🚀 Rovo Dev Agent and the Forge Quest

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I know I’m a bit late to the party — but I finally finished the first Forge Quest.

Since I’ve been working with Forge for quite a while, I set myself a special challenge:
👉 Don’t write any code myself.

Instead, I let the Rovo Dev Agent in the Atlassian CLI do all the heavy lifting.

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Why share this here?

You might think: “But this isn’t the Atlassian Developer Community…”
And you’re right.

Still, I believe admins and managers should also know about the advantages of using AI-powered tools for coding. Because the possibilities go far beyond “just writing code.”

Here are my key learnings 👇

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👍 What worked really well

• 💬 Explanations: The agent explained every step it took and even suggested next actions.

• ✅ Permissions: It explicitly asked for approval before writing code.

• 🔗 CLI integration: Forge CLI was included seamlessly.

• 🛠️ Flexibility: I could still use git and other terminal commands in parallel.

• 🔑 Scopes: When I added Jira API calls, the agent automatically updated the manifest with the required scopes.

• 🤝 Code improvements: It suggested meaningful improvements — and combining this with the Rovo PR Reviewer was a great match.

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👀 Where it could improve

• 📝 Sometimes the agent did more than I asked for, e.g. extending commit messages or adding unnecessary code. But it was able to roll back changes once asked for.

• 📚 Some info was outdated — for example, it insisted that UI Kit can’t call Jira APIs, which is no longer true. But after a while I convinced it 

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🧭 My takeaway

I know these were relatively simple tasks that I could have written faster by hand. But the fact that the Dev Agent handled them so smoothly is impressive.

Next, I want to try this approach on more complex requirements and see how far it can go.

(By the way, I used the ChatGPT 5 model for this experiment.)

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🤔 Over to you

Have you tried the Atlassian CLI with Rovo Dev Agents yet?
What’s your experience — and what use cases would you like to see supported?

Let’s exchange stories!

[Martin Cleaver]

Very cool,  Paul.

The Agentic model of software engineering is inevitable. 

[Mel Paisley]

Thanks for sharing your experience with Forge Quest and Rovo Dev!