Jira Skill

When to use

Use this skill when:

• Reading a Jira ticket for context (bug reports, feature requests)
• Creating new Jira issues from discovered bugs or planned work
• Transitioning ticket status (e.g., "In Progress" → "In Review")
• Writing JQL queries to find related issues
• Linking branches or PRs to Jira tickets

Do NOT use when:

• GitHub Issues (use github-api tool directly)
• Linear or other issue trackers

Procedure: Work with Jira

1. Identify action — Search, read, create, update, or transition a ticket?
2. Use the correct endpoint — See API table below.
3. Execute — Make the API call with required fields.
4. Verify — Confirm the response contains expected data or the ticket was updated.

Tool	Purpose
jira-integration (GET /search/jql)	Search issues with JQL
jira-integration (GET /issue/{key})	Read a specific ticket
jira-integration (POST /issue)	Create a new ticket
jira-integration (PUT /issue/{key})	Update a ticket
jira-integration (GET /issue/{key}/transitions)	Get available status transitions
jira-integration (POST /issue/{key}/transitions)	Transition ticket status
jira-integration (POST /issue/{key}/comment)	Add a comment
jira-integration (GET /project)	List projects
jira-integration (GET /field)	List available fields (check before writing JQL)

Branch-to-ticket detection

Extract ticket IDs from branch names automatically:

feat/DEV-1234/user-notifications  →  DEV-1234
fix/DEV-5678/null-pointer         →  DEV-5678
hotfix/DEV-999/critical-fix       →  DEV-999

Read it with agent-config git:convention ticket — commit-subject § Reading the ticket.

Use git branch --show-current to detect, then fetch the ticket:

jira GET /issue/DEV-1234

JQL patterns

Common queries

# My open tickets
assignee = currentUser() AND status != Done ORDER BY priority DESC

# Tickets in current sprint
project = DEV AND sprint in openSprints() AND assignee = currentUser()

# Recently updated bugs
project = DEV AND type = Bug AND updated >= -7d ORDER BY updated DESC

# Tickets by component
project = DEV AND component = "Import" AND status != Done

Tips

• Always check available fields first: GET /field
• Use currentUser() for the authenticated user
• Use sprint in openSprints() for current sprint
• JQL is case-insensitive for field names but case-sensitive for values

Creating tickets

Required fields

Always check issue types first: GET /issue/createmeta/{project}/issuetypes

Minimum fields for creation:

• project — project key (e.g., DEV)
• issuetype — issue type (Bug, Task, Story, etc.)
• summary — short title

Description format (ADF)

Jira uses Atlassian Document Format for descriptions:

{
  "version": 1,
  "type": "doc",
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "content": [
        { "type": "text", "text": "Description text here." }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Attribution

Always add attribution when creating issues or comments:

Co-authored by Augment Code

With link to https://www.augmentcode.com/?utm_source=atlassian&utm_medium=jira_issue&utm_campaign=jira

Status transitions

Before transitioning, always get available transitions first:

GET /issue/DEV-1234/transitions

Then transition with the correct ID:

POST /issue/DEV-1234/transitions
{ "transition": { "id": "31" } }

Important: Never transition without explicit user permission (see rules/no-commit.md — same principle applies to ticket status changes).

Linking to PRs

When creating PRs, include the Jira ticket in:

• Branch name and PR title: rendered by agent-config git:convention branch and built per commit-subject
• PR description: Link to the ticket

Related

• Skill: bug-analyzer — uses Jira as input source for bug investigation
• Skill: feature-planning — uses Jira for feature context
• Command: /bug-investigate — auto-detects Jira tickets from branch
• Command: /feature-plan — auto-detects Jira tickets from branch
• Rule: no-commit.md — never change ticket status without permission

Output format

1. Jira ticket data presented in structured format
2. Ticket key, summary, status, and relevant fields

Gotcha

• Jira field names are case-sensitive in JQL — status works, Status doesn't.
• Don't create duplicate tickets — always search first with JQL before creating.
• The model tends to forget that Jira description uses ADF (Atlassian Document Format), not Markdown.
• accountId is required for assignee — display name alone doesn't work in the API.

Do NOT

• Do NOT change ticket status without explicit user permission.
• Do NOT create tickets without checking for duplicates.

Auto-trigger keywords

• Jira
• ticket
• issue
• JQL
• workflow transition
• sprint