mcp-jira: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

mcp-jira copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from InfinitIQ-Tech/mcp-jira. It costs 269 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Development instructions for a Python server that lets AI assistants work with Jira, a project-management service, through natural-language requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding Jira features, registering server tools, writing pytest tests, reviewing code structure, or updating documentation.
Why use it?
They give contributors a consistent way to run, test, structure, document, and extend the server without learning the whole project from scratch.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is InfinitIQ-Tech/mcp-jira's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on mcp-jira itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-jira configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to InfinitIQ-Tech/mcp-jira. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InfinitIQ-Tech/mcp-jira/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/InfinitIQ-Tech/mcp-jira

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 269 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 269 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00269 $0.00269
Opus 5 $0.00134 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 9d ago against content hash 922edd9a10de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-jira copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

This is a python based repository using the jira pip package via the Model Context Protocol. This enables users utilizing MCP-enabled LLMS to work with jira in natural language rather than learning the API themselves.

NOTE: There is an ongoing effort to convert from the jira pip package to utilizing the V3 REST API directly.

Code Standards

Development Flow

  • Build/Run: to ensure compatibilty with the end-user, use uv as this is what we recommended.
    • uv run mcp-server-jira
  • Test: to ensure functionality, create and run unit tests using pytest

Key Guidelines

  1. Think like "Uncle Bob" (Robert Martin)
  2. Write clean, modular code that follows the Single Responsibility Principle
  3. Ensure best-practices with MCP servers are followed by referring to /MCPReadme.md
  4. Ensure instructions to agents are updated via @server.list_tools() - this follows a specific schema so don't be creative with keys.
  5. Maintain existing code structure and organization unless otherwise directed
  6. Use dependency injection patterns where appropriate
  7. Write unit tests for new functionality.
  8. Document public APIs and complex logic. Suggest changes to the docs/ folder when appropriate.
  9. Use black, isort, and mypy for code quality
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 22 lines · 269 tokens per session scan A 922edd9a10de

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mcp-jira copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository InfinitIQ-Tech/mcp-jira (7 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 269 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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