"Invalid token format" error

[Rohit Agarwal]

Hi,

I am trying to hit https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse endpoint using the API token in Authorization Bearer header. 

I have separate API tokens for Jira & Confluence. 

I keep getting the following "Invalid token format" response error. What is the expected token format?

{
  "error": "invalid_token",
  "error_description": "Invalid token format"
}

The request payload is as follows

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "tools/list",
  "params": {},
  "id": 1
}

I tried using the following headers

• jira-token
• jira-username
• jira-url

The error response has changed to 

{
  "error": "invalid_token",
  "error_description": "Missing or invalid access token"
}

[Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_]

@Rohit Agarwal @Michael Norgren @Toshiro  The MCP endpoint doesn’t accept standard API tokens from Jira or Confluence. It requires a session token obtained through the Rovo Dev CLI, not manually created API keys. You’ll need to authenticate via acli rovodev auth login and use the token stored in your session for authorized requests.

[Michael Norgren]

Hi, @Rohit Agarwal - Were you able to figure this out? I am running into the same issues

[Rohit Agarwal]

Hi @Michael Norgren ,

Unfortunately, there has been no progress made so far.

[Samuel Gatica _ServiceRocket_]

Hi @Rohit Agarwal 

Welcome to the community!

Please check the following:

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Platform-articles/Using-the-Atlassian-Remote-MCP-Server-beta/ba-p/3005104
• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Platform-articles/Atlassian-Remote-MCP-Server-beta-now-available-for-desktop/ba-p/3022084

Best regards

Sam

[Rohit Agarwal]

Hi Sam, 

Thanks for your reply. 

The links you mentioned outline integration of remote mcp server with AI desktop tools or development IDEs. I did go through the links before raising this ticket. 

What I am trying to do is to connect to the remote mcp server either using Postman or a simple python code.

[Toshiro]

Hi, same issue on Python with Claude :

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(

api_key=ANTHROPIC_API

response = client.beta.messages.create(

model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",

max_tokens=1000,

messages=[{

"role": "user",

"content": "Create a Jira user story called TEST test related to an epic called TEST EPIC",

},

],

mcp_servers= [

{

"type": "url",

"url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse",

"name": "Atlassian",

"authorization_token": ATLASSIAN_API_TOKEN,

},

],

betas= ["mcp-client-2025-04-04"],

);

print(response)