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Written by API Evangelist tooling for Jira's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Jira publishes.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
title: API Evangelist enrichment overlay for Jira Software Cloud API
version: '1.0.0'
extends: openapi/atlassian-jira-software-openapi.json
x-provenance:
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: generated
source: |
Generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline against the first-party Atlassian OpenAPI
definition harvested verbatim from https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/swagger.v3.json on 2026-09-06.
This overlay records API Evangelist enrichments only; the original specification is never mutated.
base_operations: 105
base_deprecated_operations: 8
actions:
- target: $.info
description: Record provenance of the harvested definition and the artifacts derived from it.
update:
x-apievangelist-provider: atlassian-jira
x-apievangelist-harvested: '2026-09-06'
x-apievangelist-source: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/swagger.v3.json
x-apievangelist-artifacts:
authentication: authentication/atlassian-jira-authentication.yml
scopes: scopes/atlassian-jira-scopes.yml
errors: errors/atlassian-jira-problem-types.yml
conventions: conventions/atlassian-jira-conventions.yml
lifecycle: lifecycle/atlassian-jira-lifecycle.yml
rate_limits: rate-limits/atlassian-jira-rate-limits.yml
data_model: data-model/atlassian-jira-data-model.yml
tool_crosswalk: mcp/atlassian-jira-tool-crosswalk.yml
- target: $.info
description: Cross-link the runtime rate-limit contract that is documented outside the specification.
update:
x-rate-limit-docs: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rate-limiting/
x-rate-limit-status: 429
x-rate-limit-headers:
- X-RateLimit-Limit
- X-RateLimit-Remaining
- X-RateLimit-Reset
- X-RateLimit-NearLimit
- RateLimit-Reason
- Retry-After
- target: $.info
description: Record the Atlassian REST API deprecation policy that governs every operation in this document.
update:
x-deprecation-policy: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/marketplace/atlassian-rest-api-policy/
x-deprecation-notice-period: P6M
x-changelog: https://developer.atlassian.com/changelog/
- target: $.servers
description: |
Note the second, non-templated calling host. The specification's own server is the tenant site
(https://your-domain.atlassian.net); an OAuth 2.0 (3LO) app calls the identical paths through the
Atlassian gateway at https://api.atlassian.com/ex/jira/{cloudId} instead.
update:
x-alternate-oauth-host: https://api.atlassian.com/ex/jira/{cloudId}
x-cloudid-discovery: https://api.atlassian.com/oauth/token/accessible-resources
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