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atlassian-mcp

Integrates with Atlassian products to manage project tracking and documentation via MCP protocol. Use when querying Jira issues with JQL filters, creating and updating tickets with custom fields, searching or editing Confluence pages with CQL, managing sprints and backlogs, setting up MCP server authentication, syncing documentation, or debugging Atlassian API integrations.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured skill body: executable quick-start examples, a validated multi-step workflow, and exemplary progressive disclosure through a conditionally-loaded reference table. The remaining gaps are minor — some repeated validation advice, a bullets list duplicating the frontmatter triggers, and error-recovery guidance that names the loop without showing it.

Suggestions

State the "validate with maxResults=1 before full execution" rule once (e.g., in the workflow or constraints) and remove the repetitions in the JQL sample comments and the MUST DO list.

Trim or replace the "When to Use This Skill" bullet list, which duplicates the frontmatter description's triggers, with content unique to the body (e.g., a decision pointer into the reference table).

Add a short error-recovery snippet (rate-limit backoff or network retry) or a direct pointer to the relevant reference section so the workflow's error-recovery step is concrete rather than named.

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Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient — a compact workflow, tight example blocks, and scannable MUST DO / MUST NOT lists with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows. Not a 5 because of redundancy: the "validate with maxResults=1 first" advice is repeated three times (workflow step 3, the JQL sample comments, and the MUST DO list), and the "When to Use This Skill" bullets largely restate the frontmatter triggers.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is mostly executable: copy-paste-ready JQL and CQL samples, a complete MCP server JSON config with env-var placeholders, a security note on secrets, and concrete parameters ("50-100 items per page", "maxResults=1 probe"). Not a 5 because a few directives remain high-level ("Handle rate limits with exponential backoff", "Implement error recovery for network failures") without a snippet or pointer to a specific reference section for the common failure cases.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 6-step Core Workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints before risky operations — "validate with maxResults=1 before full execution" and "Confirm required scopes with a read-only probe before any write or bulk operation" — satisfying the batch/destructive validation requirement. Not a 5 because the error-recovery feedback loop is only named ("handle pagination, error recovery" in step 4) rather than shown as a validate-fix-retry cycle, and deploy's "test permissions" lacks a concrete check.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a genuine overview: quick-start examples stay inline, and all detailed guidance is split into five real one-level-deep reference files, each surfaced in a table with an explicit "Load When" condition. Cross-links between reference files are sibling navigation at the same level, not nested chains, matching the top anchor exactly.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: comprehensive concrete capabilities, an explicit multi-scenario "Use when" clause, third-person voice, and a well-defined Atlassian/MCP niche. The only weakness is that a handful of natural synonyms (wiki, project management) live in the metadata triggers rather than the description text.

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Specificity

The description lists multiple specific concrete actions — "querying Jira issues with JQL filters", "creating and updating tickets with custom fields", "searching or editing Confluence pages with CQL", "managing sprints and backlogs", "setting up MCP server authentication", "syncing documentation", "debugging Atlassian API integrations" — with comprehensive coverage of the domain, matching the top anchor. Not a 4 because there are no meaningful coverage gaps; every major capability area of the skill is named.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both questions: the "what" ("Integrates with Atlassian products to manage project tracking and documentation via MCP protocol") and the "when" ("Use when querying Jira issues with JQL filters, ... or debugging Atlassian API integrations") with concrete trigger phrases, matching the anchor-5 example structure. Not a 4 because the "when" clause is explicit and enumerates seven specific triggering scenarios rather than a generic condition.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good keyword coverage with natural terms users would say — "Jira issues", "Confluence pages", "tickets", "sprints", "backlogs", "documentation" — anchored by the query languages JQL and CQL. Not a 5 because common variations users might naturally say (e.g., "wiki", "project management", "Atlassian Cloud") appear only in the metadata triggers field, not the description itself.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

It occupies a clear niche — Atlassian product integration via MCP — with product-specific triggers (Jira, Confluence, JQL, CQL, sprints, backlogs) that are unlikely to fire for unrelated skills. Not a 4 because the only conceivable overlap ("setting up MCP server authentication") is scoped to the Atlassian context within the same sentence, keeping conflict risk minimal.

5 / 5

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20

Passed

Validation

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository

Jeffallan/claude-skills

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skills/atlassian-mcp/SKILL.md

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