--- title: pilotkit tagline: Connect GitHub Copilot to Jira and Confluence in one command description: pilotkit is an open-source CLI that connects a GitHub Copilot seat to Jira and Confluence with one command, through a read-only MCP server, and adds a local desk that shows the AI credits every answer costs. date: 2026-10-12 repo: https://github.com/brbousnguar/pilotkit npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pilotkit stack: JavaScript · Node.js · MCP · Copilot SDK license: Apache-2.0 status: v0.2 on npm video: /assets/video/pilotkit-demo.mp4 video_square: /assets/video/pilotkit-demo-square.mp4 poster: /assets/img/demo/pilotkit.jpg video_caption: A real session on the pilotkit desk, against a free Atlassian site filled with made-up data: two questions, what each one cost, then the Credits page. Voiceover in my own voice, cloned with AI. Waits sped up, and labelled. video_duration: 39.8 install_video: /assets/video/pilotkit-install.mp4 install_video_square: /assets/video/pilotkit-install-square.mp4 install_poster: /assets/img/demo/pilotkit-install.jpg install_video_caption: A real install from npm on my Mac: npm install -g pilotkit, then pilotkit setup with my Copilot seat and a free Atlassian site, then pilotkit start. The Copilot login and the email are hidden, and the API token came from an environment variable, so it never shows. Voiceover in my own voice, cloned with AI. Nothing sped up. install_video_duration: 41.8 --- pilotkit lets a GitHub Copilot seat read your Jira issues and Confluence pages. One command, `pilotkit setup`, signs you in to Copilot, checks your Atlassian API token, keeps it in the OS keychain and registers a read-only MCP server with the Copilot CLI and VS Code. It also starts a small desk on your own machine where you ask questions and see what each answer cost in Copilot AI credits. ## What you can ask it - Your open Jira issues, by priority. - What changed in a project this week, and who changed it. - A summary of one issue: the problem, what was tried, what's still open. - A Confluence page found by topic, with its steps listed. - A draft comment you paste yourself. All seven tools only read, with your own Atlassian account. There's no comment, transition or page-edit tool, on purpose. ## The interesting bit Copilot reports the cost of every model call in nano AI units, and the desk turns that into credits per answer, per chat and per day. My first real question about my open issues took two model calls and one tool call, and cost 0.12 credits. I wrote the whole story up here: [One command to make GitHub Copilot read your Jira, and see what every answer costs](/notes/pilotkit-copilot-jira-confluence.html). ## Run it ```bash npm install -g pilotkit pilotkit setup pilotkit start ``` It needs Node 22.13 or newer, a Copilot plan and an Atlassian Cloud site. Companies can add their own name, logo and colour with a brand pack: `pilotkit setup --brand `.