# Atlassian Rovo

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Atlassian Rovo and 43 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Rovo for quickly summarizing and searching Jira tickets and Confluence pages. Critics mostly warn about security flaws and unreliable, intrusive output.

## Why people recommend it

- Makes Jira tickets and pages easier to read (2 comments): "Rovo is usually the only way to make any sense of tickets" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188798)) "Rovo makes for an INCREDIBLE time reading jira tickets and confluence pages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196051))
- Saves time and is helpful (2 comments): "Saves me a good chunk of time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412485)) "Rovo can be helpful though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835507))

## What people warn about

- Security flaws and unsafe URL handling (4 comments): "An isolation failure in an Atlassian Rovo-orchestrated environment allowed sessions belonging to other users and tenants to be discovered, reached, and ultimately used" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833790)) "Rovo's URL retrieval tool is insecure: there are no protections against opening a URL that has been dynamically created by the agent." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186821)) "Rovo will also execute instructions hosted on external URls - they've known this for at least 6 months." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193793))
- Inaccurate, invented or erroneous output (4 comments): "most of it was “ticket description but as gherkin stories” which is good, but it made like 2-3 stories referencing a data structure and fields we were not planning on whatsoever" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233345)) "the first time I did it erased a whole page - it couldn't get the most basic instruction correct" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347727)) "It found three, regardless of how I queried it. I had actually written over sixty." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346143))
- Injected into pages, slowing browsing (2 comments): "they injected it into every single page on JIRA and Confluent which has made web browsing way slower" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192246)) "injected it into every single page on JIRA and Confluent which has made web browsing way slower" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187027))
- Training opt-in by default, hard to disable (2 comments): "Because it's impossible to disable it until you have a very certain, very expensive plan." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191639)) "opted-in all customers by default for their data to be used for model training" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194117))

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## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Atlassian Rovo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/atlassian-rovo/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).