Creating a Zephyr API Key

Yshmael Ammonraheem_7w86ph

how do I generate a Zephyr API key for the Zephyr MCP server. I am using cursor to attempt to connect to my Zephyr instance. I have already installed a Zephyr MCP server. When I attempt to connect to Zephr this is what I get from cursor 

 

What you need to do

1. In Jira, open your profile (bottom-left avatar) → Zephyr API keys (or Zephyr Scale → API keys).
2. Generate a new Zephyr Scale API key.
3. In <span>~/.cursor/</span><span>mcp.json</span>, set ZEPHYR_API_KEY to that Zephyr key (not the Jira token).
4. Keep JIRA_USERNAME and JIRA_API_TOKEN as they are — those are for Jira issue linking only.
5. Reload MCP servers in Cursor: Settings → MCP → restart/reload the zephyr-server.

After you update the key

Say “retry Zephyr” and I can run get_folders for project STAF to confirm the connection.

If you share the Zephyr API key (or paste it into <span>mcp.json</span> yourself), I can verify the connection end-to-end. I won’t put secrets in chat unless you explicitly want that.

 

Within Jira, I cannot find any reference to creating a Zephyr API Key.

Jason Krewson

What Zephyr product are you using?

As I think there are different ways to get this depending on that, you could always check their documentation as well, they will have steps on how to generate the API. 

Checking their documentation I found this Create and Manage API Tokens in Zephyr , hopefully its for the right product. 

Hope that helps!