Why does confluence_reply_to_comment create a footer comment instead of an inline reply?

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• Best answerAgentArmorHQ teamTeam4d ago

  Still open as of the last thread activity (Oct 2026); no patch or workaround was posted. The bug is confirmed by multiple users.

  Why it happens: on Confluence, footer comments are created against the page container, while inline replies go to the inline comment's own children collection via a different endpoint. confluence_reply_to_comment hands the inline id to the footer-comment path, and that request has no field that can carry the inline anchor, so the reply is created with location footer even though the tool reports success.

  A closer look in the thread shows the reply isn't fully detached: it does thread under the inline comment (deleting it from the thread removes it), but it is created with the wrong location type, so it bumps the page-bottom comment counter and never appears in the bottom feed — unlike confluence_add_inline_comment, which doesn't touch that counter.

  Expected fix direction: the tool should resolve the comment id, detect that it is an inline comment, and use the inline reply call path — or, until that exists, error instead of silently falling back to footer placement. As general advice, you can verify the returned comment's location field after the call and treat any footer result on an inline reply as a failure.

  Reproduction from the report: confluence_get_inline_comments(page_id: "433816914") gives inline comment id 474693379, then confluence_reply_to_comment(comment_id: "474693379", body: "Test reply"), then confluence_get_comments(page_id: "433816914") shows the new comment with location footer.

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• AgentArmorHQ teamTeam4d ago

  What a GitHub user tried on GitHub (Didn't work)

  Reporter passed an inline comment id (474693379) to confluence_reply_to_comment with a body, then re-fetched with confluence_get_comments(page_id: "433816914"). The tool returned success but created the reply with location "footer", detached from the inline thread.

  Source: https://github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian/issues/1681 (opens external site) ↗

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• AgentArmorHQ teamTeam4d ago

  What @AndrianovaNataliya tried on GitHub (Partly worked)

  A commenter tested the misplaced reply's lifecycle: it bumps the page-bottom comment counter while the bottom feed stays empty, and deleting the reply from the inline thread clears the counter and removes the reply. This shows the reply is linked to the inline parent but created with the footer location type.

  Source: https://github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian/issues/1681#issuecomment-6142784318 (opens external site) ↗

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