Sherif-sclusive: Atlassian Intelligence & Rovo Updates (April)

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Welcome to the April deep dive on the latest AI powered features across Rovo and our products. This months' edition is huge, lets go!

1️⃣ Atlassian Studio (GA)

We are really excited to announce the availability of Atlassian Studio!

Studio brings together Atlassian’s builder experiences under one roof so you can create and connect everything from AI agents to automation, assets and hubs — no coding required (unless you’re into that). Studio is accessible via the app switcher, learn more.

We’re just at the beginning of this journey and you’ll see us invest a lot more in this space bringing together all these pieces to enable you to build, powered by AI. Watch this space!

2️⃣  More tools for your new team mates, Rovo Agents

We’ve made several improvements to unlock more use cases that your new (and shiny!) virtual team mates can help out with.

Agents can do more with pages and issues

Agents can now edit (append) pages via Confluence automations
This enables you to now build agents who might use a Confluence page as a log. For example, you could have an agent does some research on a regular basis and appends the results to a page.

Create Confluence pages via Jira automations

One most requested features is now shipped!; here are some ideas for how to use it:

🔁 Sprint complete? → Use an agent to create release notes.
🚨 Incident escalated? → Use an agent to create a incident report.
💡 Capturing blog ideas in a Jira work item? → Why not drag it to an “explore with AI” column, let the agent generate a page with ideas from the work item in a page, and comment back on the with a link when they’re done.

Inside Chat

Agents can now to take action for up to 10 issues at a time (instead of one at a time). Got a spec in Confluence you want to move to your backlog? Ask the requirements agent to break it down into Jira work items.

Forge actions & no-code Rovo Agents

Forge developers can now publish their actions module for use by Rovo agents that have been created by users. These customer created agents can then access data that the app itself might not be able to reach, with no code. Check out the developer documentation and give it a try.

3️⃣ Atlassian Remote MCP Server Launch (Beta)

Atlassian has launched the Remote MCP Server, allowing customers to securely access Jira and Confluence data from external AI tools, starting with Claude by Anthropic. For more details, check out to the announcement in the blog post.

4️⃣ New Rovo Search & Data Connectors (GA)

In addition to over 50 different SaaS app connectors, we shipped 2 new connectors: Docusign and Confluence Data Centre!

Customers can now seamlessly integrate their DC and Cloud environments with the help of Rovo. Rovo Search, Chat and Agents are enriched with DC knowledge through the synchronisation of Confluence DC data with Rovo in the Cloud. The Jira DC connector is also coming soon... 🤫

Keen to learn more? This Community post covers it all.

Bonus: Our existing connectors are also continuing to be improved. This month, we added support for Zendesk Knowledge Base Articles (previously the connector supported just tickets).

5️⃣ AI work item creation from Slack (GA) & MS Teams (Beta)  

Conversations in both Microsoft Teams and Slack are transformed into actionable Jira work items with AI work creation, now available in Open Beta for MS Teams and generally available for Slack.

For more details check out the documentation:

• AI work creation from Slack: Integrate Jira Cloud and Slack

• AI work creation from MS Teams: Integrate Jira Cloud with Microsoft Teams

6️⃣  Related searches, Rovo definitions in Jira Comments, citation improvements

To help you discover similar items, we now show related searches that might be relevant to your query. Related searches is available as part of the Rovo rollout to Premium & Enterprise customers that is currently in-progress.

Next, Rovo definitions were previously in Confluence pages and Jira work item descriptions. Today they’re now also in Jira comments. See a term that you don’t understand? Rovo will contextually define this using first and third-party knowledge.

Finally, we know transparency is key for trust with AI. We’ve continued to improve the citation coverage for both Rovo Chat and Rovo Answers in search. Chat citation coverage improved from 50% to 80% and answers in search citation coverage from 80 to 91%. To help visualise, I asked Rovo Chat to make me look good... not bad, ey? 😉

7️⃣ Rovo activities in the admin audit log

All this AI! How do admins stay on top of what’s happening? Easy, they can now can see activities for creation of agents, third-party connectors and so forth. Learn more here.

That’s a wrap for April, we’ll be back next month with our May update!

[Thorsten Letschert _Decadis AG_]

"Sherif-sclusive" - I like!

[Dr Valeri Colon _Connect Centric_]

I love the Sherif-sclusives. Let me count the ways:

• They always show up in my feed right when I need them—is Sherif psychic or just that good?

• They distill complex ideas into something I can share with my team without needing a phd.

• They’re not just relevant—they’re real. No fluff, just practical insights I can act on.

• I’ve reused at least three classes and may or may not take credit (but I do mention Sherif, promise).

• They make me feel like I’m in on something special before it hits the roadmap slides.

• They start the kind of conversations we should be having but never get around to—until Sherif drops a gem.

• I walk away smarter every single time—without needing to read a 10-page blog post.

• They make the Atlassian community feel more connected, like we’re all building better together.

• They remind me why I love working in this space—with smart, thoughtful voices leading the way.

[Ulrich Kuhnhardt _IzymesCo_]

It must be just me who can't talk Rovo into creating tasks or stories in Jira (JST-1132733)

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_]

The hype is real! 😎⚡

[Mohamed Benziane]

Thank for sharing

[Tomislav Tobijas]

This citation coverage visualization is quite nice!

Good job everyone 👏