Jira CLI

Jira CLI is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by Code-and-Sorts in awesome-copilot-agents.

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Install Jira CLI

Copy Jira CLI into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents/tree/main/skills/jira-cli ~/.claude/skills/jira-cli

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/jira-cli/SKILL.md in Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/jira-cli
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Jira CLI does

Jira CLI interacts with Jira from the command line to create, list, view, edit, and transition issues. Use it to manage tickets, sprints, epics, comments, and work logs.

Jira CLI is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Jira CLI comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, awesome, awesome-list and copilot-instructions.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Jira CLI

Interact with Atlassian Jira from the command line using jira-cli.

When to Use

User asks to create, view, edit, or search Jira issues/tickets
User needs to transition issues through workflow states (To Do → In Progress → Done)
User wants to manage sprints, epics, or boards
User needs to assign issues, add comments, or log work time
User asks about their current tasks or sprint progress

Prerequisites

Install jira-cli: brew install ankitpokhrel/jira-cli/jira-cli (macOS) or download from releases
Set API token: export JIRA_API_TOKEN="your-token"
Initialize: jira init and follow prompts

Issue Commands

List Issues

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Jira CLI

What else does Code-and-Sorts publish alongside Jira CLI?
Jira CLI is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Az CLI, Azure Prices and Calculator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Jira CLI does, and is maintained by Code-and-Sorts in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents page.
How does Jira CLI compare to other Automation skills?
Jira CLI ranks #1264 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Jira CLI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.