Allow image attachments when creating Jira issues via MCP

[AnToine van Maarle]

We are currently using the Atlassian Rovo MCP integration from within VS Code (Codex/Copilot style workflow) to create Jira tickets directly from chat.

One important limitation we are running into is the inability to attach screenshots or images to newly created issues through MCP tools.

For development and support workflows, screenshots are often essential. A typical use case is:

• user pastes a screenshot into the VS Code chat

• AI creates a Jira issue

• screenshot is automatically uploaded as an attachment and referenced in the description/comment

At the moment, it seems MCP only supports text-based issue creation/comments, without attachment upload support.

It would be very valuable if the Atlassian MCP server could support:

• attachment uploads

• pasted clipboard images

• multipart/form-data handling

• an addAttachmentToIssue or similar MCP tool

• embedding uploaded images into Jira descriptions/comments

This would significantly improve AI-assisted bug reporting and developer workflows.

Is this already on the roadmap?

[Shannon Hicks]

If I could upvote this 1000x I would.

[Valentin Bayard]

Same thing from Claude Cowork.

I would add that editing a description that contains an image seems to always break the image.

From Claude:

"the embedded image's markdown got re-encoded oddly on this round-trip — the blob URL is now doubly-nested (type=external wrapping the original type=file URL) rather than the clean reference it was before. That's the Jira API's markdown serialization doing something unexpected when I passed the image markdown back in a contentFormat: "markdown" edit, not something I did to the content itself"