Can Rovo be used as an M2M (server‑to‑server) backend, or is it limited to interactive use only?

[Mariano Tallarico _Appricity_]

Hi everyone,

We’re evaluating whether we can use Rovo as a “knowledge backend” behind an external chat (N8N + LLM), where the UI is ours but the Jira/Confluence context comes from Rovo.

From the docs, it looks like Rovo/MCP access is designed around interactive OAuth 2.x flows (browser login, user consent, short‑lived tokens) for clients like ChatGPT/Claude/IDEs, and we haven’t found any reference to:

• Rovo‑specific service accounts / service tokens / API tokens.
• OAuth ‎`client_credentials` or similar machine‑to‑machine flows.
• Official patterns for server‑to‑server integrations (e.g. from N8N or another backend).

Concrete questions:

1. Is there currently any supported way to use Rovo as a technical M2M service (via service accounts, API tokens, or ‎`client_credentials`), or is it intentionally limited to usage within the Atlassian ecosystem (UI, Forge, Automation, official Slack/extension, etc.)?
2. If not supported today, is there anything on the roadmap or any public feature requests to expose Rovo as an API consumable from external backends?

We’d really appreciate a clear confirmation so we can decide whether to keep trying with Rovo or build our own RAG/vector store instead.

Thanks in advance.

[Hernan Montes]

Hi Mariano,

I have been working with the MCP server connection myself and see a lot of things that still need to be fixed, and also, improve documentation.

To save you time, you need to follow Oauth flows, there's no direct token / user authentication against it.

Secondly, you will need to train your main LLM / AI to use the MCP, what the MCP server provides are just actions or tools to execute upon, so you will need to construct this library, ie. train your main model to use the MCP tools as needed.

Unfortunately, I don't see this MCP server as ROVO itself, it's just a set of integrations that will let you run actions against Jira - you can do the same with an API library.