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Atlassian MCP server turns status labels into plaintext

Shakeel Bhamani
December 17, 2025

When using the Atlassian MCP server to update Confluence pages via the updateConfluencePage tool, status macros (created with the /status command in Confluence) are converted to plain text.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a Confluence page with a table containing status labels (e.g., green "accepted", yellow "proposed", red "rejected" using the /status macro)
  2. Use the Atlassian MCP server's updateConfluencePage tool to update the page content
  3. Observe that the colored status tags are replaced with plain text

Expected behavior:
Status macros should be preserved when updating page content, maintaining their colored tag formatting.

Actual behavior:
The /status macro formatting is lost and replaced with plain text (e.g., "ACCEPTED" instead of a green status tag).

Context:
We use ADR (Architecture Decision Records) pages with a Decision Summary table that includes a Status column with colored status tags. When programmatically updating other parts of the ADR via MCP, the status column loses its formatting.

*Disclaimer: I couldn't figure out how to raise an issue in Github (access issue probably) so posting here until redirected hah.

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