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# Atlassian — 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.

- Approach type: Task agent
- Deployment stage: Scaled
- Autonomy: Human in loop
- Evidence strength: Detailed primary
- Status: Commercialized
- First reported year: 2024
- Work: Coding, Code review
- Interfaces: Jira
- Invocation: Interactive
- Entry reviewed: 2026-09-15

## Where people stay involved

- **Jira issue → reviewed pull request** — Work product review · Level 3

## Overview

### Summary

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.

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--summary`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [Improving the coding agent experience](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-1/content.md)
- Supports · [2] [Developer productivity improved with Rovo Dev](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-2/content.md)
- Supports · [3] [HULA: Human-in-the-loop software development agents (arXiv 2411.12924)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12924) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-3/content.md)

## Supervision evidence

### Operating model assessment

Level 3 for Jira issue → reviewed pull request; human attention boundary: work-product-review.

Inference · Catalog judgment · Medium confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--operating-models-0`

Confidence reason: The HULA framework and engineering blog describe a human-in-the-loop cycle that ends in a reviewed pull request.

Qualifications:

- Observation date: 2024-11

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [Improving the coding agent experience](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-1/content.md)

## Implementation details

### Harness

Built on the HULA framework, which runs set context, generate plan, generate code, and raise PR

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--architecture-harness`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [Improving the coding agent experience](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-1/content.md)

### Interfaces

jira

Fact · Reported · High confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--architecture-interfaces`

Confidence reason: A linked first-party source states the claim.

Evidence:

- Supports · [1] [Improving the coding agent experience](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-1/content.md)

## Reported metrics

### Headline claim

Dogfooded across 1,900+ repositories with a 50,000+ comment internal dataset

Metric · Reported · Medium confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--headline-metric`

Confidence reason: Atlassian reported the dogfooding scale in its own engineering blog without independent verification.

Qualifications:

- 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

Evidence:

- Supports · [2] [Developer productivity improved with Rovo Dev](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-2/content.md) · Preserved content.md, lines 66, 87

### Key observation

Dogfooded across 1,900+ repositories over more than a year

Metric · Reported · Medium confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--key-metrics-0`

Confidence reason: Atlassian reported the dogfooding scale in its own engineering blog.

Qualifications:

- 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

Evidence:

- Supports · [2] [Developer productivity improved with Rovo Dev](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-2/content.md) · Preserved content.md, lines 87

### Key observation

Trained on a proprietary internal dogfooding dataset of 50,000+ Rovo Dev comments

Metric · Reported · Medium confidence · `atlassian-rovo-dev--key-metrics-1`

Confidence reason: Atlassian reported the dataset size in its own engineering blog.

Qualifications:

- 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

Evidence:

- Supports · [2] [Developer productivity improved with Rovo Dev](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev) · [Preserved copy](https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-2/content.md) · Preserved content.md, lines 66

## Sources

1. [Improving the coding agent experience](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience)
   - Engineering blog · First party · Evidence
   - Original URL: <https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/improving-coding-agent-experience>
   - Accessed: 2026-08-13 · Last verified: 2026-08-31
   - Preserved copy in the repository: <https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-1/content.md>
2. [Developer productivity improved with Rovo Dev](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev)
   - Engineering blog · First party · Evidence
   - Original URL: <https://www.atlassian.com/blog/atlassian-engineering/developer-productivity-improved-with-rovo-dev>
   - Accessed: 2026-08-13 · Last verified: 2026-08-31
   - Preserved copy in the repository: <https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-2/content.md>
3. [HULA: Human-in-the-loop software development agents (arXiv 2411.12924)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12924)
   - Paper · First party · Evidence
   - Original URL: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12924>
   - Published: 2024-11 · Accessed: 2026-08-13 · Last verified: 2026-08-31
   - Preserved copy in the repository: <https://github.com/steel-experiments/internal-agents-map/blob/main/archive/sources/atlassian-rovo-dev-source-3/content.md>
