Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents
Atlassian Corp. today announced it is expanding Jira with updates that will help developers prepare, distribute and track work performed by artificial intelligence agents.
The company’s new Jira Planner helps turn incomplete project ideas into technical specifications, while its Jira Coding Agent and integrations with third-party agents transform work items into requests. With automation rules and an agentic engineering template, teams can design workflows where agents are assigned work as projects move through the platform.
The idea behind the updates is to position Jira as the place where developers go to organize and prepare, dovetailing with the agentic AI coding boom. Coding-agent adoption is already widespread, but Atlassian sees the resulting improvements beginning to plateau as planning and coordination become a bottleneck.
“We need a solution rather than a tool,” said Head of Engineering for DevAI Ming Wu. “We need a solution across the entire software development lifecycle journey to actually address different pain points.”
