Comment by alejo
2 hours ago
For Jira/Confluence, I also struggled with their MCPs. JIRA’s MCPs was hit or miss and Confluence never worked for me.
We don’t use the cloud versions, so not sure if they work better with cloud.
On the other hand, i found some unofficial CLIs for both and they work great.
I wrote a small skill just to give enough detail about how to format Epics, Stories, etc and then some guidance on formatting content and I can get the agent do anything i need with them.
I deal with a ton of different atlassian instances and the most infuriating thing to me about the mcp configuration is that atlassian really thinks you should only have one atlassian instance to auth against. Their mcp auth window takes you to a webpage where you can’t see which thing you are authoring against forcing you to paste the login page url into an incognito window. Pretty half baked implementation.
I noticed that it’s better for some things than others. It’s pretty bad at working with confluence it just eats tokens but if you outlay a roadmap you want created or updated in Jira it’s pretty good at that