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The MCP Auth expires too fast

Fabian E_

I'm using the Atlassian MCP in Claude Code, which is very helpful. Unfortunately, after a few minutes in Claude Code, it gets a 401 error, since seemingly the MCP OAuth token expires already after a few minutes. Claude Code cannot renew the token by itself, so i have to do that manually, and then continue work in Claude Code, which is pretty annoying. How can i get a token that is valid for at least multiple hours, or even weeks?

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Pavel Shmelev_0f205u

I have a similar issue: when I'm trying to run two instances of Claude Code that rely on the same Atlassian user OAuth token on different machines it seems they expire instantly after the other MCP gets authenticated.

It would be nice to keep several sessions live so I can perform parallel workflow with JIRA on behalf of the same user but with different instances of Claude Code

Liam Hall_uzx8ni

Here for this too

Dr Valeri Colon (Connect Centric)

@Fabian E_ @Liam Hall @Pavel Shmelev You can’t. The Atlassian MCP server only issues short-lived OAuth tokens in the current preview, and external clients like Claude Code can’t refresh them automatically. After a few minutes the token expires, leading to 401s. Atlassian hasn’t released long-lived or refreshable tokens yet, so manual reauth is the only option until the MCP auth flow is expanded.

Mayhew Park

This!

Jochem Berends

Atlassian MCP is unusable due to the longevity of their auth tokens. Needing to reauthenticate twice a working day is horrible. Why can;t I inject my personal access token into it; that is longlived and properly in control. This is worthless.

Is there any open source MCP for atlassian that has proper access to the API of jira (or confluence) that can use Personal Access API Tokens?

Akhil Bansal

Same issue, I get authentican issue after few mins, I have to disable and re-enable mcp server in cursor editor again and again

Chloé Pilon-vaillancourt

Hello! Here for this too - The OAuth token expires very fast.

Praneeth Nallamalli

how do you re-auth when the session expires? I've been restarting cursor each time

Liam Hall_uzx8ni

twice a day? Try every 30 minutes or so. Sometimes I have to re-authenticate multiple times in the same session. I don't know why the auth can't persist for 7 days or something normal.

Joe Bloggs

This is still hopelessly broken ...

Josh Wolfe_6szam7

I also get this <30 mins. I sometimes wonder if it happens due to subagents interacting with jira vs the main agent so it wants a reauth. sometimes it will be fine for a while, but more often than not, its reauth every 30 mins at most.

Bogdan Plieshka

+1, very annoying, allowing to have multiple sessions and longer session time will make this product much better

Aaron Kirn

Bump!

I need to reauthenticate sometimes once an hour, sometimes once every 10-20 minutes. This morning I authenticated the MCP connection then sent my prompt, 12 minutes later claude code was getting a 401 response and I only had a single terminal session open.

This is basically unusable, I guess I'll just need to build some custom tools to utilize the API.

Jonathan Gittins

Ditched the MCP for Atlassian CLI instead.

Yacine Hannane_m9qmit

SPIKE; Please look at this, we really need to stay authenticated for longer.

Marlen Brunner_alr2pt

I'm using Windsurf and had the same problem. I switched from using the config:
```

{

"atlassian-mcp-server": {

"headers": {},

"serverUrl": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp"

```json
to using the config:
```json

{

"atlassian-mcp-server-remote": {

"command": "npx",

"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse"]

}

}
```
And supposedly it lasts longer. See https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-rovo-mcp-server/docs/getting-started-with-the-atlassian-remote-mcp-server/ -> Architecture and communication.

I'm specifically doing the exact opposite of what is suggested in the by Atlassian. I think the issue is a regression introduced by their new access point https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/mcp vs. their old access point https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse.

Aiden_qkt5ig

Up this. I'm getting auth revoked half way through a task

martinsinn

Please extend this currently the mcp is unusable over a longer period of time.

Fabian E_

Thanks, i learned that the issue is with claude code‘s missing refresh token handling: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5706