Get started with the Rovo Dev Agents, now in beta

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Welcome to the Rovo Dev Agents beta program!

We are excited to launch a set of agents designed to streamline and enhance your software development process across the SDLC.

Rovo Dev Agents accelerate software development by automating routine tasks from idea to deployment. This allows developers to focus on solving problems and creating impactful solutions. 

These new agents enable you and your teams to:

• Reduce time getting work ready for development by generating comprehensive technical plans.

• Automate repetitive coding tasks with specialized coding agents.

• Enhance PR quality and speed up cycles with intelligent feedback.

• Boost deployment efficiency on Bitbucket Cloud with insights that streamline builds and tests.

and more! 

Read more about Rovo Dev Agents to learn about each agent and detailed capabilities. 

For detailed instructions on how to get started, please view the instructions in the guide below. 

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Install Rovo Dev Agents on your site

1. Go to Atlassian Administration. (NOTE: You will need to be an admin to install Rovo Dev Agents. If you are not currently an admin, please inform your admin to enable the agents for your site). 

2. If you have multiple organizations, select the site you want to install Rovo Dev Agents in.

3. Select Products from the top navigation.

4. Select your site from the left side list titled 'sites and products'.

5. Select Discover more products under 'explore' in the left side bar.

6. Find Rovo Dev Agents under Code, build, and ship, and select Try it now.

7. Select I agree to install Rovo Dev Agents.

8. Once the installation is complete, select Go to Rovo Dev Agents.

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Before you start

Rovo Dev Agents send relevant code snippets to third-party LLM providers to generate responses. Before installing and using Rovo Dev Agents, check your repositories and remove any secret or sensitive information you don’t want shared.

During the beta program we retain user inputs and Rovo Dev Agent outputs to help with customer support and troubleshooting.

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Connect a source code management tool to Jira

To use Rovo Dev Agents, you must have Bitbucket Cloud or GitHub connected to your Jira site.

To use agents with Bitbucket, your workspace must be part of a premium or standard plan.

How to connect Bitbucket to Jira

How to connect GitHub to Jira

Note: Rovo Dev Agents do not currently support GitHub Cloud IP allow listing.

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Add users to Rovo Dev Agent groups

You can add users to permission groups in Rovo Dev Agents to let them perform different tasks. By default, you can:

• Add users to the rovo-dev-agents-admins group to give them product administrator access, so they can do things like activate agents in Bitbucket workspaces and GitHub organizations.

• Add users to the rovo-dev-users group to give them user access, so they can use agents like Code Planner or coding agents in Jira.

1. From the Rovo Dev Agents page, select Manage user access.
   Or, go to Atlassian Administration, select your organization, and Manage product in the Rovo Dev Agents row.

2. Select the group you want to add a user to.

3. Select Add group members.

4. Enter the users you want to add and select them from the list, then select Add users to save your changes.

If the user you want to add is not a member of your site yet, you can invite them to join. How to invite a user from Atlassian Administration

When adding or removing a user's access to Rovo Dev Agents, there might be a small delay (about 5 minutes) before the change takes effect. If you are removing a user’s access, they will still be able to access the agents during this delay.

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Feedback and support

Reach out to the Rovo Dev team in our Beta Community any assistance or queries.

We hope this guide helps you navigate the onboarding process smoothly. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our team. Welcome aboard!

Read more about Rovo Dev Agents

[Ajay _view26_]

@Tanvi Kaur , The loom video attached doesn't have audio?

[Krimo Khermane]

@Tanvi Kaur like @Ajay _view26_ I can confirm there is no audio and not even a transcript available in this loom. Could you please take a look.

[Tanvi Kaur]

@Ajay _view26_ @Krimo Khermane thank you for flagging this! I can confirm our team is looking into this and will hopefully resolve this issue soon. 

[Rogerio]

@Tanvi Kaur ,Can I using the Rovo Dev Agents from Bitbucket Community?

[Filip Míka]

Once again, you've demonstrated your mastery in creating unnecessary complexity.

As a paying Bitbucket Cloud customer, I was genuinely excited to try the new Rovo Dev Agents beta. However, despite my subscription, I quickly hit a wall: I can’t access the feature because my Bitbucket workspace isn’t “recognized” under admin section. There’s no clear, user-friendly way to link it — unless I set up an Atlassian organization, claim a domain, and jump through hoops that shouldn't be required for existing customers.

I expected that being a paying user would give me straightforward access to new features — especially those you’re promoting. Instead, I’m left chasing vague documentation, navigating disconnected admin panels, and still unable to proceed.

Unless the experience improves, I’ll seriously consider migrating to GitHub, where setup and integrations are far more streamlined and developer-friendly. It’s disheartening that this is the kind of friction that persists in your ecosystem, especially for loyal users.

Please make Rovo Dev Agents accessible to existing Bitbucket Cloud users — or at least provide a transparent, guided path to enable it.

