Atlassian Forge Skills

Atlassian Forge lets you build and deploy apps directly on the Atlassian platform - issue panels, Confluence macros, dashboard gadgets, and more. The Forge Skills Plugin bundles several Forge-focused skills plus MCP-backed tooling so your agent can scaffold apps, review them before deploy, debug production issues, and stay current on Forge APIs and the Atlassian Design System.

What's included

Skills

The plugin ships multiple skills under skills/, each with a SKILL.md the host can load:

Forge App Builder (skills/forge-app-builder/) guides scaffolding through production: forge create, dev spaces and templates, deploy and install, module selection, cross-product scopes, and common CLI or permission issues.

Forge App Review (skills/forge-app-review/) supports pre-deploy review and audits: security, architecture, cost and invocation efficiency, performance, and trigger or scheduling waste.

Forge Cost Optimizer (skills/forge-cost-optimizer/) helps reduce Forge platform consumption across invocations, storage, logs, memory, triggers, API calls, and frontend/backend boundaries.

Forge Debugger (skills/forge-debugger/) supports systematic troubleshooting when something breaks: forge / deploy errors, resolver failures, blank or missing UI, scopes and permissions, and apps that “stopped working” in Jira or Confluence.

Forge Connector (skills/forge-connector/) guides building graph:connector apps that ingest external data into Atlassian's Teamwork Graph, making it searchable in Rovo Search and surfaced in Rovo Chat.

Forge Security Review (skills/forge-security-review/) performs white-box Forge app security audits with rule-driven checks for authz, injection, tenant isolation, secrets handling, egress/remotes, web triggers, and optional static-analysis workflows.

Forge MCP Server

Gives your agent access to up-to-date Forge documentation, template registries, module configuration, manifest syntax, and UI Kit/backend API guides -- so its knowledge stays current rather than relying on training data.

ADS MCP Server

Provides Atlassian Design System lookup for Custom UI apps: component discovery, token reference, and icon search via the @atlaskit library.

Component	What it adds	Examples
Forge App Builder skill	Scaffold, deploy, install, module choice, CLI workflows	forge create, environments, cross-product scopes
Forge App Review skill	Pre-deploy review: security, cost, architecture, triggers	Audit before release, reduce invocations, find misconfigurations
Forge Cost Optimizer skill	Reduce Forge platform consumption and avoid waste	Invocations, storage writes, logs, memory, triggers
Forge Debugger skill	Diagnose deploy, runtime, UI, and permission issues	Logs, blank panels, resolver errors, missing app in UI
Forge Connector skill	Ingest external data into Teamwork Graph / Rovo	graph:connector, setObjects, Rovo Search, Rovo Chat
Forge Security Review skill	White-box security audits and exploitability reporting	AuthZ bypasses, injection, tenant isolation, static analysis workflows
Forge MCP Server	Live Forge documentation and tooling	Template lookup, manifest syntax, UI Kit guides, backend API reference
ADS MCP Server	Atlassian Design System lookup	Component discovery, token reference, icon lookup (Custom UI only)

Prerequisites

Before you install, make sure you have:

• An Atlassian account
• Node.js 22+ (node -v) — required for Forge CLI and app builds
• Python 3 available on your PATH (used by helper scripts)

Install

Claude Code

/plugin install forge-skills@atlassian-forge-skills

Cursor

The Forge Skills plugin can be installed directly from the Cursor Marketplace

Or by running the following command in chat with a Cursor agent:

/add-plugin forge-skills

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/atlassian/forge-skills

GitHub Copilot CLI

copilot plugin install atlassian/forge-skills

OpenAI Codex

Install the Forge Skills marketplace:

codex plugin marketplace add atlassian/forge-skills --ref main

Then install the plugin:

codex plugin add forge-skills@atlassian-forge-skills

Start a new Codex thread after installing so the Forge skills and MCP servers are loaded.

To refresh the marketplace after updates:

codex plugin marketplace upgrade atlassian-forge-skills
codex plugin add forge-skills@atlassian-forge-skills

Rovo Dev

Rovo Dev doesn't currently support plugin installations but you can install the skills and MCP servers separately.

Install the skills:

npx skills add atlassian/forge-skills

Then run acli rovodev mcp to edit your MCP configuration in your default editor. Add the details from .mcp.json.

