The Jira online help should provide one point location/page which explains when, how and under which conditions work items (i.e. tasks/stories/features/epics) can have their state changed automatically based on a state change from the layer above or below.

For example, when a Story in Jira Align moves to In Progress, the parent Feature will also move to In Progress.
This should be outlined in one of the help pages with all other 'automatic' built-in state changes.