What can MCP actually do?

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Ooof, finally found my comment from July 2025 where I shared a list of the actions that the MCP makes available.

Here's an update, as reported back by Github Copilot integrated into VS Code. (My prompt: what are the Atlassian mcp actions available?)

Copilot explained its thinking thusly:

The user is asking about available Atlassian MCP (Model Context Protocol) actions. Looking at the available functions, I can see many functions that start with mcp_atlassian_. Let me list them out for the user.

I should provide a comprehensive list of all the Atlassian MCP tools available, organized by category for clarity.

Here are the available Atlassian MCP actions:

User & Resources

• atlassianUserInfo - Get current user info from Atlassian
• getAccessibleAtlassianResources - Get cloud IDs to construct API calls

Jira Issues

• createJiraIssue - Create a new Jira issue
• getJiraIssue - Get details of a Jira issue by ID or key
• editJiraIssue - Update details of an existing Jira issue
• addCommentToJiraIssue - Add a comment to an issue
• transitionJiraIssue - Transition an issue to a new status
• getTransitionsForJiraIssue - Get available transitions for an issue
• getJiraIssueRemoteIssueLinks - Get remote issue links (e.g., Confluence links)
• searchJiraIssuesUsingJql - Search Jira issues using JQL
• getVisibleJiraProjects - Get projects where user has permissions
• getJiraProjectIssueTypesMetadata - Get issue type metadata for a project
• getJiraIssueTypeMetaWithFields - Get field metadata for an issue type
• lookupJiraAccountId - Lookup account IDs by display name or email

Confluence Pages

• createConfluencePage - Create a new page (regular or live doc)
• updateConfluencePage - Update an existing page or live doc
• getConfluencePage - Get page data including body content (as Markdown)
• getConfluencePageDescendants - Get all child pages in hierarchy
• getPagesInConfluenceSpace - Get all pages within a space
• getConfluenceSpaces - Get spaces from Confluence

Confluence Comments

• createConfluenceFooterComment - Create a footer comment on a page
• createConfluenceInlineComment - Create an inline comment on selected text
• getConfluencePageFooterComments - Get footer comments for a page
• getConfluencePageInlineComments - Get inline comments for a page

Search

• search - Search Jira and Confluence using Rovo Search
• searchConfluenceUsingCql - Search Confluence using CQL
• fetch - Get details by ARI (Atlassian Resource Identifier)

Issues (Generic)

• issues_assigned_to_me - Fetch issues assigned to you
• issues_get_detail - Get detailed info about a specific issue
• issues_add_comment - Add a comment to an issue

All actions require a cloudId parameter (unique identifier for an Atlassian Cloud instance - can be a UUID, site URL, or extracted from Atlassian URLs).

[Paul Pasler]

I recently tried it with Gemini CLI and it worked out great!

In case the capabilities evolve, you can get a list of tools provided by the Rovo MCP server by typing `/mcp list`.