Rovo Skills are now available 🎉

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Rovo Skills are now live for all customers using Rovo Chat, and will soon be available to Rovo agents. This marks an exciting step in how you work with Rovo. You can now leverage a growing library of skills that encode decades of opinionated best practices for tasks across Jira, Confluence, JSM, and more.

This article explains what skills are, how to trigger them in Rovo Chat, and how they’ll keep expanding over time.

What are skills?

Skills are being adopted and developed across the industry as a way to reuse and package up instructions for agents to handle specialized tasks.

The famous analogy is that of the recipe. You can think of agent as a chef, it can do a lot of great cooking with the knowledge it has, but it needs a recipe to make specialized and consistent meals - skills are the recipe.

What’s special about Rovo Skills?

Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen all kinds of teamwork developing across the millions of teams that use our apps. Skills allow us to package up that observed best practice to make Rovo way better. How do skills help us do that? Well, skills inform behavior: they’re reusable, packaged guidance about how an agent should approach a kind of task. They encode best practices so an agent doesn’t have to rediscover it from scratch each time.

You can think of a skill as a pattern Rovo can access when it needs. A skill can:

• give Rovo the steps to take

• show Rovo what “good” looks like for that task

• turn your natural language request into consistent, reliable action.

And the best part is that they work across the whole teamwork graph including all your Atlassian or 3P connected tools to help deliver the best outcome by tapping into your complete organizational knowledge.

This is the beginning of supercharging how people work with Rovo to make their lives at work easier.

Skills in Rovo Chat: how they work

Skills are now directly available in Rovo Chat. You can invoke them in two ways:

1. Use slash commands (explicit skills)

Slash commands let you intentionally choose a specific skill when you know exactly what you want Rovo to do.

In any Rovo Chat conversation, just type a slash (/) to see available skills, or type a skill name directly:

"/write-status-update for this project over the past week"

"/create-work-items for a new onboarding experience"

"/get-data-insights about deployments by environment in the last 30 days"

"/explain-workflow for ABC-123"

"/search-assets to show me all the laptops assigned to me"

Rovo will run the chosen skill, pull in the right data (respecting your permissions along the way), and present a structured, opinionated output.

2. Ask in natural language (only available for some skills)

For some skills, you don’t need to remember the exact slash command. You can just ask Rovo in your own words, and it will find a relevant skill to run behind the scenes.

For example:

• “Summarize this release for my stakeholders and call out high‑risk work.”

• “Draft a status update for our team goal with highlights and risks.”

• “Why can’t my teammate access this Jira issue?”

• “Help me understand what happened in this incident and what to do next.”

Rovo will interpret what you need and route your request to the appropriate skill when possible. Over time, we’ll keep improving how often and how accurately Rovo does this for you.

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What’s possible

With this release, we’re shipping ~30 skills that showcase what skills can do across different parts of your workflow. A few examples:

Try some of our top skills

Status & reporting

/write-status-update generates rich status updates for work items, and projects, with highlights and risks.

/explain-workflow gets your a summary of available statuses and transitions for a work item.

When checking the workflow of a work item, Rovo can access workflow validation rules, including rules enabled by third-party apps. Rovo can also access workflow condition rules; however, Rovo can’t access any content for condition rules that identifies a user, group, permission, or custom field, and this content won’t be shown to users.

Planning & execution

/create-work-items turns ideas into structured work in Jira, including epics with child items.

Operations & incidents

/create-pir helps you structure post‑incident reviews consistently.

/find-incident-root-cause guides you through understanding what happened and why.

Analytics & insights

/get-data-insights generates charts and commentary based on Jira, JSM, CSM, Bitbucket and other connected DevOps tools, or Goals data.

Assets and inventory

/search-assets queries your Assets data (“show me all the laptops assigned to me”) and get helpful, readable results.

