Agent skill

Jira Assistant

by tech-leads-club in tech-leads-club/agent-skills

Manage Jira issues via Atlassian MCP — search, create, update, transition status, and handle sprint tasks.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Jira Assistant

skills CLI
$ npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill jira-assistant -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install tech-leads-club/agent-skills jira-assistant --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/tech-leads-club/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/jira-assistant' .claude/skills/jira-assistant && 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
jira-assistant
GitHub stars
7k
Token cost
~2.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
597 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
74
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Manage Jira issues via Atlassian MCP — search, create, update, transition status, and handle sprint tasks.

  • Works in 5 steps: Finding Issues (Always Start Here) → Searching with Specific Criteria → Getting Issue Details → …
  • User says create a Jira ticket
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Configuration, Workflow and Default Task Template, plus 4 more sections
  • Needs PROJECT_KEY

What it does

Jira Assistant is an agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Manage Jira issues via Atlassian MCP — search, create, update, transition status, and handle sprint tasks. Auto-detects workspace configuration. Use when user says "create a Jira ticket", "update my sprint", "check Jira status", "transition this issue", "search Jira", or "move ticket to done". Do NOT use for Confluence pages (use confluence-assistant).

Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `README.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows. It works with Jira, Model Context Protocol and Confluence. The repository describes itself as: The secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents. Extend Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and more with absolute confidence.

When your agent uses it

  • User says create a Jira ticket
  • Update my sprint
  • Check Jira status
  • Transition this issue

Example prompts

  • “create a Jira ticket”
  • “update my sprint”
  • “check Jira status”
  • “/jira-assistant”

Requirements

  • A credential in PROJECT_KEY

Workflow steps

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

  1. Finding Issues (Always Start Here)
  2. Searching with Specific Criteria
  3. Getting Issue Details
  4. Creating Issues
  5. Updating and Transitioning Issues

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6df68d5. 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 (its code samples are markdown and jql).

    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 these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • PROJECT_KEY

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

Context cost

Jira Assistant loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 597 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.3k

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 597 words (~2,253 tokens).

“You are an expert in using Atlassian MCP tools to interact with Jira.”

— opening of SKILL.md by tech-leads-club, Custom licence
name
jira-assistant

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/jira-assistant of tech-leads-club/agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6df68d5

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Atlassian Setupdavekilleen/Dex494—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
MCP Atlassiansundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills663—~433Automated safety check: PassNone
Atlassian MCP ExpertJeffallan/claude-skills12k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Categories

Questions about Jira Assistant

What does Jira Assistant do?

Manage Jira issues via Atlassian MCP — search, create, update, transition status, and handle sprint tasks. Jira Assistant is an agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Manage Jira issues via Atlassian MCP — search, create, update, transition status, and handle sprint tasks.

When should I use Jira Assistant?

Jira Assistant fits situations like: user says create a Jira ticket; update my sprint; check Jira status; transition this issue.

How do I install Jira Assistant in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill jira-assistant -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/jira-assistant in tech-leads-club/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/jira-assistant in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jira Assistant in Codex?

Run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill jira-assistant -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/jira-assistant in tech-leads-club/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/jira-assistant in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jira Assistant 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 tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill jira-assistant -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jira-assistant, .gemini/skills/jira-assistant, .github/skills/jira-assistant and .opencode/skills/jira-assistant in your project.

What does Jira Assistant need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Jira Assistant needs credentials named PROJECT_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in PROJECT_KEY.

Does Jira Assistant 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 Jira Assistant 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 Jira Assistant use?

Jira Assistant 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 Jira Assistant use?

About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9k 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 Jira Assistant?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jira Assistant: Akb Ingest (dnotitia/akb, 162 stars), Investigate To Confluence (testdouble/han, 281 stars), Atlassian Setup (davekilleen/Dex, 494 stars) and MCP Atlassian (sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills, 663 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Jira Assistant?

tech-leads-club (a GitHub organization) maintains it in tech-leads-club/agent-skills, which has 7,045 GitHub stars. The repository holds 74 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: tech-leads-club/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.