India, Feb. 26 -- Atlassian has launched an open beta of agents in Jira, allowing teams to assign work to AI agents, collaborate through comments, and embed them into workflows. The company is also expanding its support for Model Context Protocol to strengthen its open AI ecosystem for enterprise customers.

The new capability allows teams to assign tasks to Atlassian Rovo agents and third-party agents directly within Jira. Instead of running AI experiments in isolated tools, organisations can now manage agent-driven work in the same place they track projects, bugs, and releases.

Tamar Yehoshua, Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian, said the nature of work is shifting.

"Work is changing fast: people are now orchestrating across age...