[Rogerio]

Hi @Filip Míka, you need to enable Rovo Development Agents and wait a few minutes.
Then you can go to your Bitbucket workspace and find the Atlassian Integrations section. It is displayed (Rovo Development Agents - Beta).
Now you can enable it.

I hoped to help you.

Kind regards,

[Filip Míka]

Hi @Rogerio,

Thanks a lot for your quick response and willingness to help — I really appreciate it!

But that’s exactly the issue: I can’t enable Rovo Development Agents, because I don’t see the option anywhere.

I followed a video walkthrough and eventually figured out how to get to the “Try it now” step (even though the video doesn’t match the current UI). That leads me to “Add Rovo Dev Agents to a site”, but… I have no site to select. So I try to create a new one — and then I get hit with a “We had some technical trouble” error.

Honestly, it’s kind of insane how complex this process is. But I’m trying to stay optimistic. 😅

If you have any more concrete guidance (or a way to skip this broken "create a site" step), I’m all ears.

Thanks again!
Filip

[Christian Koschmieder de Juan]

eager to test it

[Rogerio]

Hi @Filip Míka  ,

I am a customer too, I activated the Rovo Dev Agents from here.
So, the Rovo Dev Agents have 3 agents that have a dependency to Rovo.
Then, my suggestion is enable the Rovo trial and try to enable to Rovo Dev Agents later.

Kind regards,

Rogerio

[Rob Little]

Hi. 

I'm trying to use Agents like 'Unit Test Creator' from a work item, and everything else is configured correctly... the 'Code Planner' agent works as expected... but the Agents that are supposed to interact with my repo, do not do anything and i get the following error pop up

When i check the audit logs, i'll see an entry like this

On the bitbucket side, the workplace setting 'use rovo dev agents' is enabled.  (i know this probably isn't needed, as its for Code Reviewer, Pipeline Troubleshooter, and Deployment Summarizer... but i'm just adding that i did that as well, anyway)

Thoughts on what i'm missing, or anywhere to get further logging information? 

Thanks!

[Matt Colman]

Hi @Rob Little , the Unit Test Creator is actually a template agent. You need to duplicate and edit this agent in order for it to work. You will see in the agent prompt there are "if statements" in there for you to edit / delete to get the best Unit Test Creator agent.

Sorry for the confusion. Let me know how you go! Thanks!

[Matt Colman]

Hi @Rob Little also please check that you've mentioned a repository url in either your agent or your Jira work item. If the agent cannot find a repo url it will fail.

[Rob Little]

Ahh, thanks @Matt Colman that got me further / i was able to finally run the unit test creator with this clarity.  Appreciated!   

[Tanvi Kaur]

@Filip Mika Sorry to hear about your experience, thank you for flagging! Just wanted to verify, do you have an existing Jira site connected to your BBC workspace? If you do not, this could be why you are experiencing issues. Before you install Rovo dev agents, you will need a Jira site AND connected BBC workspace. 

[Filip Míka]

Hi @Tanvi Kaur 

Thanks for the follow-up and clarification.

You're right — I didn’t have a Jira site connected to my Bitbucket workspace, which explains the issue. I also now realize I misunderstood the core concept of Rovo Dev Agents. Initially, I thought they were focused on reviewing code quality directly (similar to GitHub Copilot or code review bots). But now I see that Rovo is designed to work in the context of Jira issues, helping generate and review code based on task specifications — not on static analysis or style enforcement.

That’s on me for assuming too much, but to be fair, the messaging around Rovo (especially via announcement emails) made it easy to confuse the purpose. It would help a lot if the onboarding experience clarified upfront that:

• A Jira Software Cloud site is required,
• The agents work based on Jira task context, not just code,
• And what kind of outcomes users can actually expect.

Anyway — thanks for helping me understand what’s going on. 

[Stephen Neil]

Our development team is keen to try the Beta but our workspace is on the Community/Academic plan. Will Dev Rovo Agents become available on this plan?

[Shivam Singh]

Hi @Tanvi Kaur

I have installed Rovo Dev Agent in my test environment, where Bitbucket is on the free plan. I have enabled the Rovo Dev CLI mode, which is working well. My question is whether the Rovo Dev CLI requires any specific Bitbucket plan limitations. For instance, to activate the Code Reviewer feature in Bitbucket, we need to have either the Standard or Premium plan.

Thank you looking forward to your response.

[Rogerio]

Hi @Stephen Neil , We are also to using the this plan. I already to enable the Dev Rovo Agents and It is work.

Kind regards,

[Stephen Neil]

@Rogerio , I'm actually able to activate Dev Rovo Agents on the Community/Academic plan, but the Code Reviewer feature doesn't work and reports a Standard or Premium plan is required, since confirmed by the product teams too on a support ticket. I hope one day there may be some provision.