📘 Introduction

Connecting Claude Desktop with Atlassian Confluence streamlines your workflow by enabling Claude to retrieve, summarize, and publish content directly to Confluence pages. Thanks to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this integration is seamless. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to set it up using Atlassian’s remote MCP server.

✅ Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have:

☑️ Installed Claude Desktop
☑️ Access to Confluence Project

🧠 Use Case and Architecture

The goal is to empower Claude to communicate intelligently with Confluence. For example, Claude should be able to:

  • Access existing pages
  • Summarize or expand content
  • Create new documentation

Here’s a high-level view of the architecture:

🤖 Claude (Host with MCP Client)
Claude Desktop acts as the host, equipped with an MCP client.
🌐 Confluence (Remote Service)
Confluence serves as the remote service that Claude communicates with.
🔌 MCP Server
The MCP Server is the bridge between Claude and Confluence. Atlassian offers a Remote MCP Server beta that uses the server URL https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse.

🚪1️⃣ Open Developer Settings in Claude

First, launch Claude Desktop and go to Settings.

Switch to the Developer tab.

⚙️2️⃣ Edit configuration

Click Edit Config.

Open the JSON configuration file claude_desktop_config.json.

Add the following snippet:

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