BluBees Beta is live: here's what's in it

[Soumya Menon]

An update from the BluBees team on our Beta release and what it means for Jira automation.

A few months ago we introduced ourselves here when we launched BluBees on the Marketplace. Today we're back with our biggest update yet; our Beta release is live, and we're now working closely with select teams to test and refine the platform ahead of General Availability.

I wanted to share what's in it, because some of these capabilities, particularly the MCP support, feel genuinely significant for anyone building or using automation in the Atlassian ecosystem.

What's in the Beta release

The headline addition is native MCP Tool Support. Model Context Protocol is the open standard for AI-to-tool communication, and with native support in BluBees, our AI Agents can now connect to any application that exposes an MCP server, without a pre-built Connector, without custom integration work. Configure multiple MCP servers simultaneously, and your Agents can reach tools that weren't previously in the BluBees Connector library.

For Forge builders specifically: because BluBees runs natively on Atlassian Forge, the MCP integration sits inside the Atlassian cloud boundary. Because BluBees runs natively on Atlassian Forge, all MCP communication happens within the Atlassian cloud boundary, controllable at the MCP server level. That's a meaningful advantage for enterprise and government teams where data sovereignty is non-negotiable.

The rest of the release:

• New AI models: DeepSeek and Anthropic Claude added natively alongside OpenAI GPT-4o and Google Gemini; four models, choose per Agent per Flow 
• Webhook Node: trigger any external system from any point in a Flow, capture the response, and pass it downstream, also enables Flow-to-Flow invocation 
• Visual Conditional Route Builder: define rules that evaluate data at runtime, handle missing or unexpected values dynamically, and build Flows that adapt to real-world data 
• TestRay Gateway: generate TestRay API tokens and connect directly within BluBees on the same Atlassian instance 
• Canvas overhaul: Live Log download, Draft/Active status labels, Tile View dashboard, and a right-click context menu on every node, built to make the platform accessible to non-technical users 

A note on where we are

Beta for us means we're in active testing with select teams, watching how the platform performs in real workflows and iterating accordingly. We're not yet at General Availability, but the platform is stable and the capabilities are production-ready for Beta participants.

If you're interested in joining the Beta cohort or want to know more, visit https://www.blubees.ai/ or download the app from the Atlassian Marketplace or reach out directly. And as always, if you're building on Forge and want to compare notes on the MCP implementation or anything else, happy to continue the conversation here.

For other Forge builders in the community, are you seeing MCP come up in enterprise customer conversations yet? Curious whether the governance angle is resonating or whether teams are still getting to grips with what MCP actually is.

[Erick Miranda Márquez]

Hi @Soumya Menon 

Incredible app! I'm impressed by all the features included. Thanks for the update. I'm pretty sure I will test it soon.