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Official agent skill

Researching Jira Issues

by bitwarden in bitwarden/ai-plugins

A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — "Read PROJ-123", "What's PROJ-123 about?", "Give me context on PROJ-123", "Deep dive…

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Researching Jira Issues

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bitwarden/ai-plugins --skill researching-jira-issues -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bitwarden/ai-plugins researching-jira-issues --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitwarden/ai-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/bitwarden-atlassian-tools/skills/researching-jira-issues .claude/skills/researching-jira-issues && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
researching-jira-issues
GitHub stars
155
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,006 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
35
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — "Read PROJ-123", "What's PROJ-123 about?", "Give me context on PROJ-123", "Deep dive…

  • Works in 6 steps: Fetch the Main Issue → Identify All Linked Issues → Fetch Linked Issues with Depth Control → …
  • The user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — Read PROJ-123
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow and Examples
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Researching Jira Issues is an agent skill from bitwarden/ai-plugins, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Use whenever the user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — "Read PROJ-123", "What's PROJ-123 about?", "Give me context on PROJ-123", "Deep dive PROJ-123", "What's blocking PROJ-123?", "Summarize PROJ-123 and its dependencies", "I need to work on PROJ-123, what should I know?", or any request to understand an issue's purpose, scope, or requirements. Thoroughly researches and synthesizes a Jira issue including all linked issues, sub-tasks, blocked dependencies, and supporting…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `examples/deep_read_workflow.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows. It works with Jira and Confluence. The repository describes itself as: AI plugin marketplace.

When your agent uses it

  • The user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — Read PROJ-123
  • Whats PROJ-123 about?
  • Give me context on PROJ-123
  • Deep dive PROJ-123

Example prompts

  • “Read PROJ-123”
  • “s PROJ-123 about?”
  • “Give me context on PROJ-123”
  • “/researching-jira-issues”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Fetch the Main Issue
  2. Identify All Linked Issues
  3. Fetch Linked Issues with Depth Control
  4. Fetch Linked Confluence Documentation
  5. Handle Failures Gracefully
  6. Synthesize and Present

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0e684b9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Researching Jira Issues loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 141 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,006 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~141
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,006 words (~1,941 tokens).

“Synthesize information, don't concatenate tool outputs. Each step below gathers raw data — the value of this skill is in connecting the dots across issues, docs, and comments into a coherent understanding that a human can act on.”

— opening of SKILL.md by bitwarden, Custom licence
name
researching-jira-issues

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in plugins/bitwarden-atlassian-tools/skills/researching-jira-issues of bitwarden/ai-plugins.

  • SKILL.md
  • examples/deep_read_workflow.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0e684b9

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Researching Jira Issues this skillbitwarden/ai-plugins155—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
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Investigate To Confluencetestdouble/han281—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Atlassian Setupdavekilleen/Dex494—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
MCP Atlassiansundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills663—~433Automated safety check: PassNone

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Questions about Researching Jira Issues

What does Researching Jira Issues do?

A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — "Read PROJ-123", "What's PROJ-123 about?", "Give me context on PROJ-123", "Deep dive…. Researching Jira Issues is an agent skill from bitwarden/ai-plugins, published by the product's own GitHub organization.", or any request to understand an issue's purpose, scope, or requirements.

When should I use Researching Jira Issues?

Researching Jira Issues fits situations like: the user mentions a Jira issue key and wants more than a surface-level lookup — Read PROJ-123; whats PROJ-123 about?; give me context on PROJ-123; deep dive PROJ-123.

How do I install Researching Jira Issues in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bitwarden/ai-plugins --skill researching-jira-issues -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/bitwarden-atlassian-tools/skills/researching-jira-issues in bitwarden/ai-plugins) into .claude/skills/researching-jira-issues in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Researching Jira Issues in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bitwarden/ai-plugins --skill researching-jira-issues -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/bitwarden-atlassian-tools/skills/researching-jira-issues in bitwarden/ai-plugins) into .agents/skills/researching-jira-issues in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Researching Jira Issues in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bitwarden/ai-plugins --skill researching-jira-issues -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/researching-jira-issues, .gemini/skills/researching-jira-issues, .github/skills/researching-jira-issues and .opencode/skills/researching-jira-issues in your project.

What does Researching Jira Issues need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Researching Jira Issues is instructions for the agent only.

Does Researching Jira Issues access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Researching Jira Issues safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Researching Jira Issues use?

Researching Jira Issues has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Researching Jira Issues use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Researching Jira Issues?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Researching Jira Issues: Akb Ingest (dnotitia/akb, 162 stars), Jira Assistant (tech-leads-club/agent-skills, 7k stars), Investigate To Confluence (testdouble/han, 281 stars) and Atlassian Setup (davekilleen/Dex, 494 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Researching Jira Issues?

bitwarden (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in bitwarden/ai-plugins, which has 155 GitHub stars. The repository holds 35 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: bitwarden/ai-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.