Summary
OpenAI and Atlassian have expanded their partnership, with OpenAI models set to power agents across Atlassian’s platform, including Rovo. The companies say Rovo can use Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph to connect AI responses to organisational work context.
OpenAI and Atlassian have expanded their partnership, with OpenAI models set to power agents across Atlassian’s platform, including Rovo. In its announcement, OpenAI said Atlassian will gain expanded access to models including GPT-6 Astra and the GPT-5.6 series. The collaboration centres on connecting those models to the work information held across Atlassian products.
How Rovo connects AI to team context
Rovo combines OpenAI models with Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, which Atlassian describes as a layer connecting people, projects, documents and decisions. The idea is to give AI agents relevant organisational context when they help teams understand or act on work, rather than relying only on information supplied in an individual prompt.
OpenAI illustrates the approach with a product manager asking whether a launch is on track. Rovo could draw together Jira tickets, Confluence documents and relevant discussions to identify blockers, missed milestones and decisions needing attention. OpenAI models would then help produce an assessment of launch readiness and possible next steps. This is an example of the intended workflow, not a reported measurement of customer outcomes.
The announcement also describes ways to connect Atlassian information to ChatGPT and Codex. Atlassian and Teamwork Graph CLI plugins can provide access to relevant project information, documentation and development context, subject to appropriate permissions. Atlassian says a recently launched plugin extension brings Jira work items, Confluence content and people into ChatGPT and Codex prompts. Atlassian Home can also surface assigned work, recent Looms, projects and Bitbucket pull requests.
What the expanded agreement adds
The new agreement extends a collaboration that began in 2023. OpenAI says the models will power agents across Atlassian’s platform and Rovo, while Atlassian will have access to newer OpenAI models as they advance. The announcement does not give a customer rollout date for that expanded model access.
The companies are also exploring deeper Jira integrations, including ways for teams to assign work to AI agents, track progress, capture decisions and review results. Atlassian says these capabilities could be paired with DX, its platform for measuring developer productivity and engineering performance, to examine measures such as development speed, cycle time and developer experience while keeping people in control. These integrations are described as exploratory.
The partnership also runs in the other direction: OpenAI says it will continue to use Jira to manage critical workflows within its own company. Atlassian reports that more than 3,000 of its developers use Codex across terminals, integrated development environments and code-review workflows. Through Atlassian plugins powered by the Teamwork Graph, those developers can access relevant work items and technical documentation while writing, testing and shipping software.