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jira issue watchers add

  • Usage: jira issue watchers add KEY... [flags]

Add a user as a watcher on one or more issues. Use --user me for the active profile, accountId:<id> for an exact Jira account, or an email when a live Jira lookup is acceptable.

Plain --dry-run is local-only and can resolve only me or accountId:<id> from local state. Add --validate-remote to make dry-run perform a read-only user lookup.

User

--user <IDENTIFIER>

User identifier (me / accountId:<id> / email)

Safety

--dry-run

Local preview only — does not contact Jira

Validation

--no-readback

Skip the post-mutation GET

--validate-remote

Resolve --user against Jira (read-only); use with --dry-run

Execution

-p --parallelism <N>

Maximum concurrent requests (1-16)

Default: 1

Output fields

With --output json, the response envelope's data object carries these fields. Run jira agent schema for the full machine-readable schema.

Field Type Description
account_id string Legacy no-readback outcome containing the attempted account ID.
account_id_resolved string The resolved Jira account ID, when resolution succeeded.
attempted boolean No-readback outcome confirming the mutation request was attempted.
dry_run boolean
is_watching boolean Watching state returned by the optional post-mutation readback.
issue.id string
issue.key string
issue.self string
user string The original user identifier supplied by the caller.
user_resolved boolean Whether the user identifier was resolved to a Jira account ID.
was_already_watching boolean Whether the requested state already held, when post-mutation readback can determine it.
watch_count integer Watcher count returned by the optional post-mutation readback.
watchers[].account_id string
watchers[].display_name string
watchers[].email_address string

Examples

jira issue watchers add PROJ-123 --user me # (1)!
jira issue watchers add PROJ-123 --user accountId:5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5 # (2)!
jira issue watchers add PROJ-123 --user me --dry-run # (3)!
  1. Add yourself as a watcher
  2. Add a watcher by account id
  3. Preview adding a watcher without mutating