people recommend
The four most recommended other MCP servers, 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.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright MCP | 40 | 22 | 65% | 11 | — | — |
| Context7 | 40 | 7 | 85% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Chrome DevTools MCP | 36 | 22 | 62% | 9 | — | — |
| Serena MCP | 18 | 3 | 86% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Atlassian MCP serverThis page | 9 | 11 | 45% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
17 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“When I use the Atlassian CLI vs their MCP server, I tend to see something like half the token burn”
“Atlassian’s MCP is phenomenal”
“the same Atlassian MCP server that's flawed”
“the MCP, which I have to reauthenticate against frequently”
“in the end found the MCP to work better”
“Mcp is limited it doesn't have all api calls described.”
“With the Atlassian MCP server hooked up to the same agent as my code it is fairly trivial to attach a Jira bug to a task”
“The MCP can be hosted on the server side, e.g. Atlassian does this now”
“I've been happily using Atlassian's MCP for this kind of thing just fine”
“There’s not much I can do to debug their awful MCP.”
“broken crap like the Atlassian MCP server”
“tends to timeout with the Atlassian MCP when trying to do updates on large Confluence pages”
“super easily edit/create confluence pages”
“Pretty half baked implementation.”
“my coworkers keep having problems using the Atlassian MCP”
“Using the atlassian MCP is dog shit for example”
“the Atlassian MCP server has weird auth issues”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.