Jira Daily

Jira Daily - Standup Meeting Preparation

Generates a structured standup update from real Jira and git activity. Complements jira-cli (general Jira command reference) and jira-todo (forward-looking planning, this skill looks backward at what was actually done).

Anti-Hallucination Guidelines

A standup report is only useful if every line traces back to a real query result:

1. Only list tickets that came from actual jira CLI output.
2. Only mark a ticket "Completed" if its status is Done/Closed/Released.
3. Use real git log commit counts, never estimate.
4. Only mention blockers explicitly labeled or discussed in Jira.
5. Only include a report section if Phase 3 actually gathered data for it. Never fill a section with placeholder text like "[List any risks]" or invented numbers (story points, lines changed, coverage %): omit the section or field entirely instead. If a template field (Next steps, due date) isn't stated in the ticket's own description/comments/due-date field, leave it out rather than guessing.

Workflow

Phase 1: Determine Project Key

Priority order:

1. Command argument: --project ABC or -p ABC
2. Jira CLI config: read from ~/.config/.jira/.config.yml

PROJECT_KEY=$(cat ~/.config/.jira/.config.yml 2>/dev/null | grep -A1 "^project:" | grep "key:" | awk '{print $2}')
echo "Detected project: $PROJECT_KEY"

If no project key is found, ask the user to specify --project <KEY> rather than guessing one from repo name or branch.

Phase 2: Calculate Date Range

# Report since yesterday, or since Friday if today is Monday
if [[ $(date +%u) == 1 ]]; then
  SINCE_DATE=$(date -v-3d +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -d "3 days ago" +%Y-%m-%d)
else
  SINCE_DATE=$(date -v-1d +%Y-%m-%d 2>/dev/null || date -d "yesterday" +%Y-%m-%d)
fi
echo "Reporting since: $SINCE_DATE"

--since <date> overrides $SINCE_DATE directly.

Phase 3: Gather Activity Data

Every field that ends up in the report has to come from one of these commands: if a template field in Phase 5 isn't backed by output here, cut the field, not the discipline.

# Tickets updated recently
jira issue list --updated -1d --plain --columns key,summary,status,priority,type

# Tickets moved to done/completed (also gives the type breakdown for Completed)
jira issue list --jql "status changed to (Done, Released, Closed) after -1d AND assignee was currentUser()" --plain --columns key,summary,status,priority,type

# Tickets currently in progress
jira issue list --assignee $(jira me) --status "In Progress" "Code Review" "In Review" --plain --columns key,summary,status,priority,type,duedate

# Blockers
jira issue list --assignee $(jira me) --jql "labels = 'blocked' OR description ~ 'blocked'" --plain

# Git activity (for commit-correlation, not for a lines-changed or coverage metric)
git log --author="$(git config user.email)" --since="$SINCE_DATE" --oneline --all --no-merges
git rev-list --count --since="$SINCE_DATE" --author="$(git config user.email)" --all 2>/dev/null || echo "0"

Phase 4: Classify and Correlate

Do this inline: a standup's ticket count is small enough that spinning up subagents just adds latency for no benefit:

1. Bucket each ticket into Completed / In Progress / Blocked / Started, based only on its actual status field.
2. Match git commit messages against each ticket ID (e.g. ABC-1234 appearing in the subject line) to get a real commit count per ticket: this is the only code-activity signal available; jira-daily has no PR data, so never print a PR: #1234 (merged) line, there's nothing in Phase 3 that could back it.
3. For completed tickets, note business/technical impact from the ticket description: keep it factual, not speculative.

Phase 5: Generate Report

Track sections completed with TodoWrite, then render using the requested format. Every section is conditional on Phase 3/4 actually producing matching data: a report with no blockers has no Blockers section.

Output Formats

For detailed templates (default, brief, slack, manager), see references/output-formats.md (load when rendering the final report).

• Default (Detailed): completed work, in-progress items, blockers, ticket summary
• Brief (--format brief): one line per section, for quick standups
• Slack (--format slack): markdown formatted for Slack/Teams posting
• Manager (--format manager): executive summary of delivery highlights and risks

Command Options

• --project <KEY> / -p <KEY>: Jira project key
• --since <date>: override the automatic date calculation, e.g. jira-daily --since 2025-01-20
• --format <format>: brief | detailed (default) | slack | manager
• --include-planned: include tickets planned for today, not just completed/in-progress

Usage Examples

jira-daily                                          # auto-detect project, yesterday's activity
jira-daily --project ABC
jira-daily --format brief                            # quick standup
jira-daily --format slack                            # for Slack posting
jira-daily --format manager                          # for a manager 1:1
jira-daily --since 2025-01-15
jira-daily --since $(date -v-7d +%Y-%m-%d) --format manager   # weekly summary

Integration Points

• jira-todo: compare yesterday's planned work against actual completion
• jira-cli: use for detailed command syntax and sprint/epic workflows
• gh-daily: use instead when the work lives in GitHub Issues/PRs, not Jira

Requirements

• jira-cli installed: https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli
• Config at ~/.config/.jira/.config.yml
• A local git repository for commit correlation