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Introducing Rovo Dev CLI: AI-Powered Development in your terminal

Tanvi Kaur

Introducing Rovo Dev CLI: AI-Powered Development in your terminal

Hello Atlassian Community! 👋

We're excited to announce the release of Rovo Dev CLI in beta, a powerful new tool that brings AI-assisted development directly to your command line interface! This release marks an important milestone in making development workflows more efficient and accessible.

What is Rovo Dev CLI?

Rovo Dev is an AI agent built by Atlassian for software developers, and is now available for use directly in your terminal via the Command Line Interface (CLI). This integration brings the power of Rovo Dev’s natural language capabilities into one of the most familiar environments for developers enabling faster, smarter coding without leaving the command line.

Connect to Jira, Confluence and more

Rovo Dev integrates seamlessly with Atlassian Apps, allowing developers to leverage the full suite of Atlassian tools for project management, collaboration, and version control. With Rovo Dev CLI, you can complete Jira work items directly in the terminal, update Confluence documents effortlessly, maintain documentation, debug and understand complex codebases and more. This advancement of the Atlassian ecosystem enhances the overall development experience by providing a cohesive environment where developers can streamline their workflows and maintain productivity without switching contexts.

Why Use Rovo Dev CLI?

🚀 Boost your productivity with AI-powered assistance
💻 Stay in your terminal workflow
🤝 Connect your existing tools via MCP server
📚 Improve code quality and documentation
⏱️ Save time on routine coding tasks

Capabilities overview:

Code Generation: Get AI assistance in writing new code snippets and functions
Code Understanding: Quickly understand complex code blocks with natural language explanations
Code Reviews: Receive automated code review suggestions and improvements
Documentation Help: Generate and improve code documentation

We've prepared detailed documentation for you, which you can find right here.

How to get started:

To try Rovo Dev CLI beta for free, sign up now.

Install Rovo Dev CLI

Rovo Dev is available as an extension for Atlassian Command Line Interface (ACLI). To install Rovo Dev:

Install ACLI (or update to the latest version if you already have ACLI installed) using instructions for your OS:

Go to your Atlassian profile and create an unscoped API token by selecting Create API token.
In your terminal, to authorize with your Atlassian account, run:

acli rovodev auth login

Run this command to open Rovo Dev in interactive mode (IM):

 acli rovodev run

Activating or deactivate Rovo Dev CLI

You need Rovo Dev Agents administrator permissions to turn Rovo Dev CLI on and off. Rovo Dev CLI is automatically enabled as part of the Rovo Dev Agents beta.

It can take between 1-3 business days for settings to take effect.

Disabling Rovo Dev CLI will impact the entire organization’s access to Rovo Dev CLI at the moment, and we are still working on enabling site level control.

You will see detailed instructions in our documentation once you sign up for Rovo Dev CLI.

How to get support:

In Rovo Dev CLI IM mode, you can type /feedback which will send you to the Rovo Dev feedback forum.

Report a bug

Once you run the feedback command, you can also report a bug via our feedback form.

In the case that you are not able to run the command, you can access our feedback form directly via this link.

Note: Please you share your feedback or support related questions in our feedback forum instead of the comment section of this post.

Beta technology disclaimer

Rovo Dev in the CLI is a beta product under active development. We can only support a certain number of users without affecting the top-notch quality and user experience we are known for providing. Once we reach this limit, we will create a waiting list and continue to onboard users as we increase capacity. This product is available for free while in beta.

What's Next?

This is just the beginning! We're actively working on new features and improvements based on your experience. Keep following this space to be one of the first to see our updates.

Try It Today!

Rovo Dev is your context-aware AI teammate for the entire developer journey. Powered by Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, Rovo Dev understands your company, your projects, and your goals, and connects the dots across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Compass, and more.

Get started now

Join the group

We're eager to hear about your experience with Rovo Dev CLI. Join the group to engage with other users and members of our team.

