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Assign work to agents in Jira

This Jira announcement has been rolling out to Atlassian Cloud sites since 23 Feb 2026. Atlassian rates its impact medium, and the tracker has not flagged it for admin review.

  • Rolling out since 23 Feb 2026
  • Medium impact
Read Atlassian's release note See every change

Where the rollout is

  1. First published Done
  2. Rollout starts Done

What we would do

Agents can now take assignments, mentions, and workflow triggers in Jira, in open beta. Before teams start assigning work, decide who owns each agent, where it may act, and how its changes get reviewed.

Atlas Bench take

What changed

  1. First published by Atlassian

Atlas Bench began tracking Atlassian Cloud on 29 Oct 2026. Changes before that date are not in this history.

Source Atlassian's release note Read it on the Atlassian Community

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Where it lands

Where this change sits on the Stack

Every change is sorted onto the layer it touches first. This one lands on Agents and Automation.

L4

Agents and Automation

Rovo, Agents in Jira, Forge, MCP with Claude and Copilot, agent lifecycle, usage and cost governance.

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L3

Governance and Change

Permission architecture, audit and compliance, ITSM and change control, change management, strategic reporting and budgets.

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L2

Platform and Migration

Migration of every kind, tool consolidation, licensing, standardization, the system of work.

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L1

Identity and Access

Human and non-human identity, SSO, SCIM, least privilege, access reviews, Guard cleanup, Agent SSO readiness.

Atlassian Guard Okta

load-bearing, bottom to top

Find out what an agent would inherit.

Fixed scope. The assessment reads the three layers an agent lands on, identity, platform and governance, before anything is switched on. You get the findings, the ownership gaps, and the order to close them in.

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