All skills available in March 2026

Tag	Name	Description	Best to use in/when
/write-status-update	Write status update	Provide an update on the status of work in a space	Project status meetings, team updates, Jira space view
/create-work-items	Create work items	Create multiple work items based on a project or feature you describe	Backlog grooming, project kickoff, Jira backlog view
/update-work-items	Update work items	Update work item fields like assignee, summary, descriptions, and more	Work item view, bulk editing, Jira backlog view
/get-data-insights	Get data insights	Create charts and get insights on your work	Reporting, dashboards, Jira space view
/explain-workflow	Explain workflow	Get a summary of available statuses and transitions for a work item	Work item view, workflow troubleshooting, Jira space settings
/assess-change-risk	Assess change risk	Assess technical, operational, security, and business risks for changes in Jira Service Management.	Change management, CAB review, JSM Change view
/manage-jira-workflows	Manage Jira workflows	Explain the workflow for a Jira space and perform actions in workflow's statuses, transitions and top 5 workflow rules	Workflow admin, Jira space settings, workflow troubleshooting
/manage-plan-features	Manage plan features	Manage advanced features in Jira plans	Jira plans, Portfolio planning
/add-plan-dependency	Add plan dependency	Add dependencies between work items in Jira plans	Jira Plans, Portfolio planning
/add-plan-work-source	Add plan work source	Add a work source to a Jira plan	Jira plans, Portfolio planning
/create-plan-release	Create plan release	Create a release for a Jira plan	Jira plans, release planning
/create-plan-work-item	Create plan work item	Create work items within Jira plans	Jira plans, portfolio planning
/create-program-board	Create program board	Create a program board for a Jira plan	Jira plans, program management
/query-plan	Query plan	Query and retrieve information from Jira plans	Jira plans, portfolio planning, reporting
/delete-program-board	Delete program board	Remove a program board from a Jira plan	Jira plans, program management
/remove-plan-work-source	Remove plan work source	Remove a work source from a Jira plan	Jira plans, portfolio planning
/summarize-plan	Summarize plan	Get detailed summaries of Jira plans	Jira plans, portfolio review, reporting
/summarize-focus-area	Summarize focus area	Synthesize all linked goals and work items from a focus area into a clear snapshot that shows progress, status, and risks with helpful next steps.	Jira plans, portfolio review, focus area reporting
/find-jira-settings	Find Jira settings	Get assistance finding the correct Jira admin settings for your needs	Jira admin, space settings, troubleshooting
/manage-jira-permissions	Manage Jira permissions	Detect and fix space and work item permission problems.	Jira admin, permission troubleshooting, space settings
/draft-release-notes	Draft release notes	Write release notes covering key changes in a release	Release management, product updates, Jira release view
/create-release	Create release	Create a release to package code for deployment	Release management, Jira release view
/summarize-release	Summarize release	Summarize release scope, risks, blockers, and more	Release review, reporting, Jira release view
/suggest-playbooks	Suggest playbooks	Suggest playbooks that can help mitigate, resolve, or investigate work items in Jira Service Management.	Alert triage, incident response, Jira Service Management Ops workflows
/find-alerts	Find alerts	Find alerts and their related data for an Operations team in Jira Service Management	Operations, alert triage, Jira Service Management alert list / Ops dashboard
/summarize-incident	Summarize incident	Create a comprehensive summary of a given incident in Jira Service Management	Incident review, stakeholder comms, incident handover, Jira Service Management incident view
/suggest-incident-expert	Suggest incident expert	Suggest people or teams that can help resolve incidents in Jira Service Management faster	Incident escalation, major incident response, on-call triage
/suggest-incident-fields	Suggest incident fields	Suggest field values for an incident in Jira Service Management, or mark it as major	Incident intake/triage, major incident declaration, Jira Service Management incident view
/suggest-problem-ticket	Suggest problem ticket	Suggest creating a problem ticket when an incident in Jira Service Management recurs	Problem management, recurring incidents, post-incident review
/find-similar-incidents	Find similar incidents	Find similar incidents in a given Jira Service Management space based on content similarity	Incident triage, known-issue detection, faster diagnosis
/find-incidents	Find incidents	Find incidents in a given Jira Service Management space and their related data	Ops reporting, incident queue review, incident trend analysis
/create-pir	Create PIR	Create a post incident review for an incident in Jira Service Management	Post-incident review, retrospective, incident learning
/find-incident-root-cause	Find incident root cause	Find possible root causes of an incident in Jira Service Management	Incident investigation, root cause analysis, post-incident follow-up

The above is a complete list of Rovo Skills we’re releasing this month (March 2026)—More skills to come.

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How to get started

1. Select Ask Rovo to open a Rovo Chat 

2. Type / to browse skills and pick one to try, or:

3. Ask in your own words and let Rovo decide which skill to run. (Note that routing to a skill based on a generic prompt isn’t available for all skills yet)

4. Iterate in conversation. Refine, ask follow‑up questions, or run another skill to go deeper.

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What’s next: An ever‑growing library of skills

This GA launch is the start of Rovo Skills, not the end:

Product teams across Atlassian are continually adding new skills and refining existing ones. Our skills are built on a shared platform, so improvements to one skill (or the platform itself) benefit others.

Over time, you’ll see:

• More skills for planning, execution, operations, and support.

• Better routing from your prompts to the right skill.

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[Quang Kieu]

hi @Luke Ellery , 
That's great to see it. Because there is no linked documentation, I'd like to ask some follow up questions about some skills:
- Search-assets, is this something still in development, because I can't find it yet in our site, also the list of all available skills in March 2026

- Change risk assessment: can you share details how is the risk evaluated (based on which fields, is this/prompt configurable) 

Thank you once again for the new features

[Susan Waldrip]

Hi @Luke Ellery , thanks to you and your team for these great features, and Thank You for the detailed write-up with examples!

[Michael Fedulov]

Hi @Quang Kieu, I'm PM on Assets (Cloud) and thank you for your comment! We are making final improvements to the Search-assets skill and will begin the rollout soon!

[Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_]

This is a great improvement 

[John Johnson]

This is a really exciting development! As someone who manages Instagram app alternative for Android  a platform built around enhanced Instagram tools for users  I deeply appreciate the value of packaging best practices into reusable, reliable workflows. The recipe analogy is perfect. Just like a great recipe ensures consistent results every time regardless of who is cooking, Rovo Skills ensure that complex
Jira and Confluence tasks are handled consistently without team members having to reinvent the wheel each time. The biggest challenge in any growing team is knowledge transfer  getting everyone to follow the same best practices for creating tickets, writing documentation, or managing workflows. Skills essentially solve that problem by encoding institutional knowledge directly into the AI agent. The slash command approach for explicit skill invocation is particularly smart  it gives users intentional control while the automatic detection handles the more routine tasks in the background. The fact that skills work across the entire teamwork graph including third party connected tools is what makes this truly powerful. Really looking forward to seeing how the skills library expands over time and what new use cases the community discovers. Great work from the Atlassian team! 👏🚀