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What can MCP actually do?

Darryl Lee

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).

Comments

Paul Pasler [Seibert]

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

Lucas HAMON

Hello @Paul Pasler _Seibert_ !

Could you share what is your settings.json configuration ?

Mine isn't working..

Thank you

Darryl Lee

Hum, I don't think there's anything new here, but Claude Sonnet 4.5 did a better job of sorting and categorizing the available tools:

Here are all the available Atlassian MCP tools:

Authentication & Resources:

mcp_atlassian_atlassianUserInfo - Get current user info
mcp_atlassian_getAccessibleAtlassianResources - Get cloudid and accessible resources

Jira Issues:

mcp_atlassian_createJiraIssue - Create a new Jira issue
mcp_atlassian_getJiraIssue - Get issue by ID or key
mcp_atlassian_editJiraIssue - Update issue details
mcp_atlassian_addCommentToJiraIssue - Add comment to issue
mcp_atlassian_addWorklogToJiraIssue - Add worklog to issue
mcp_atlassian_transitionJiraIssue - Change issue status
mcp_atlassian_getTransitionsForJiraIssue - Get available transitions
mcp_atlassian_getJiraIssueRemoteIssueLinks - Get remote links (Confluence, etc.)

Jira Projects:

mcp_atlassian_getVisibleJiraProjects - Get accessible projects
mcp_atlassian_getJiraProjectIssueTypesMetadata - Get issue types for project
mcp_atlassian_getJiraIssueTypeMetaWithFields - Get field metadata for issue type

Jira Users:

mcp_atlassian_lookupJiraAccountId - Find users by email/name

Confluence Spaces:

mcp_atlassian_getConfluenceSpaces - Get spaces
mcp_atlassian_getPagesInConfluenceSpace - Get all pages in a space

Confluence Pages:

mcp_atlassian_createConfluencePage - Create new page or live doc
mcp_atlassian_getConfluencePage - Get page by ID
mcp_atlassian_updateConfluencePage - Update existing page
mcp_atlassian_getConfluencePageDescendants - Get child pages

Confluence Comments:

mcp_atlassian_createConfluenceFooterComment - Create footer comment
mcp_atlassian_createConfluenceInlineComment - Create inline comment
mcp_atlassian_getConfluencePageFooterComments - Get footer comments
mcp_atlassian_getConfluencePageInlineComments - Get inline comments

Search:

mcp_atlassian_search - Unified Rovo Search across Jira and Confluence
mcp_atlassian_searchJiraIssuesUsingJql - Search Jira using JQL
mcp_atlassian_searchConfluenceUsingCql - Search Confluence using CQL

General:

mcp_atlassian_fetch - Get details by ARI (Atlassian Resource Identifier)

All tools require a cloudId parameter (use getAccessibleAtlassianResources to get it).

Ibby_2rcceg

Adding an update, we now have an official page for these tools. Thanks @Darryl Lee