Depending on what you are doing, maybe the jira-cli makes more sense than the MCP. It's open source and seems to work fine at least with Claude Code: https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli
Just installed it and added this line to my Claude config ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
You have access to jira command line tool for projects and issues in jira
Haven't done much testing, but at least Claude can now retrieve issues, update them etc.
claude mcp add --transport sse atlassian https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse
Then relaunch Claude Code and use the /mcp command. You'll be prompted to authenticate (it will launch a browser for you to login) and grant permissions.
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