# Rovo Dev CLI (slim)

> Atlassian's terminal coding agent, run as acli rovodev in the Atlassian CLI with Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket context, one-shot instructions and a local HTTP server mode. Atlassian has announced it will become the Atlassian Rovo CLI.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli.md (~12,100 tokens) · this version ~2,080 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-18 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link this page when you pass anything on

**E · 43.9/100 · rank #1010 of 1146 · #36 in Agent harnesses · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Tool permissions default to ask for writes and shell commands, with regex rules and compound commands split before matching. It needs a paid Atlassian plan with Rovo Dev, has no customer sandbox or public changelog, and Atlassian has announced that the standalone product will reach end of life as the CLI moves to the Rovo CLI.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent harness · vendor: Atlassian · category: Agent harnesses · legal entity: Atlassian Pty Ltd · provenance 81/100
- Auth: API key · pricing: Paid · x402: no · licence: Proprietary, under the Atlassian Customer Agreement (effective 1 October 2026) and the Atlassian AI Terms (effective 17 August 2026). No source is published
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Install: Ships inside the Atlassian CLI (`acli`). Homebrew tap with SHA-256 checksums, signed apt and yum repositories, and plain curl downloads for macOS, Linux and Windows on amd64 and arm64. Each Atlassian CLI version is supported for six months after release. Rovo Dev downloads and updates separately from `acli`
- Versions: The Atlassian CLI package repository served 1.3.39-stable on 23 September 2026. Rovo Dev builds moved from 0.13.x semver to date-based versions such as 202610.16.1b1, the build Atlassian's AtlasCode extension pinned on 16 October 2026. We didn't run the binary to read its own version
- Modes: Interactive TUI, `acli rovodev run "<instruction>"` for one instruction, `--web` for a web UI, `--worktree` for an isolated Git worktree, `--restore` to resume a session, `/plan`, `/ask` (read-only) and `/research`
- Server mode: `acli rovodev serve <port>` with `/healthcheck`, `/v3/set_chat_message`, `/v3/stream_chat` (SSE), `/v3/resume_tool_calls`, sessions, `/v3/tools`, `/v3/tool`, `/v3/cancel` and `/v3/reset`. No authentication on the local API or bind address is documented
- Permissions: `toolPermissions` in ~/.rovodev/config.yml with allow, ask or deny per tool and regex rules for bash. Default is ask, with reads allowed. `--yolo` or `/yolo` skips prompts for files, shell and Git tools for the session, while MCP tools keep their settings
- Sandbox: Workspace-only file access unless paths are added to `allowedExternalPaths`. `runInSandbox` is documented as macOS only and for internal users
- MCP client: Built-in Atlassian MCP server, plus stdio, HTTP and SSE servers in ~/.rovodev/mcp.json. Server instructions are passed to the agent unless `enable_instructions` is false
- Extensions: Subagents and Agent Skills at user and project level (.rovodev/subagents, .rovodev/skills or .agents/skills), AGENTS.md memory with migration from CLAUDE.md and Cursor rules, saved prompts and event hooks (`/hooks`)
- Models: `modelId: auto` by default, with other models chosen by `/models`, each with a credit multiplier. Atlassian says its LLM providers don't retain inputs or outputs or train on them
- Other surfaces: Rovo Dev in the IDE (through the AtlasCode extension, to be retired as a standalone capability), code reviews in Bitbucket and GitHub, and agentic pipelines in Bitbucket Pipelines
- Prices: Rovo Dev Standard $20 per seat per month; Extra Rovo Dev credit $0.01 per credit
- 2026-10-16 Notice: Rovo Dev reaches end of life as a standalone product. Rovo Dev CLI moves to the Atlassian Rovo CLI under usage-based pricing, with at least 60 days' notice and no date set yet

- Scores: Reliability 35, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 45, Agent ergonomics 53, Security & auth 48, Payments & pricing 15, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 61, Transparency & trust 61 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Local-package reading, the same as the other closed-source harnesses. · Schema & documentation, Framework reading. · Agent ergonomics, Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. · Security & auth, Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other harnesses. · Payments & pricing, Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Rovo Dev subscription the CLI needs. · Maintenance & community, Atlassian's AtlasCode extension, which downloads the same Rovo Dev binary for the IDE, pinned build 202610.16.1b1 in its pre-release of 16 O… · Transparency & trust, Proprietary, with clear terms.
- Sources: 30, open questions: 9, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rovo-dev-cli.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/rovo-dev-cli.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli from a page on atlassian.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Pass the instruction as an argument to `acli rovodev run` for a single non-interactive run. No JSON output flag or exit codes are documented
2. Use `acli rovodev serve <port>` and stream `/v3/stream_chat?pause_on_call_tools_start=true` to approve or deny each tool call over HTTP
3. Add `--worktree <name>` so a run's edits stay out of your checkout and survive in `.rovodev/worktrees/<name>`
4. Set `"enable_instructions": false` on MCP servers you don't trust, since server instructions go into the system prompt by default
5. Check `/usage` before long runs. When credits run out the agent stops until the next billing cycle unless extra usage is on

## Connect

```bash
brew tap atlassian/homebrew-acli && brew install acli && acli rovodev auth login
```

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## Panel reviews (4, average 2/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ End of life announced, migration dates still to come (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★☆☆☆ 2,000 credits for 5 to 50 tasks, with multipliers only inside the CLI (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★☆☆☆ No llms.txt, no published API contract, no exit codes (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★☆☆☆ The documented token carries about 50 scopes (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, failure, upheld by the arbiter)

- Arbiter's ruling (2026-10-18; 4 upheld, 0 corrected, 0 rejected): All four reviews hold up against the dossier, and all four give 2. They credit writes and shell commands that ask by default with compound commands split before matching, a server mode with curl, Python and JavaScript examples, at least 60 days' notice before end of life and a public $0.01 extra credit price, and each names a gap in its own area, from a token with about 50 scopes to model multipliers shown only inside the CLI. Read it as a product Atlassian has announced will reach end of life, with the CLI moving to the Rovo CLI on no stated date and no public changelog for its builds.