A guide and command-line tool for working with Jira through its REST API. Jira is a system teams use to track issues, tasks, bugs, and their progress.

Use it to search with JQL, inspect, create, or update issues, change their status, add comments, list comments, discover fields, and configure Jira authentication.

It avoids handling common Jira actions manually in a browser or writing one-off API requests. It also helps discover the fields and issue types required by a Jira project.

jira — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by microsoft: A guide and command-line tool for working with Jira…

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/microsoft/hve-core/jira

Any agent

npx skills add microsoft/hve-core --skill jira

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/hve-core

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/hve-core/jira.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/hve-core/jira)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/hve-core/jira"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/hve-core/jira.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,771 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00070	$0.03771
Opus 5	$0.00035	$0.01886
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00754
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00377

Measured 4d ago against content hash b1dc295e5f41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jira 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (scripts/jira.py, tests/conftest.py, tests/fuzz_harness.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/skills/project-planning/jira/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jira Skill

Overview

This skill provides a Python CLI for common Jira REST API workflows:

Search with JQL
Get issue details
Create and update issues with JSON payloads
Transition issues by name or ID
Add comments and list existing comments
Discover issue types and required fields for creation

The skill supports Jira Cloud with email plus API token authentication and Jira Server or Data Center with a personal access token.

Use --fields on read commands by default to keep output concise. The script supports dot-notation such as fields.status.name and prints tab-separated output for lists.

Prerequisites

Set the required environment variables before running the script.

Platform	Runtime
Cross-platform	Python 3.11+

Authentication Variables

Variable	When required	Purpose
`JIRA_BASE_URL`	Always	Jira base URL, for example `https://company.atlassian.net`
`JIRA_USER_EMAIL`	Jira Cloud	Account email used for basic authentication
`JIRA_API_TOKEN`	Jira Cloud	API token paired with the Jira Cloud email
`JIRA_PAT`	Jira Server or Data Center	Personal access token used for bearer authentication
`JIRA_CLOUD_TOKEN_MODE`	Jira Cloud optional	`unscoped` (default) or `scoped`
`JIRA_CLOUD_ID`	Scoped Jira Cloud token	Atlassian Cloud resource identifier

Authentication is selected automatically:

If JIRA_PAT is set, the script uses bearer authentication for Jira Server or Data Center.
Otherwise, the script expects JIRA_USER_EMAIL and JIRA_API_TOKEN for Jira Cloud.
Scoped Cloud mode routes only to https://api.atlassian.com/ex/jira/{cloudId}; mixed Cloud and Data Center credentials fail closed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 lines

Files

What ships with it

46 files 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.

4d ago First seen · 310 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A b1dc295e5f41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jira is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/hve-core (1,422 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,771 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 2026-08-30.

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