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Can a custom Rovo agent read the current page like the base agent does?

Laura Fuster

Hello,

From the Chrome extension, the base agent reads the current page (including non-Atlassian pages like Intercom) and answers questions about it. A custom agent invoked from the same extension, on the same page, gets no page context.

Is there a setting to let a custom agent inherit the same current-page context?

Thanks

Accepted answers

Arkadiusz Wroblewski

Hello @LFU

Rovo Chat and custom agents just don't handle tab context the same way. While the base chat easily reads your active Intercom page, custom agents don't automatically inherit live tabs. Hm, try that: "Use current tab as context" is enabled in your extension settings, and try forcing it in your prompt: "Use the current tab as context and analyze this with [Agent Name]." Then look then how it behaves. ?

Best,

Arkadiusz🤠

Rebekka Heilmann (viadee)

Just a comment for everyone reading along, as I was confused by the question at first: If you open Rovo within Atlassian Tools and open a custom Agent in Chat, it handles context just the same as plain Chat.

The difference only applies to the Browser extension

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Arkadiusz Wroblewski

Hello @LFU

Best,

Arkadiusz🤠

Laura Fuster

Hello @Arkadiusz Wroblewski

Thank you for your answer unfortunately it still doesn't work

Best,

Laura

Rebekka Heilmann (viadee)

The difference only applies to the Browser extension

Arkadiusz Wroblewski

@Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_ @LFU

At the moment, there are still many limitations and differences in how extensions pass the current page context to the basic chat versus custom agents.

That is why the behavior can differ depending on whether you use the standard Rovo chat or a custom agent.

I saying all the time, we Experiencing now Development on "Living Body" as pretty much every day something is changing.

Dr Valeri Colon (Connect Centric)

@LFU welcome to the community. Your testing confirms the important distinction: this is specific to the browser extension. Standard Rovo Chat can use the current webpage as context, but I can’t find a documented capability or setting that passes that same live page context to a custom agent. So this appears to be a current extension/custom-agent limitation rather than something you’re missing in the configuration.