☀️ Sherif-sclusive: Atlassian AI & Rovo Updates (August)
Welcome to the August deep dive on the latest AI-powered Rovo features across your Atlassian apps.
From Compass support in Atlassian MCP Server to smarter Rovo Search and visibility into Rovo connector health statuses, this update is packed with improvements.
Let’s take a look! 👇
🔵 1. Compass joins Atlassian’s MCP Server
Compass is now part of Atlassian’s MCP Server so you can integrate your favorite LLMs and AI Agents to manage services with natural actions like:
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Create: “Create a service component based on the current repository.”
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Bulk create: “Import components and custom fields from this CSV/JSON.”
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Query: “What depends on the api-gateway service?”
Learn more: Getting started with the Atlassian Remote MCP Server | Compass-workflows
🔵 2. Easier discovery with improved Rovo Search
Rovo is one step ahead, suggesting prompts based on your history to help you discover the most critical work.
🔵 3. Zero in on search results with space filters
Based on customer feedback, you can now filter search results to your most-used spaces, helping you find the right content faster and with less noise.
🔵 4. Rovo connector improvements: from Smart Links to new full integrations
We’ve rolled out powerful connector updates to help you unlock AI-powered experiences across all your organizational knowledge:
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8 new Smart Link connectors - Rovo now automatically searches across links you paste in Atlassian apps from SharePoint, Slack, Lucid, Dropbox, DocuSign, GitLab, Notion, and Azure DevOps—no setup required. Quickly find your documents, notes and more. Learn more: Search with smart links
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2 new Rovo connectors - Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar are now fully searchable and integrated across Atlassian apps, so you can easily find events and context alongside your work.
- PDF search support - One of your top requests—Rovo can now search inside PDFs stored in Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box, so you can quickly find the information you need. See supported file types.
- Data Center connector - Now available for Confluence 9.2 LTS (Long Term Support, with extended support, stability and predictability) so your search results are more relevant and actionable. Learn more: Rovo Connector for Confluence Data Center now available on 9.2 LTS!
🔵 5. See Rovo connector status instantly
Based on admin feedback, we’ve added real-time health visibility for connectors in the Atlassian Admin portal. Clear statuses like Syncing, Action Required, and System Issue make it easier to spot issues, troubleshoot quickly, and keep information flowing without disruption.
Learn more: Rovo Connectors now display health statuses!
🔵 6. Connect private sites to Rovo Search
Rovo’s web crawler now supports Basic Authorization, letting you index and search private websites that require login credentials—not just public pages. This unlocks a new layer of secure data access and automation.
Learn more on Connect custom website to Rovo The screenshot below shows the setup in Admin Hub:
🔵 7. Instantly turn Confluence or Loom links into Jira descriptions
Paste a Confluence page or Loom video into a Jira issue description, and Rovo will generate a structured, detailed summary—saving you from manual copy-paste and giving your team the context they need.
🔵 8. Create Jira work items automatically from Confluence or Loom links
Drop a Confluence or Loom link into backlog inline create, and Rovo will suggest Jira work items with summaries and descriptions—making backlog grooming faster and easier.
🔵 9. Dashboard Insights available as part of Home Dashboards Beta
Participants in the Home Dashboards open beta can now use Dashboard Insights to understand their data better. Using Rovo, you can ask questions to interact with your charts and dashboards, spot trends and anomalies, and speed decision-making.
Learn more: Dashboard Insights now available in Home Dashboards!
🔵 10. Speed incident response with third party observability in RovoDev CLI
You can now connect third-party MCPs like New Relic and Dynatrace through RovoDev CLI, giving Ops teams direct access to metrics, logs, and traces alongside their Atlassian workflows. This means less context switching, richer data for AIOps, and smoother collaboration across your operations stack.
Learn more: Resolve JSM ITOps Incidents Faster with Rovo Dev CLI & Observability MCP integration Use advanced Rovo Dev CLI features
🔵 11. Manage all your AI agents in one place
With the new “Agents” view in Rovo Studio, you can now see all the agents you’ve created in one place—making it simple to review, update, or remove agents as your needs evolve.
🔵 12. Automate Confluence workflows with Smart Buttons
Trigger Rovo Agents directly in Confluence with Automation Smart Buttons. Generate PRDs, apply templates, automate docs, and publish structured outputs—all with one click. This eliminates manual work, speeds up execution, ensures consistency, and unlocks scalable AI-powered workflows.
Learn more: https://www.loom.com/share/052ec25ce0cb4a0fb13bbae677143b78
🔵 13. Search faster with the Rovo browser shortcut
Available via the Rovo browser extension, type rovo + space in your browser’s address bar to search with Rovo instantly—no need to open Atlassian apps first. Hit backspace anytime to return to your normal web search.
Download Rovo browser extension today
🔵 14. Rovo Search is now smarter
Rovo Search keeps getting incrementally better month over month. In August, we improved the ranking model with pairwise loss training, which means Rovo can now better compare and rank similar documents, so the most relevant results appear first.
Learn more: How Atlassian continuously improves Rovo Search quality
✨ That’s a wrap! We’re excited to see how you put these new features to work. Got a favorite?
Questions? Drop them in the comments - we’d love to hear from you!
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