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Jira Integration

Jira Integration

Focus Engine connects to Jira Cloud via OAuth 2.0, syncing your sprint issues and assigned tasks into the daily briefing and day planner.

Overview

Jira is ubiquitous in mid-size engineering teams. The Jira integration makes sprint work visible inside Focus Engine — with priority, status, due dates, and epic context — so you get a unified view of your day without switching between Jira and your calendar.

Connecting Jira

Focus Engine uses the Atlassian OAuth 2.0 flow to connect to your Jira Cloud workspace. No API tokens or manual credential setup is required.

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations.
  2. Click Connect Jira.
  3. You will be redirected to Atlassian to authorise access.
  4. Select the Jira Cloud site(s) you want to connect.
  5. Approve the requested permissions and return to Focus Engine.

Once connected, Focus Engine will begin syncing your issues on the next briefing cycle.

Note: This integration supports Jira Cloud only. Jira Server and Jira Data Center are not currently supported.

What Gets Synced

Focus Engine pulls two categories of Jira issues:

Active Sprint Issues

All issues in your team's currently active sprint that are assigned to you. This ensures that sprint-committed work is always visible in your daily plan.

Assigned Issues

Any Jira issue assigned to you, regardless of whether it belongs to an active sprint. This covers backlog items, ad-hoc requests, and cross-project work.

Issue Data

For every synced issue, Focus Engine captures the following fields:

FieldDescription
PriorityJira priority level: Blocker, Critical, Major, Minor, or Trivial
StatusCurrent workflow status (e.g. To Do, In Progress, In Review, Done)
Due DateSurfaced in the "due today" section and used for deadline-aware prioritisation
Epic LinkParent epic, used to group related issues and provide context in the briefing

How Jira Issues Appear in Focus Engine

Daily Briefing

  • Issues with a due date today appear in the Due Today section.
  • In-progress issues (status: In Progress, In Review) appear in the In Progress section.
  • Priority and epic context are shown alongside each issue.

Day Planner

  • Jira issues are eligible for scheduling into focus blocks, following the same priority order as other task sources.
  • Blocker and Critical priority issues are treated as urgent and scheduled first.
  • Duration estimates follow Focus Engine defaults (bug: 60 min, feature: 120 min) and can be overridden.

Cross-System Deduplication

If the same work appears in both Jira and another connected source (e.g. a GitHub issue linked to a Jira ticket), Focus Engine will present it once with context from both systems.

Permissions

The OAuth flow requests the minimum Atlassian scopes needed to read your issues:

  • read:jira-work — Read issue data, sprint membership, and epic links.
  • read:jira-user — Identify the authenticated user to filter assigned issues.

Focus Engine does not request write access to Jira. It cannot create, update, or transition issues.

Disconnecting Jira

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations.
  2. Find the Jira connection and click Disconnect.
  3. Revoke access in your Atlassian account settings if you also want to remove the OAuth grant on Atlassian's side.

Once disconnected, Jira issues will no longer appear in future briefings. Previously scheduled focus blocks are not affected.

Limitations

  • Jira Cloud only — Jira Server and Data Center are not supported.
  • Assigned or active-sprint issues only — Issues in the backlog that are not assigned to you are not synced.
  • No write-back — Focus Engine cannot update Jira issue status or log work.