Atlassian Confluence MCP Server

What it is

An MCP server for Confluence that talks to Cloud, on-premise Server and Data Center from one package. It goes well past reading pages: spaces get created and deleted, pages get copied and moved, restrictions get set, inline tasks get extracted, export URLs get generated. It ships read-only and you opt into writes.

What you get

• Page work — read, create, update, patch, append, replace a range, copy, move and delete — confluence_get_page, confluence_create_page, confluence_update_page, confluence_patch_page, confluence_append_to_page, confluence_replace_page_range, confluence_copy_page, confluence_move_page, confluence_delete_page
• Finding pages: full CQL and text search, lookup by title or by a pasted Confluence URL, and recently modified — confluence_search, confluence_search_pages, confluence_get_page_by_title, confluence_get_page_by_url, confluence_get_recently_modified
• Long pages read in pieces rather than all at once — confluence_get_page_body_chunk
• Spaces: list, inspect, find the homepage, create — including a private one — and delete — confluence_get_spaces, confluence_get_space_by_key, confluence_get_space_homepage, confluence_create_space, confluence_create_private_space, confluence_delete_space
• Hierarchy and history: children, ancestors, the version list and one version's content — confluence_get_child_pages, confluence_get_page_ancestors, confluence_get_page_versions, confluence_get_page_version
• Labels, comments and attachments, including uploading a file from the host — confluence_add_page_label, confluence_delete_page_label, confluence_get_page_comments, confluence_add_page_comment, confluence_get_page_attachments, confluence_upload_attachment
• Watchers, restrictions and inline tasks, plus PDF and Word export URLs — confluence_get_page_watchers, confluence_watch_page, confluence_unwatch_page, confluence_get_page_permissions, confluence_set_page_permissions, confluence_get_page_tasks, confluence_export_page

Requirements

Node.js 20 or newer and a Confluence instance — Cloud, or Server/Data Center 7.9+. npx atlassian-confluence-mcp-server runs it with nothing installed (1.6.0 in package.json). Credentials come from the environment: CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL always, then PAT alone for Server and Data Center, or CONFLUENCE_USERNAME plus PAT for Cloud, with CONFLUENCE_PASSWORD as the Basic Auth fallback. CONFLUENCE_READ_ONLY defaults to true, so mutating tools stay off until you set it to false, and CONFLUENCE_ENABLE_DESTRUCTIVE_TOOLS defaults to false, gating deletes and permission changes separately. Attachment uploads stay disabled until CONFLUENCE_UPLOAD_ALLOWED_DIRS names the directories they may read from.

Setup effort

One command plus a key — npx atlassian-confluence-mcp-server, then supply credentials

Tools you get

47 tools named in the project's documentation.

Requires

• npx on PATH
• Node.js 20+
• CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL in your environment
• PAT in your environment
• CONFLUENCE_USERNAME in your environment (Confluence Cloud only)