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Atlassian Introduces Agents in Jira to Drive Human-AI Collaboration at Enterprise Scale
Atlassian strengthens its position as the place to orchestrate work across humans and AI agents TEAM Anywhere/SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Atlassian
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nAtlassian strengthens its position as the place to orchestrate work across humans and AI agents\n\n\n TEAM Anywhere/SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAtlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced the open beta of agents in Jira, bringing AI agents right where teams plan and track work. With this new capability, teams can assign work to Atlassian Rovo and third-party agents in Jira, iterate with agents in comments, and embed them directly into their workflows. As a result, agent-driven work is no longer detached and fragmented but visible, coordinated, and integrated into key business processes.\n\n\nAtlassian also announced new investments in Model Context Protocol (MCP), strengthening its position as an open ecosystem that lets customers choose the right agents and tools for their business.\n\n\n“Work is changing fast: people are now orchestrating across agents, tools, and cross-functional teams. Without clear coordination that can easily turn into chaos,” said Tamar Yehoshua, Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian. “We’re focused on helping teams turn that complexity into real productivity. With these new capabilities, we’re bringing agents into the tools and workflows customers already love and trust, and giving them an open, governed way to make those agents part of the team at enterprise scale.”\n\n\nAgents in Jira: More Work, Less Chaos\n\n\nWith agents in Jira, now in open beta, teams can turn agents from scattered one-off experiments into accountable teammates by:\n\n\n\nAssigning work to Atlassian Rovo agents and MCP-enabled third-party agents\n\n\n\n@mentioning agents in comments for iterative, in-context collaboration\n\n\n\nAdding AI agents directly into workflows so that they can design, execute, and update work with humans in the driver’s seat\n\n\n\nBecause they operate inside Jira’s existing structures, agents respect project configurations, permissions, audit trails, and approval flows, so teams can adopt AI with confidence.\n\n\nAn Open Ecosystem for AI Teammates, Powered by MCP\n\n\nAs customers bring new agentic capabilities onto their teams, MCP is a standard that gives AI agents a consistent way to access tools, data, and workflows. Atlassian is investing deeply in this open ecosystem in order to operationalize AI within existi...