What can MCP actually do?

[#1]

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`.

[Dave Liao]

@Darryl Lee - Can't wait for MCP to interact with my sprints! I'd love to ask it how many of my team sprints are in danger of not totally fulfilling what the teams's wanted to tackle.

And man, what's a project?

And what's an issue? /s