I built an open-source CLI called bitbucket-jira-cli (command: bj) and wanted to share it here. Full disclosure: I’m the author.
The idea is simple: bring the GitHub gh workflow to Bitbucket and Jira. bj manages Bitbucket pull requests, repositories and pipelines, and Jira issues, from one command tree that mirrors gh. If you know gh pr, gh issue and gh repo, you already know bj pr, bj issue and bj repo.
The part I actually built it for is branch-name-as-Jira-key. Your git branch carries the key (for example feature/PROJ-42-thing), and bj uses it automatically. bj pr create fills the PR title from the ticket, links the PR to the issue, and moves the ticket to In Progress. bj pr merge moves it to Done. No copy-pasting keys between tabs.
A few other notes:
- It talks to the REST APIs directly, so it works in scripts and CI, and there is no server to run.
- Bitbucket Cloud and Jira Cloud, with a scoped or unscoped API token for each.
- It ships an agent skill, so AI coding agents can drive it the same way they drive
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Install:
uv tool install bitbucket-jira-cli # or: pip install bitbucket-jira-cli
bj auth login
Docs: Bitbucket Jira CLI - Bitbucket Jira CLI
Here a quick demo:
I’d like to hear where the current commands don’t match how you work. Feedback and issues welcome.