Happy coding! 🎉

Comments

Kok Sing Hew

After running `acli rovodev run`, it says that Rovo Dev Agents is not installed on my site, even though I have already installed it. I can see that the Rovo Dev Agents appear in my Administration App directory.

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wei siren

I found that he cannot properly recognize my local environment, such as uv, git, and other commands. Why is that?

Peter Wu_w38yk9

Hi @Kok Sing Hew

Thank you for trying our latest product.

Can you help to use this form to send us the following details? We will look into it.

OS and version
Shell (i.e. Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
ACLI version "acli --version"
Rovo Dev version "acli rovodev --version"
Rovo Dev log details from ~/.rovodev/rovodev.log
Site url

Thank you.

Peter Wu_w38yk9

Hi @wei siren

Thank you for trying our latest product.

Can you help to use this form to send us the following details? We will look into it.

OS and version
Shell (i.e. Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
ACLI version acli --version
Rovo Dev version acli rovodev --version
Rovo Dev log details from ~/.rovodev/rovodev.log
Site url
Repro steps

Thank you.

Phuc Nguyen_x6d4yp

For operations that require human intervention, it is current stuck. E.g: I asked Rovo to combine the two recent commits. It is right about using interactive rebase. But it is not showing me the editor to decide what to do with each commit.

I understand this kind of action is complex and asking for human's intervention makes sense. Screenshot 2025-06-17 at 17.21.22.png

Prashant_v8vxz4

It keeps on asking permission to execute commands even after opting for "always allow". Any config change where it goes into Auto mode?

Tanvi Kaur

Hi @Prashant thank you for trying out Rovo Dev CLI! Please use this form to add more details about your question and our team will try our best to look into it and get back to you.

Jeremiah Harvey_5ux9ve

@Prashant Yes, just open `~/.rovodev/config.yml` and set

```

toolPermissions:
allowAll: true

```

Yogesh Mude_7rfz63

Even tho i have provided required email and API token still its not authenticating and getting authentication failed error...Any suggestions.

Prashant_v8vxz4

@Jeremiah Harvey Thank you.

I have one more question to the team here. Quite often, it shows “Failed to generate an LLM response.” When I reinitialise it, it can’t pick up from where it left off. Instead, it goes through the same steps again, trying to reload the context and reverify the code?

Harsh223

Well, I basically get

ERROR | rovodev.common.dynamic_config:_get_config:93 - Failed to retrieve dynamic user config after multiple retries.

Along with

╭─ Error ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Failed to connect to the Rovo Dev API, please try again later. │
│ │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Any solutions?

Yogesh Mude_7rfz63

Just to update, i was using incorrect API token and using the correct token i am able to authenticate successfully.

Shivs

rovodev cannot recognize node/ npm. its added to my system path and working in powershell/ cmd. filled the form with the additional details. Please suggest next steps.

wen zhang_fjixwd

Request error: Client error '403 Forbidden' for url 'https://api.atlassian.com/rovodev/v2/credits/check'

For more information check: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/403. Retrying...

markt2001

Installed today and so far looking great!

Some questions however:
How secure is our data when using rovo dev CLI?
Eg: can it read our local private files (like 'env.py') that aren't tracked by git or stored in bitbucket cloud?
Does it train on our codebase and make that training data available to other rovo users?

Yogesh Mude_7rfz63

Was trying to create a workitem on my cloud instance thru rovodev CLI, what sontent should be added to the JSON file? anybody has the example file.

unknown

I get this error no matter what I do .✗ Error: authentication failed

Ajay _view26_

Worked like a charm.. Thanks for the brilliant post!

Taner Adak

I always get this error when it is tying to create a file, day night time doesnt matter at all.

