Using the Atlassian Remote MCP Server beta

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We’re excited to share that our Atlassian Remote MCP Server is now available as public beta in approved MCP clients.

If you haven’t yet, please make sure to visit this page to learn about Atlassian’s Remote MCP Server.

Instructions

In products that support remote MCP servers, fill in https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse as the server URL to create a connection.

Setting it up in Claude.ai

Go to https://claude.ai/settings/integrations to manage your Claude integrations.

If you are part of an organization, you may need your administrators to set up the integration before you can use it.

Click "Add integration".

Add our remote MCP server details. Please use https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse as the server URL.

Go to "New Chat" in Claude and click “Connect” in the "Search and Tools" menu.

Select the Atlassian site you would like to access, review permissions and accept if everything looks right. 

Back to "New Chat" in Claude, and select tools to use. 

You are ready to go! Your Claude now has access to your Atlassian site through the tools you've selected. 

Setting it up in desktop applications

Please see instructions here if you are looking to use the MCP server in a desktop application such as your IDE.

Feedback and support

If you have any feedback, suggestions or questions, please visit our support portal here.

[_A9_ William Kennedy]

I love how fast you are all moving here. I left a post-it at team asking "jira mcp server when?" thinking it would be a while!

[Jay Kelner]

> In products that support remote MCP servers

Can you guys add some instructions for configuring this agnostic of which MCP client is being used? MCP is an open protocol and some of us want to use Cursor or other MCP clients :)

Thanks!

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EDIT: as far as I can tell, there is only one product this works with right now which is Claude Teams.

Firstly, many MCP clients like Cursor do not even support authorization with remote MCP servers yet. (authorization was only added to the MCP spec about a month ago).

But secondly if I try to use the mcp-remote community project to try to bridge that feature gap, e.g. to get Cursor connected, the authorization flow fails like so:

The redirect URI is not allowed, the URL is not part of Atlassian whitelisted domains for registered MCP Clients. 
Redirect URI http://127.0.0.1:3334/oauth/callback

This error message raises the question of what redirect URIs are whitelisted by Atlassian, and I suspect there is only one such callback -- the claude.ai callback, i.e. https://claude.ai/connect/atlassian/callback.

If so, that makes it difficult to use this with any product besides Claude Teams.

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EDIT 2:

They've added support for a localhost callback. It works with mcp-remote now. The Atlassian team moves fast. More info over at https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Platform-articles/Atlassian-Remote-MCP-Server-beta-now-available-for-desktop/ba-p/3022084 . 

Well done and thank you Atlassian folks!

[Matthew]

+1 to adding agnostic instructions, and thank you to the teams for launching this!

[Albert Nerikat]

how do i integrate this with n8n?

Update: I was able to successfully integrate n8n and atlassian jira using the GitHub mcp server. Please see the below thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/n8n/s/P12nVSHcQd

[Vaishali Jain]

How to add this mcp server in Claude or github copilot or cline? How do I pass in other parameters required for authentication? 

I need help in configuring Atlassian MCP server  as the server URL in Claude Remote MCP server. Where can I find step by step instructions? 

Thanks

[Qiaochu Yang]

I configured the remote mcp in cursor like this:

 "mcp-atlassian": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse"
] 
}

However, the OAuth flow failed — is it because the remote server’s OAuth app doesn’t allow the redirect URL? I’m curious how this is expected to work for anyone if that’s the case.

The redirect URI is not allowed, the URL is not part of Atlassian whitelisted domains for registered MCP Clients. Redirect URI http://127.0.0.1:3334/oauth/callback

[Michael Irey]

Thanks for providing remote mcp server.

Is this open source?

Can you auth with API key?

[Arthur Silber]

Great work!

Do you have planned adding support for custom fields in issues? Background: most people use dedicated fields, e.g. "Actual Result" and "Expected Result" for bug-tickets, and all MCP integrations right now put everything in the description.

