Atlassian · Task agent
Rovo Dev (RovoDev)
Rovo Dev is Atlassian's coding agent, available internally on all Jira sites. It works from a Jira work item to a pull request, and the developer reviews the plan and the code at each step. It became generally available in October 2025.
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- Approach type
- Task agent
- Work
- Coding, Code review
- Human involvement
- Human in loop
- Invocation
- Interactive
- Interfaces
- Jira
- Deployment stage
- Scaled
- Evidence strength
- Detailed primary
- Entry reviewed
Where people stay involved
- Jira issue → reviewed pull requestWork product review · Level 3
Level 3 for Jira issue → reviewed pull request; human attention boundary: work-product-review.
- Observation date
- 2024-11
Implementation details
Built on the HULA framework, which runs set context, generate plan, generate code, and raise PR
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Reported results and limitations
The catalog records what the sources report, with the scope and the denominator of every figure. A qualification below limits the figure it sits under.
Reported metrics
Dogfooded across 1,900+ repositories with a 50,000+ comment internal dataset
The source does not report the denominator of this figure.
- Reported by
- Atlassian
- Scope
- Internal code-review dogfooding repositories and Rovo Dev-generated classifier training comments
- Observation date
- 2026
Dogfooded across 1,900+ repositories over more than a year
The source does not report the denominator of this figure.
- Reported by
- Atlassian
- Scope
- Internal code-review evaluation across 1,900+ repositories spanning over a year
- Method
- Year-long online evaluation across internal repositories
Trained on a proprietary internal dogfooding dataset of 50,000+ Rovo Dev comments
The source does not report the denominator of this figure.
- Reported by
- Atlassian
- Scope
- ModernBERT classifier training dataset of internally sourced Rovo Dev-generated comments
- Method
- Internal dogfooding comments labeled by whether they led to a code resolution
Sources and research details
Citations link to the original publisher. Each source also keeps a preserved copy in the repository, so a changed or removed page stays checkable.
- Improving the coding agent experiencehttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience
- Developer productivity improved with Rovo Devhttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev
- HULA: Human-in-the-loop software development agents (arXiv 2411.12924)https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12924
Research details for every claim on this page
- Summary
- Statement type
- Fact
- Provenance
- Reported
- Confidence
- High
- Confidence reason
- A linked first-party source states the claim.
- Headline claim
- Statement type
- Metric
- Provenance
- Reported
- Confidence
- Medium
- Confidence reason
- Atlassian reported the dogfooding scale in its own engineering blog without independent verification.
- Reported by
- Atlassian
- Scope
- Internal code-review dogfooding repositories and Rovo Dev-generated classifier training comments
- Denominator
- Not reported
- Method
- Not reported
- Observation date
- 2026
- SupportsDeveloper productivity improved with Rovo DevPreserved content.md, lines 66, 87
- Harness
- Statement type
- Fact
- Provenance
- Reported
- Confidence
- High
- Confidence reason
- A linked first-party source states the claim.
- Interfaces
- Statement type
- Fact
- Provenance
- Reported
- Confidence
- High
- Confidence reason
- A linked first-party source states the claim.
- Key observation
- Statement type
- Metric
- Provenance
- Reported
- Confidence
- Medium
- Confidence reason
- Atlassian reported the dogfooding scale in its own engineering blog.
- Reported by
- Atlassian
- Scope
- Internal code-review evaluation across 1,900+ repositories spanning over a year
- Denominator
- Not reported
- Method
- Year-long online evaluation across internal repositories
- Observation date
- Not reported
- SupportsDeveloper productivity improved with Rovo DevPreserved content.md, lines 87
- Key observation
- Statement type
- Metric
- Provenance
- Reported
- Confidence
- Medium
- Confidence reason
- Atlassian reported the dataset size in its own engineering blog.
- Reported by
- Atlassian
- Scope
- ModernBERT classifier training dataset of internally sourced Rovo Dev-generated comments
- Denominator
- Not reported
- Method
- Internal dogfooding comments labeled by whether they led to a code resolution
- Observation date
- Not reported
- SupportsDeveloper productivity improved with Rovo DevPreserved content.md, lines 66
- Operating model assessment
- Statement type
- Inference
- Provenance
- Catalog judgment
- Confidence
- Medium
- Confidence reason
- The HULA framework and engineering blog describe a human-in-the-loop cycle that ends in a reviewed pull request.
- Observation date
- 2024-11