acli

What This Skill Does

The acli skill acts as an interface for the Atlassian Command Line Interface (CLI), enabling OpenClaw agents to perform complex Jira and Atlassian organization management tasks directly from the terminal. It provides robust capabilities for managing Jira work items (creating, transitioning, searching, editing), configuring projects, boards, sprints, filters, and dashboards, as well as executing high-level administrative tasks such as user management and authentication handling. This skill serves as a bridge for automating workflows, ensuring that developers and system administrators can interact with Atlassian services programmatically without leaving the agent's environment.

Installation

To integrate this skill, use the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/peetzweg/atlassian-cli. Before usage, ensure the acli binary is installed on the host system. Verification can be performed by running acli --help. Authentication is a prerequisite; users should rely on the --web flag for OAuth-based authentication in interactive sessions or utilize environment variables for secure, non-interactive API token authentication in CI/CD environments. Always verify your status with acli jira auth status prior to initiating commands.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for automating repetitive Jira tasks, such as bulk updating status codes, managing sprint backlogs, or performing administrative audit logs. It is particularly useful for DevOps teams needing to synchronize project data with local machine states, developers requiring quick transitions of their tickets, and organization admins overseeing user lifecycle management and access control. By leveraging the CLI's speed, the skill enables efficient handling of complex Jira workflows that would otherwise require multiple clicks in the web UI.

Example Prompts

1. "Find all bugs assigned to me in the current sprint and transition them to 'In Review'."
2. "List all active projects in our organization and create a new summary report in JSON format."
3. "Can you help me deactivate the user '[email protected]' from our organization and archive their pending work items?"

Tips & Limitations

Always prioritize security by using environment variables ($API_TOKEN) rather than hardcoding credentials. When executing destructive commands like delete or archive, the skill follows strict safety protocols—it will never execute a destructive action without explicit user confirmation. For large-scale operations, always use a dry-run or search query first to preview affected items. Remember that the skill requires the acli binary to be pre-authenticated on the system where the agent is running; it cannot perform the initial login if the environment does not allow for browser-based flows or API key injection.