"Invalid token format" error

[Rohit Agarwal]

Hi,

I am trying to hit https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse endpoint using the API token in Authorization Bearer header. 

I have separate API tokens for Jira & Confluence. 

I keep getting the following "Invalid token format" response error. What is the expected token format?

{
  "error": "invalid_token",
  "error_description": "Invalid token format"
}

The request payload is as follows

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "tools/list",
  "params": {},
  "id": 1
}

I tried using the following headers

• jira-token
• jira-username
• jira-url

The error response has changed to 

{
  "error": "invalid_token",
  "error_description": "Missing or invalid access token"
}

[Michael Norgren]

Hi, @Rohit Agarwal - Were you able to figure this out? I am running into the same issues

[Rohit Agarwal]

Hi @Michael Norgren ,

Unfortunately, there has been no progress made so far.

[Samuel Gatica _ServiceRocket_]

Hi @Rohit Agarwal 

Welcome to the community!

Please check the following:

• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Platform-articles/Using-the-Atlassian-Remote-MCP-Server-beta/ba-p/3005104
• https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Atlassian-Platform-articles/Atlassian-Remote-MCP-Server-beta-now-available-for-desktop/ba-p/3022084

Best regards

Sam

[Rohit Agarwal]

Hi Sam, 

Thanks for your reply. 

The links you mentioned outline integration of remote mcp server with AI desktop tools or development IDEs. I did go through the links before raising this ticket. 

What I am trying to do is to connect to the remote mcp server either using Postman or a simple python code.

[Toshiro]

Hi, same issue on Python with Claude :

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(

api_key=ANTHROPIC_API

response = client.beta.messages.create(

model="claude-sonnet-4-20250514",

max_tokens=1000,

messages=[{

"role": "user",

"content": "Create a Jira user story called TEST test related to an epic called TEST EPIC",

},

],

mcp_servers= [

{

"type": "url",

"url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse",

"name": "Atlassian",

"authorization_token": ATLASSIAN_API_TOKEN,

},

],

betas= ["mcp-client-2025-04-04"],

);

print(response)