Agent Jira Skills — Development skill for Claude Code

Jira Skills for Claude Code

Jira Cloud REST API skills for Claude Code CLI. Built for Next-Gen (team-managed) projects.

Table of Contents

• What This Is
• Structure
• Installation
• Setup
• Usage
• Skills
• API Reference
• Next-Gen vs Classic
• Troubleshooting
• Contributing

What This Is

A collection of Claude Code skills for interacting with Jira's REST API. Each skill is a self-contained folder with:

• SKILL.md - Markdown with YAML frontmatter that Claude reads
• scripts/ - Runnable Node.js and Python scripts for that domain

Skills cover: authentication, issues, search, transitions, agile boards, projects, SAFe patterns, and Confluence spaces.

Structure

jira/
├── .env                    # Your credentials (not committed)
├── .env.example            # Template
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
├── run.js                  # Script runner
├── .github/
│   ├── workflows/
│   │   └── ci.yml          # CI checks
│   └── hooks/
│       └── pre-commit      # Local pre-commit hook
├── templates/              # Organization standard templates
│   ├── TEMPLATES.md        # Template documentation
│   ├── epic-template.json  # Epic structure template
│   ├── story-template.json # User Story SAFe template
│   ├── subtask-template.json # Subtask patterns
│   └── python-jira-utils.py  # Reusable Python utilities
├── jira-auth/
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── scripts/
│       ├── test.mjs
│       └── test.py
├── jira-issues/
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── scripts/
│       ├── create-one.mjs
│       ├── create-one.py
│       ├── delete-all.mjs
│       └── delete-all.py
├── jira-search/
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── scripts/
│       ├── check-issues.mjs
│       └── check-issues.py
├── jira-transitions/
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── scripts/
│       ├── workflow-d