If it helps: I use windows.

this is from my powershell:

╭─ Network connection issue ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮

│ │

│ Network connectivity issue detected, trying fallback model. │

│ │

╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮

│ An unexpected error occurred, exiting. │

Exception ignored in: <async_generator object HTTP11ConnectionByteStream.__aiter__ at 0x000001CAA4060B40>

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "httpcore\_async\http11.py", line 340, in __aiter__

File "httpcore\_synchronization.py", line 203, in __init__

File "httpcore\_synchronization.py", line 30, in current_async_library

File "sniffio\_impl.py", line 93, in current_async_library

sniffio._impl.AsyncLibraryNotFoundError: unknown async library, or not in async context

unknown

Alex_xrcorf

Terrible non stop errors even when doing trivial code from yesterday

Alexander Knott

Hey there! I tried this out on a rather big project I am working on with
claude-code yesterday. The ui is sick and generally the model handles tool calls
and editing just as good as the anthropic version.

One thing I noticed pretty quickly is that Rovo will not create todos for itself.
That is probably the most powerful feature in claude-code and helps the AI
not loose track of what it is supposed to do. Maybe think about adding that?

Ashiqur Rahman_zdfmks

i dont know why. but it say the authentication is failed. even i after double check the credential

Alexander Knott

Another thing I noticed is copying out stuff the AI writes...

Based on my exploration of the codebase, here's a comprehensive explanation of │
│ the builder crate: │
│ │
│ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ │
│ ┃ Builder Crate Explanation ┃ │
│ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ │
│ │
│ The builder crate is a core component of the sps2 package management system, │
│ responsible for building packages from YAML recipes with isolated environments, │
│ dependency management, and SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) generation. │
│ │

...ends up like this because of the nice looking bars. Not too bad, just mildly annoying sometimes.

Alexander Knott

For now I am back to claude-code the results this gets me are just not there yet. I think implementing todos similar to what claude does would elevate this enough to give it another try.

+ maybe a way to set thinking budget explicitly (if that is not already there?)

hashira Tech

Can an one direct me to a solution. I have provided required email and API token still its not authenticating and getting authentication failed error...Any suggestions. Screenshot from 2025-06-22 18-08-39.png

Daniel Comer_gmpaiv

i too am having the auth error - using my email i signed up with and the api key i created on https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens - im following instructions from https://velocitywave.atlassian.net/dev-agents/rovo-dev-cli

not sure where I'm going wrong or if there's some issues.

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Ram Subramaniyan

Hey Atlassian

I have got Rovo Code up and running with no issues with authentication or setting it up. I am quite impressed with the responses and the way the agent autonomously does things even without full and clear instructions. I just tried out a simple (for now) MVP functional full stack React with Vite + Python Fast api. With minimal inputs and no back n forth - it set up authentication to db integration (Postgres in my case) to docker and all. Although at first these agents living in terminals are quite intuitive (in a nice way) i mean there are no distractions with lines of codes running in IDEs ending up with several errors that needs back n forth. I was quite surprised it did not miss out anything causing silly syntax errors but with a very few hiccups.

Things i like the most: ease of setup, token usage, to the point questions and responses, gets me the latest info from out there as well and above all 20M token every day! Hope it stays the same Lol.

But then no direct image support for now? how about a bit more transparency in terms of function calling flow, any orchestration behind the scenes, etc?

This is where I am stopping for now. I also see the UI with basic functionalities of my AI buddy tutor that was developed is quite impressive. Yet to try git integration from the terminal directly.

Thanks, Ram

saleh DZ

╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
PS C:\Users\Informatics> .\acli.exe rovodev --restore

███████ ██████ ██ ██ ██████ ██████ ███████ ██ ██
██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
██████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ █████ ██ ██
██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
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Welcome to Rovo Dev (beta), Atlassian's AI coding agent.

Here are some quick tips:

• Ask Rovo Dev anything in your own words - from "explain this repo" to "add unit tests".
• Type "/" at any time to see available commands.
• Use CTRL+C to interrupt the agent during generation.
• Use /exit to quit.

Working in C:\Users\Informatics

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ An unexpected error occurred, exiting. │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ To resume your session, restart Rovo Dev CLI with the --restore flag. i run the flug but the same unexpected error

Aniket Waliyan

Everytime I'm trying to build anything, getting Network connectivity issue detected, trying fallback model.

Screenshot 2025-06-23 at 7.53.15 AM.png

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