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Set up Jira MCP in VS Code

Interact with Jira projects and issues. Create, update, search, and manage issues and sprints from your AI editor.

1

Locate the config file

VS Code reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

.vscode/settings.json → mcp section

Create this file if it does not already exist. For VS Code, this is inside your workspace .vscode/settings.json file under the mcp section.

2

Add the configuration

Add the following to your VS Code config file:

json
{
  "servers": {
    "jira-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "jira-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "JIRA_URL": "YOUR_JIRA_URL",
        "JIRA_EMAIL": "YOUR_JIRA_EMAIL",
        "JIRA_API_TOKEN": "YOUR_JIRA_API_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}
3

Set up environment variables

Jira MCP requires the following environment variables:

JIRA_URLRequired

Jira instance URL

JIRA_EMAILRequired

Jira account email

JIRA_API_TOKENRequired

Jira API token

4

Verify it works

Restart VS Code. Jira MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 10 tools available.

This server adds approximately 5,150 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.

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