I built a Jira client for VS Code that stays signed in (free tier, $19 one-time for Pro)

Every Jira shop I've worked in has the same little tax: a Jira tab you keep flipping to for the ticket number, the status, that one comment with the repro steps. Atlassian ships an official VS Code extension for this. As of 2026-09-10 it has 3.3 million installs and a 2.55-star rating across 231 reviews, and the top complaints in its issue tracker are "Jira and Bitbucket keep disconnecting" and "Authentication needed every time a new folder is opened". The best-known community alternative was last updated in 2020. So I built Ticketpane: a small Jira Cloud client that lives in the sidebar of VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf, and whose whole personality is it stays signed in . Install: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gearyworks.ticketpane · Site: https://ticketpane.com/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch What it does My Issues in the sidebar: everything assigned to you and unresolved, grouped by status, priority icon next to each. Issue view inside the editor: summary, status, assignee, priority, sprint, the full description and the comments, rendered from Jira's document format. No browser tab. Change status from the transitions your workflow actually allows, add a comment , create an issue . Branch from issue : right-click a ticket and get feature/APP-412-checkout-button-broken created and checked out. The template is a setting. Saved JQL filters, more than one Jira site, open in browser, copy key / URL. Why it stays signed in No OAuth. You paste an Atlassian API token once (classic or the newer scoped kind; both work, and if Atlassian's scoped token only answers on their API gateway, Ticketpane figures that out instead of telling you the token is wrong). The token goes into your editor's encrypted secret storage, so it survives restarts, new folders and new windows. That is the entire trick. It is also why there is no "Ticketpane server": your issues, comments and credentials travel from your editor to Atlassian and nowhere else. W