How to Install the Official Atlassian MCP Server for Claude Code (Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence)

Below are simple instructions to install the official Atlassian Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to access Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence servers from Claude Code.

Instructions to install official Atlassian MCP to Claude Code

1) Install Claude Code following Anthropic's instructions:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

2) Create a .mcp.json file in your project directory where you run Claude Code

3) Copy and paste the following

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Atlassian": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@latest",
        "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse"
      ]
    }
  }
}

4) You can install additional servers by putting a , after the third to last } and adding another specification in the same format as "Atlassian": { after it.

5) Run claude in the directory and the MCP server should be added to your session. No additional install or any other work needed assuming that you have a version of node running that will properly run claude.

6) You may be prompted automatically by claude to visit Atlassian's site and authenticate, then you should be good to go.

7) You can check when running claude on your mcp server connections by using the /mcp command.

Why?

Atlassian announced the release of their official MCP server in May 2025, but it still took me some search gymnastics (Google isn't dead yet!) to figure out a simple way to get in installed in Claude Code.

Many large teams depend on Bitbucket even if Github is the de factor open source Git repository which most LLMs are natively integrating. Even more large companies use JIRA and confluence. They're a bit hesitant to use the unofficial variety of "homegrown" MCP servers floating around of Github, even if they have clearer documentation than Atlassian's official version itself, which until recently told you to run some other sketchy background process locally.

Hope this helps if you found it searching online!

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