jira-orchestrator

Request, view, and process approvals (pr, deploy, release, issue)

**PHASE 1:** Parse & validate operation, target, action

Create feature branch with Jira issue key naming and auto-transition

Process multiple existing commits and send aggregated updates to Jira

Cancel ongoing Jira issue orchestration and save checkpoint for resume

Generate conventional commit templates from Jira issue context with smart commits

Create git commit with Jira smart commit syntax for automatic issue updates

Generate compliance reports, track controls, export audit evidence, and manage exceptions for SOC2, GDPR, and ISO27001

Read, write, sync, create, or link Confluence pages to Jira issues

Agent council review using blackboard pattern for comprehensive PR analysis

Create a new modular Harness repository with full infrastructure scaffolding (Helm, Terraform, K8s), concise README with Confluence links, and Jira integration. Interactive by default.

Track deployment, update Jira with status, timestamps, metadata

Publish documentation to external platforms (GitHub Wiki, API docs, GitBook, Notion, README updates, blog posts)

Generate documentation for completed Jira issue work with Confluence sync

Enterprise features - notifications, approvals, portfolio, compliance, exports

Query event sourcing system for audit trails, time-travel debugging, and state reconstruction

Export Jira issues and generate reports in multiple formats with templates and scheduling

Review pull requests in Harness Code repositories with Claude-powered analysis and Jira synchronization.

Infrastructure management - create repos, deploy, manage pipelines

Manage git hooks for Jira smart commit integration. Auto-prepend issue keys, validate smart commits, process commands.

Access AI-powered predictive analytics, smart prioritization, and learning insights

[DEPRECATED] Use /jira:pr --iterate instead

Generate real-time metrics dashboard with SLA tracking, agent performance, and throughput analysis

Manage notifications, webhooks, channels, and subscriptions

Execute advanced orchestration patterns including Blackboard, Circuit Breaker, Dynamic Replanning, and Saga patterns

Analyze issue and create PR delivery strategy before coding

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[DEPRECATED] Use /jira:pr --fix instead

Create, fix, or iterate on pull requests for Jira issues

Analyze task, decompose into subtasks, enrich with details, create TDD draft

Process pending worklogs and post them to Jira

Review QA tickets - improve content, create docs, respond to comments

Generate quality intelligence report with tech debt analysis, health scoring, and predictive insights

Invoke structured reasoning frameworks with mandatory documentation lookup.

Multi-project release planning, coordination, and execution with automated release notes, go/no-go decisions, and rollback management

Comprehensive code review with security, performance, quality, and accessibility analysis

Interactive setup wizard v7.5.0 - OAuth auth, Neon PostgreSQL, Redis, Temporal workflows

One command to ship - intelligent question gathering, prepare, code, PR, and council review

Monitor SLA status, configure SLA rules, generate SLA reports, and analyze SLA breaches

Automated sprint planning with capacity calculation, backlog prioritization, and velocity-based commitment

Sprint planning, metrics, and quality - consolidated command for all sprint operations

Monitor active Jira orchestration sessions and track sub-agent progress across all phases

Bi-directional sync - pull Jira details, push local progress, detect & resolve conflicts

Team and resource management - capacity, skills, workload, burnout, and forecasting

Analyze issue to determine optimal workflow path

Orchestrate Jira issue work - parallelize sub-issues, assign experts, execute 6-phase protocol, document via Harness

Implements sophisticated orchestration patterns including Blackboard, Circuit Breaker, Dynamic Replanning, Hierarchical Decomposition, and Saga patterns for resilient multi-agent coordination

Dynamic agent discovery and routing - queries main registry to select specialized code agents based on Jira context, file patterns, and task keywords

Multi-level approval workflow orchestrator with gates, escalation rules, delegation, and comprehensive audit trails for PR, deployment, and release approvals

Process multiple commits in batch with time aggregation and comment deduplication

Processes bulk Jira operations with intelligent batching, rate limiting, rollback support, and comprehensive progress tracking

Imports issues from CSV, Excel, and JSON files with field mapping, validation, duplicate detection, and comprehensive error handling

Linear step-by-step reasoning agent for sequential problem solving. ALWAYS queries Context7 for documentation before reasoning about any library, framework, or API.