Restart Rovo Dev for the skills and MCP to be available.

Verify the installation

After install, try four quick checks.

1. Verify the skill layer

Ask:

Build me a Jira issue panel that shows customer support tickets.

You should get a structured Forge workflow: developer space discovery, template selection, forge create, code customization, and deployment -- not just generic code snippets.

Optionally confirm the other skills are available:

• Review: e.g. “Review my Forge app for security and unnecessary trigger invocations before I deploy.”
• Debug: e.g. “My Forge issue panel is blank after deploy -- help me trace it.”
• Security: e.g. “Run a white-box security review on this Forge app and include CVSS-scored findings.”

2. Verify Forge MCP

Ask:

What Forge templates are available for Confluence macros?

You should get a tool-backed response from the Forge documentation, not a hallucinated list.

3. Verify ADS MCP (Custom UI only)

Ask:

What Atlaskit components should I use for a data table?

You should get a response backed by the Atlassian Design System, with specific component names and import paths.

4. Verify Forge Connector skill

Ask:

I want to ingest data from an external project management tool into Rovo Search using a Forge connector app. Where do I start?

You should get a structured walkthrough covering graph:connector app setup, setObjects ingestion, required scopes, and how the data surfaces in Rovo Search and Rovo Chat -- not a generic Forge tutorial.

Prompts to try

Once the plugin is installed, try prompts like these:

• Create a Jira issue panel that shows related support tickets from an external API.
• Build a Confluence macro that embeds an interactive chart with bar, line, and pie options.
• Add a Jira dashboard gadget that summarizes open issues grouped by priority.
• Create a Confluence macro that reads Jira issues assigned to me and displays them in a table.
• My forge create keeps failing with "Prompts can not be meaningfully rendered" -- help!
• Deploy my Forge app to my staging site.
• What scopes do I need for a Confluence app that also reads Jira data?
• Review my Forge app for cost and security before production.
• Run a white-box security audit of this Forge app and focus on authz bypass and web trigger abuse.
• forge deploy fails with [error] -- what should I check?

What you get

Component	Default location	Purpose
Forge App Builder	skills/forge-app-builder/	Create, deploy, install; helper scripts and tests
Forge App Review	skills/forge-app-review/	Pre-deploy review and audits (SKILL.md, README)
Forge Cost Optimizer	skills/forge-cost-optimizer/	Reduce Forge platform consumption across invocations, storage, logs, and memory
Forge Connector	skills/forge-connector/	Build graph:connector apps; ingest data into Teamwork Graph (SKILL.md, README)
Forge Debugger	skills/forge-debugger/	Troubleshooting and diagnostics (SKILL.md, README)
Forge Security Review	skills/forge-security-review/	White-box security audits with rule assets (SKILL.md, README, assets/)
MCP config	.mcp.json	Forge MCP Server and ADS MCP Server configuration
Plugin manifests	.cursor-plugin/, .claude-plugin/, .codex-plugin/, plugin.json, gemini-extension.json	Per-host plugin metadata and MCP wiring

Authentication

The Forge CLI handles authentication:

forge login

You will be prompted for your Atlassian email and an API token. Enter credentials only in your terminal -- never paste tokens into chat.

Verify you are logged in:

forge whoami

Troubleshooting

The agent is not using Forge skills

• Make sure the plugin installed successfully in your host
• Confirm the skills/ directory includes forge-app-builder, forge-app-review, forge-debugger, forge-connector, and forge-security-review (each with a SKILL.md where applicable)
• Reload or restart your host so it re-indexes plugins and MCP configuration

MCP tools are not showing up

• Check that the Forge MCP entries were added for your host
• Restart MCP servers or reload the host after configuration changes
• Verify Node.js is installed (node -v)

Forge commands fail with auth errors

• Re-run forge login
• Create a new API token at id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens
• Make sure the correct developer space is selected

forge create fails

• "Prompts can not be meaningfully rendered": Run forge create in an interactive terminal
• "No developer spaces found": Create one at developer.atlassian.com/console
• "forge: command not found": npm install -g @forge/cli

Learn more

• Forge documentation
• Forge CLI reference
• Atlassian Design System
• Forge community

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

Apache 2.0