How ahmetbarut/jira-mcp works
This is a stdio-based MCP server that exposes Jira Cloud operations to MCP clients. The main workflow is client tool invocation → MCP dispatch and credential loading → a domain handler → Jira API access → formatted MCP content returned to the client. Handlers cover board listing, board-scoped current-user issues, issue details and comments, user lookup, and user/server information. The sampled source confirms direct HTTP for comments and a shared authenticated API helper for other requests; unsampled implementation details are not inferred.
Main entry points: index.ts MCP server · jiraApi.ts Jira API helper · handlers.ts List boards · tools.ts Tool definitions
Components 13
MCP interface
- MCP server
src/index.ts - Tool definitions
src/tools.ts
Jira operations
- List boards
src/handlers.ts - Board issues
src/handlers.ts - Issue details
src/handlers.ts - Add comment
src/handlers.ts - User information
src/handlers.ts - Search users
src/handlers.ts - Server information
src/handlers.ts
Jira integration
- Credential config
src/jiraApi.ts - Jira API helper
src/jiraApi.ts
Other components
- MCP client
- Jira Cloud
Connections 19
- MCP client → MCP server: calls tools
- MCP server → Tool definitions: lists tools
- MCP server → Credential config: loads credentials
- MCP server → List boards: dispatches
- MCP server → Board issues: dispatches
- MCP server → Issue details: dispatches
- MCP server → Add comment: dispatches
- MCP server → User information: dispatches
- MCP server → Search users: dispatches
- MCP server → Server information: dispatches
- List boards → Jira API helper: requests boards
- Board issues → Jira API helper: requests board and issues
- Issue details → Jira API helper: requests issue
- User information → Jira API helper: requests user and server
- Search users → Jira API helper: searches users
- Server information → Jira API helper: requests server info
- Add comment → Jira Cloud: posts comment
- Jira API helper → Jira Cloud: sends API requests
- MCP server → MCP client: returns tool result