What is atlassian-bot? AI crawler guide

atlassian-bot by Atlassian: Atlassian Rovo crawler used to index connected website content for AI search, assistants, and agents. Check its reported user-agent, robots.txt behavior, source, and verification guidance.

Atlassian Rovo crawler used to index connected website content for AI search, assistants, and agents.

What is atlassian-bot?

atlassian-bot is the crawler for Atlassian Rovo, a product that indexes connected website content to power AI search, assistants, and agents. It is operated by Atlassian and identifies itself with the user-agent token atlassian-bot. The crawler honors robots.txt directives, so site owners can control its access through standard exclusion rules. Its activity is triggered when a customer explicitly connects a website to Rovo, rather than performing broad, untargeted crawling of the open web.

What it's for

For a site owner, a visit from atlassian-bot typically means that a customer using Atlassian Rovo has linked your site to their Rovo workspace. This allows your content to be searchable and usable within that customer's AI-powered tools. It is not a general-purpose search crawler indexing the web at large, so its presence is usually intentional and tied to a specific business relationship or use case.

Allowing atlassian-bot only creates the possibility of retrieval. To find out whether your pages are selected, measure which answer engines actually cite your pages using a stable query set.

How to handle atlassian-bot

To prevent atlassian-bot from accessing your site, add a disallow rule for the user-agent atlassian-bot in your robots.txt file. Because the bot honors robots.txt, this will stop it from crawling any disallowed paths. If you want to allow access, no action is needed unless you wish to restrict specific sections.

robots.txt rule

User-agent: atlassian-bot Disallow: /

Blocking cost

Blocking atlassian-bot may prevent your content from appearing in AI search results, answers, citations, or agent interactions within Atlassian Rovo for customers who have connected your site.

Examples

• A company's internal knowledge base is connected to Rovo by an employee; atlassian-bot crawls the allowed pages to make them searchable via Rovo's AI assistant.
• A public documentation site is linked by a Rovo user; the bot fetches pages permitted by robots.txt so that Rovo can answer questions using that content.
• A partner portal is added to a Rovo workspace; atlassian-bot respects the site's robots.txt and only indexes content that is not disallowed.

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• Robots.txt: Robots.txt is the control file used to allow or block atlassian-bot.
• Crawling: atlassian-bot is a concrete crawler example for this concept.