What Atlassian Rovo does
The atlassian-bot user agent belongs to Atlassian's custom website connector, which crawls and indexes websites into Teamwork Graph so their content appears in Atlassian Search results and can be used in Rovo Chat and Agents. Crawling happens for sites an Atlassian organization admin has connected, starting immediately after setup, with pages appearing in search incrementally over the following hours. It indexes HTML pages and text files along with attributes such as name, URL, creation date, last update date, description, and page content, and it supports public sites as well as basic and form-based authentication.
How to control Atlassian Rovo
Target Atlassian Rovo in your robots.txt with the atlassian-bot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow Atlassian Rovo
User-agent: atlassian-bot
Allow: /Block Atlassian Rovo
User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /Atlassian publishes its crawler IP addresses at ip-ranges.atlassian.com (entries where product is rovo-crawler), and the crawler requires an explicit atlassian-bot entry in your robots.txt before it will crawl a site.
How to identify Atlassian Rovo
Temso identifies Atlassian Rovotraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
atlassian-botAtlassian Rovo FAQ
What is Atlassian Rovo?
Atlassian Rovo is Atlassian's AI search and agents product, and the atlassian-bot user agent is the crawler its custom website connector uses to index websites into Teamwork Graph. It only crawls sites that an Atlassian organization admin has connected.
How do I block Atlassian Rovo?
The crawler requires an explicit "User-agent: atlassian-bot" entry in your robots.txt to crawl at all, so omitting that entry prevents crawling, and adding "Disallow: /" under it blocks the bot outright. If you do allow it, the connector follows any specific Allow or Disallow rules you add under the atlassian-bot group.
About AI Search Crawlers
Crawlers that build the retrieval indexes behind AI search products like ChatGPT search and Perplexity. They decide which pages can be cited as sources.
Blocking these keeps your content out of the source index: AI search products can't cite pages they can't crawl.
