jira-cli

A command-line tool for Jira Data Center and Jira Server, self-hosted versions of Jira used inside an organisation. It is not for Jira Cloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Jira with JQL, manage issues, sprints, boards, backlogs, epics, projects, users, filters, comments, worklogs, links, attachments, and batch operations.
Why use it?
It lets an agent work with Jira data from the terminal without relying on manual web-interface steps, while keeping the Data Center and Cloud distinction clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatecannotbealtered/jira-cli/jira-cli
Any agent
npx skills add fatecannotbealtered/jira-cli --skill jira-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatecannotbealtered/jira-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,343 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.03343
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01672
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00334

Measured 2d ago against content hash f287e617d9db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jira-cli 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 2d 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.

skills/jira-cli/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

jira-cli

Jira Data Center CLI for AI agents. It supports self-hosted Jira Data Center / Jira Server style APIs, not Jira Cloud.

# Please install jira-cli and use it for Jira Data Center operations going forward.
# JSON is the default machine format; use --format text only for human-facing output.
npm install -g @fateforge/jira-cli

# Install the matching agent Skill.
npx skills add fatecannotbealtered/jira-cli -y -g

# Login and verify.
jira-cli --format text login
jira-cli doctor

When to use

Use this Skill for:

  • Jira Data Center issue search, read, create, edit, transition, comments, worklogs, links, attachments, assignees, watchers, and votes.
  • Batch issue operations over a set selected by explicit keys or JQL: bulk-create, backlog-move, bulk-assign, bulk-edit, and rank.
  • Jira Data Center sprint, board, backlog, epic, project, user, and saved filter operations.
  • JQL search or any workflow that needs Jira DC data from the terminal.
  • Checking Jira CLI authentication, context, doctor diagnostics, audit behavior, self-update, or changelog.

Do not use this Skill for:

  • Jira Cloud accountId/OAuth workflows.
  • Generic project management advice without a Jira DC operation.
  • Browser-only Jira tasks that require a logged-in web session and no CLI/API call.
  • Administrative Jira configuration outside the authenticated user's normal permissions.

First steps

Before task commands, discover the current binary and environment:

jira-cli reference --compact
jira-cli context --compact
jira-cli doctor --compact

Use reference as the source of truth for commands, flags, output schema, error codes, exit codes, permission tiers, and blast radius. Do not rely on this Skill, README snippets, or --help for drift-prone command details.

Interpret doctor by reading .data.checks[]; relevant checks include config, auth, network, and version. The version check must satisfy metadata.requires.min_version in Skill frontmatter.

JSON contract

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 236 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f287e617d9db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jira-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatecannotbealtered/jira-cli (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,343 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.