Atlassian MCP server in Visual Studio is dead after a password change.

[Lev Pertsov]

I recently changed my Atlassian password and my Atlassian MCP sever is not working anymore in Visual Studio 2026. It just silently fails when I try to Authenticate. Tried removing and adding it back, clearing copilot and identiity cache, restarted Visual studio 10 times, nothing I tried helps. 

[Marc -Devoteam-]

HI @Lev Pertsov 

Welcome to the community.

As mentioned by @marc -Collabello--Phase Locked- you need a new API key.

Authentication in MCP is don on user account email and token, this token you created is in your Account settings

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

Most likely you need to generate a new API key and add the new key to the MCP server setup.

[Lev Pertsov]

my server config doesn't contain an api key. It worked perfectly fine until I changed my password, now it just silently fails instead of re-authenticating me.