Hey everyone,
I built a CLI tool called ajat (Atlassian Jira Automation Tool) to help with Jira Automation Rule administration.
If your team relies heavily on Jira Automation for critical processes, you've probably run into the visibility problem: it's hard to track exactly what actions are being triggered, who changed them, who owns which rule, or just how tangled the logic has gotten.
Plus, if you're in a regulated environment (ISO 9001, 27001, etc.), you need actual backup and restore procedures for your Business Continuity Plan.
ajat solves this. It handles incremental or sync backup/restores, auditing, searching, and comparing. It also generates five self-contained HTML reports based on your backups:
- Collision -> Finds overlapping and behaviorally-duplicate rules.
- Consistency -> Audits label hygiene, naming, ownership, and consistency.
- Inventory -> Catalogs every automation rule by scope.
- Risk -> Scores governance and operational risk across your setup.
- Workflow -> Renders every rule as a visual flow-diagram runbook.
I set up a fully functional 14-day trial over at climakers.com so people can actually test it out. No credit card required, just an email.
If you decide not to use it after the 14 days, nothing happens—you still get to keep all the local backups and HTML reports you generated, no strings attached.
I'd love for you to try it out and let me know what you think, or if you have any feature requests!
Here you can see some examples of use and it's commands
EXAMPLES
# Back up every Automation rule across the site into ./jira-automations backup/,
# resolving account IDs to people so reports show owners and orphans.
ajat export --output-dir ./jira-automations-backup --resolve-users
# Catalogue the estate: the organization-wide inventory report.
ajat report inventory --input-dir ./jira-automations-backup --output-file inventory.html
# Score governance & operational risk (unowned, silent-failing, …).
ajat report risk --input-dir ./jira-automations-backup --output-file risk.html
# Find overlapping and duplicated rules.
ajat report collision --input-dir ./jira-automations-backup --output-file collision.html
# Compare two backups to see exactly what changed.
ajat diff ./jira-automations-backup-monday ./jira-automations-backup-friday
# Validate credentials, reachability, and permissions end-to-end.
ajat doctor
COMMANDS
completion -> Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
config -> Manage the ajat configuration file
diff -> Diff two ajat export directories without calling the Jira API
doctor -> Verify configuration, Jira reachability, and write permissions
export -> Back up every Automation rule to local JSON (full or incremental)
help -> Help about any command
import -> Restore Automation rules from a local backup into Jira
invoke -> Fire a manually-triggered Automation rule against targets
license -> Activate, inspect, and manage the ajat license
report -> Generate self-contained HTML reports over the automation inventory
rule -> Apply bulk operations to Jira Automation rules
search -> Search live Automation rules in Jira, no export needed
support -> Generate a diagnostic bundle for support
tree -> Display the full command tree with descriptions
update -> Update to the latest release your license includes
version -> Print the ajat version
Comments and feedback are welcome!