[Prithveesh Goel]

Unable to integrate with Copilot. Can someone share the steps to integrate with copilot?

[Sergio Behrends]

@Kun Chen could you share how to connect to the MCP server with other MCP Clients?

As several others above, the MCP client fails to connect due to lack of token, and seems like standard Basic Auth that works with REST API won't work for MCP.

[Thorsten Kamann]

I haven't the Add more button to add custom integrations. What do I need to do or which plans at Claude support the Atlassian MCP Server?

[Stanislav Ivanov]

Is this only for Claude Enterprise and Team users ..and Max..? 
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11175166-about-custom-integrations-using-remote-mcp

The 'normal' paid users doesn't seem to have this option and adding the MCP server in the conf file doesn't do anything really, says auth. failed, but doesn't come any window to authenticate or so.

[MJ]

Configuration procedure worked for Claude.ai, but could not configure it with Claude code.
Authorization flow did not start after adding server

Atlassian Team: Can you please publish process of configuring the MCP server with Claude code and cursor?

[Jason Schulz]

Came here for the same as many of the above comments. The remote mcp server works great in Claude Desktop and I'd love it in Claude Code and/or other MCP clients.

[Jiquan Ngiam]

Hi! We're building an AI agent that completes task across work apps; supports the most recent OAuth MCP protocols out of the box. It's been working smoothly with the most recent MCP remote servers launched, and we'd love for the Atlassian server to work well with it too.

We're running into the same error "URL is not part of Atlassian whitelisted domains for registered MCP Clients" - how can we get into the whitelisted domains?

Client: https://lutra.ai/mcp 

Thanks!

Jiquan Ngiam
Lutra AI

[Atlas Can]

Really wish this is available to team users and also for external apps.

[parthasarathi.u]

This is how I successfully connected to VS GitHub Copilot. I hope it works for other MCP clients as well.

"mcp": {

  "servers": {

    "atlassian": {

       "url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse",

       "transport": "sse",

       "command": "mcp-atlassian",

       "args": [

           "--jira-url", "https://your-company.atlassian.net",

           "--jira-username", "your.email@company.com",

           "--jira-token", "your_api_token",

           "--confluence-url", "https://your-company.atlassian.net/wiki",

           "--confluence-username", "your.email@company.com",

           "--confluence-token", "your_api_token"
        ],

      "env": {},

      "disabled": false

       }
   }
}

[Kay D.]

On Claude Desktop (Teams Plan) it fails to see any tickets on any project of mine that is JIRA ITSM. Anyone else having the same issue?

[Somil Bhandari]

I got it to work with CursorAI with the following configuration

 "Atlassian MCP": {
"url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse",
"transport": "sse",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-atlassian",
"--jira-url", "https://your-company.atlassian.net",
"--jira-username", "<username>",
"--jira-token", "<token>",
"--confluence-url", "https://your-company.atlassian.net/wiki",
"--confluence-username", "<username>",
"--confluence-token", "<token>"
],
"env": {}
},

`uv` needs to be installed and accessible at the PATH.

[Trucky And]

Those who use below command, was actually using open source mcp-atlassian by https://github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian. Not the official Atlassian Remote MCP one.

 "command": "mcp-atlassian",

[to_hoang_long _ Brian _]

When can this MCP connect to CursorAI?

[Pushkar Choupane]

How do I connect my custom mcp client to this remote-mcp-server of atlassian?
Are there any defined steps for this process?

[Michael Simmons]

Well for the desktop claude you can edit claude_desktop_config.json
And it should look like this. But I don't know the command or the args.

{
"mcpServers": {

"AtlassianRemoteMCPServer": {
"type": "sse",
"url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse",
"command":""
}
}
}

[Ajay _view26_]

This is super cool.. I tried to get the current Sprint summary and it works like a charm 👌

[Dusan Spaic]

Currently MCP is only available for Claude Team & Enterprise plans :( 
What is the best way to stay up to date to your next releases of MCP?