Atlassian Adds AI Planning and Coding Agents to Jira for Human-Agent Workflows
Atlassian has announced a major update to Jira, introducing features designed to coordinate both human workers and AI agents within a single project management platform. The new additions include Jira Planner, which converts vague ideas into technical specifications, and a Jira Coding Agent that can be assigned work items and autonomously write code. The update also brings third-party agent integrations, automation rules for routing tasks to humans or agents, and a pre-built agentic engineering workflow template. Atlassian's move is driven by findings from its own DevEx report showing that coding-agent adoption is widespread but gains are stalling due to coordination overhead rather than execution speed. The company frames Jira not as a new tool but as an existing planning hub being extended into a control layer for mixed human-AI software teams.
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