Talk to the Foundation agent
Once Rovo is enabled on your site, the Foundation agent appears in Rovo Chat and in contextual Rovo panels inside Jira. Talk to it the way you’d brief a new team member: describe what you want, let it propose, then confirm.
The agent works on top of the same lens and Jira permissions as the UI. It can only do what you would be able to do yourself.
Open Rovo Chat
Section titled “Open Rovo Chat”- In Jira, open the Rovo sidebar (sparkle icon in the top bar).
- Ask for the Foundation agent, or start a conversation with Rovo and it will route Foundation-related requests to the agent automatically.
Example prompts
Section titled “Example prompts”- Build me a lens for the MKT project grouped by epic.
- Show me every story in the Q2 Roadmap that’s overdue and unassigned.
- Move all
In Progressstories in the Platform lens toDonefor issues that closed in Jira last week. - Summarize the status of the Mobile program for the exec readout.
Read-only vs. write actions
Section titled “Read-only vs. write actions”- Read-only actions (summaries, queries, health checks) run without a confirmation prompt. You get the answer and move on.
- Write actions (creating lenses, updating fields, deleting rows) always show a plan first. Review what the agent wants to do, then click Run or Cancel.
This is intentional: read-only conversations stay fluid; write actions never happen by accident.
Live UI updates
Section titled “Live UI updates”When the agent changes data, Foundation uses Forge Realtime to push the updates into any lens open in your browser. You don’t need to refresh — new rows, edits, and deletes appear in place.
- Start small. Ask the agent to show you something before asking it to change anything.
- Give the agent a lens name or a Jira project key in your prompt — it disambiguates faster when you’re specific.
- If a write action fails a permission check, the agent explains why and doesn’t leave the lens in a half-updated state.