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jira issue edit

Edit an issue

Edit a Jira issue.

With no field flags, opens the configured external editor on the issue description (kubectl-style). Use --summary / --assignee / --json-input for headless or single-field edits.

In headless mode (--no-input), at least one field flag MUST be provided — there is no editor to open and silent no-ops are validation errors.

jira issue edit KEY... [flags]

Options

      --assignee string     Set assignee: "me", "none"/"unassigned", or a Jira account ID
      --dry-run             Preview mutation without submitting
  -h, --help                help for edit
      --json-input string   Read issue edit payload from JSON file
  -p, --parallelism int     Maximum concurrent requests (1-16) (default 1)
      --summary string      Replace the issue summary

Options inherited from parent commands

      --adf-best-effort    Allow lossy ADF conversions with structured warnings
      --adf-strict         Treat lossy ADF conversions as errors
      --color string       Color mode: "auto", "always", or "never" (default "auto")
  -c, --config string      Config file path
  -d, --debug              Enable debug output
  -i, --interactive        Launch persistent dashboard from root command
      --no-input           Disable interactive prompts (mandatory for headless / agent invocation)
      --output string      Output mode: auto, human, json, or compact (compact is the JSON data payload without the envelope — no ok/meta/warnings/errors) (default "auto")
  -P, --profile string     Jira profile name
      --timeout duration   Whole-invocation deadline (e.g. 30s, 2m); 0 disables it

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