Do Atlassian allow customers’ MCP Gateways to connect to Atlassian Cloud MCP Server

[Faisal Hasan]

Do Atlassian allow customers’ MCP Gateways to connect to their Atlassian Cloud MCP Server or do they require that agents directly connect to their MCP server?”. We’d ideally like to set up a lightweight MCP Gateway and have that connect to their MCP server rather than giving our users and their agents direct access to the MCP server.

[Mahima_miniOrange]

Yes, you can have a lightweight MCP Gateway between your AI agents and Atlassian’s Cloud MCP Server. The agents don’t necessarily have to connect directly to Atlassian’s MCP Server. The gateway can act as the middle layer, allowing you to manage access and apply your own controls before requests reach Atlassian.

If your main goal is to have better control and visibility over how AI agents access Jira and Confluence, miniOrange AI Agent Governance app can help with this. It acts as a gateway, allowing you to control which AI agents can access your Atlassian data, which projects they can access, and what actions they can perform.

This gives organizations more granular control over who can access Jira through AI, which projects they can access, and what operations they can perform.

Feel free to set up a meeting with me if you’d like to discuss the use case further. Happy to walk you through the solution and explore how it could fit into your MCP setup.

Thanks,
Mahima

[Sean Bourke]

Hey @Faisal Hasan

This is a common use case which we see often - we absolutely support MCP Gateways. The key is determining the approach you want to use for auth - using passthrough OAuth (or XAA) will ensure that permissions and actions always align to the user's existing permissions and are attributable.

Our newer v2 endpoint defers a lot of tool discovery to enable us to provide more tools to agents. For your MCP gateway, you'll require a flat list of tools to make a determination of what's exposed or to pass these through to the MCP client - for this you can use the https://mcp.atlassian.com/v2/mcp?tools=all endpoint, which provides all tools in a flat list (paginated at 50 tools per page).