jira-cli by ankitpokhrel
Shares rank 50 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
People recommend this free command-line client for Jira so they can script issue workflows and let AI agents work from their tickets without opening the browser.
People recommend this free command-line client for Jira so they can script issue workflows and let AI agents work from their tickets without opening the browser.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 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
Lets AI agents and skills use Jira
“firing off commands with jira-cli to get flows started by multiple agents watching their issues”
Comment from 4 Jun 2026 in “Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git” “I'm having a good experience with a skill using Jira CLI directly”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “MCP is dead. Long live the CLI” “just install this and have claude write a skill on how to use it.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Give Django your time and money, not your tokens” Makes Jira usable from the terminal
“Once I found the Atlassian-blessed jira "cli" I have actually be fine with using Jira again”
Comment from 7 Oct 2026 in “Docker Agent” “Thankfully, there is a Jira CLI tool”
Comment from 19 Aug 2026 in “Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative” Works well after some tuning
“It's taken a few iterations to dial it in but it works pretty damn well now.”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “MCP is dead. Long live the CLI” “I'm having a good experience with a skill using Jira CLI directly”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “MCP is dead. Long live the CLI”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Once I found the Atlassian-blessed jira "cli" I have actually be fine with using Jira again”
“Thankfully, there is a Jira CLI tool”
“firing off commands with jira-cli to get flows started by multiple agents watching their issues”
“just install this and have claude write a skill on how to use it.”
“I'm having a good experience with a skill using Jira CLI directly”
“It's taken a few iterations to dial it in but it works pretty damn well now.”
“Latest version from 2 momths ago, >4700 stars on GitHub”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.