Manage incremental draft PRs during CODE phase when splitting strategy requires multiple PRs

Expert agent for enforcing SOLID principles, clean code standards, and architectural patterns across the codebase with automated analysis and refactoring suggestions

Comprehensive code reviewer for orchestration workflow - deep analysis of logic, security, performance, accessibility, test coverage, and documentation quality before PR creation

Generates high-quality conventional commit messages from Jira issue context and git diff analysis

Unified commit operations agent - generate, validate, and track commits with Jira smart commit integration

Track commits, map them to Jira issues, and post detailed commit summaries with Confluence references

Orchestrates the complete task completion flow including sub-issue monitoring, gap analysis, Confluence documentation, commit creation, and issue commenting with full traceability

Orchestrate the full completion workflow - PR creation, sub-item documentation, and QA transitions

**Purpose**: Track compliance with SOC2, GDPR, ISO27001. Collect evidence, monitor controls, generate audit reports, manage exceptions.

Create Confluence documentation at orchestration phases with Jira/PR linking

Manages Confluence documentation based on Jira issues - reads requirements, writes technical docs, creates runbooks, syncs with Jira, maintains documentation lifecycle

Coordinates agent council reviews using the blackboard pattern for collaborative multi-agent analysis

Cross-project dependency detection, visualization, impact analysis, circular dependency detection, critical path calculation, and blocking issue identification

Sends notifications to Discord channels using Discord API with rich embeds, mentions, and threading support

Unified documentation agent for TDD, ADR, API docs, runbooks, Confluence pages, and Jira-Confluence linking with optimized CQL queries

Ensures Confluence documentation is created, updated, and linked for all Jira issues and sub-issues. Automatically syncs READMEs with Confluence pages and maintains bidirectional links between Jira, Confluence, and code repositories.

Comprehensive documentation writer for DOCUMENT phase - creates README, API docs, ADRs, code comments, changelogs, Confluence pages, user guides, and runbooks

Create draft PR immediately after PLAN phase and update it throughout development for early visibility and feedback

Breaks down epics into manageable user stories and tasks using INVEST principles, user journey analysis, dependency mapping, and adaptive learning from past decompositions

You are the **Escalation Manager Agent** - responsible for managing escalations across all Jira issues. Your mission is to ensure critical issues receive appropriate attention through multi-level escalation paths, timely notifications, and proper routing to on-call teams.

Event sourcing system for complete orchestration audit trail, state reconstruction, time-travel debugging, and event replay capabilities

Advanced expertise matching system - Deep multi-dimensional analysis to select optimal experts with confidence scoring, team composition optimization, and load balancing

Generates PDF reports, Excel/CSV exports, and JSON exports with custom templates, scheduling, and distribution capabilities

Publishes documentation to external platforms beyond Confluence - GitHub Wiki, API docs sites, GitBook, Notion, automated README updates, and blog posts

Complete audit trail management for all decisions, compliance reporting, change log generation, access pattern analysis, risk assessment, and SOC2/ISO27001 evidence collection.

Expert agent for Harness REST API operations including authentication, organizations, projects, pipelines, triggers, services, environments, connectors, secrets, executions, and module-specific APIs (GitOps, Feature Flags, IaCM, Chaos, STO, CCM)

Automate bidirectional synchronization between Harness CD and Jira for pipelines, deployments, Git repositories, pull requests, and code review comments using Harness MCP

Hypothesis-driven debugging agent that systematically tests theories to find root causes. ALWAYS checks documentation for expected behavior before forming hypotheses.

Expert infrastructure agent for creating modular Harness repositories, managing Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, and Terraform infrastructure with deep GitOps knowledge

Intelligence and analytics module for the jira-orchestrator - provides predictive analytics, learning from history, smart prioritization, velocity tracking, and pattern recognition to optimize agent selection and task execution

CRITICAL SAFETY AGENT - Validates issue key before ANY Jira operation. MUST be called first to prevent working on wrong issues.

Coordinates real-time learning across all agents, manages knowledge consolidation, and optimizes agent selection based on historical performance

Real-time orchestration metrics dashboard with SLA tracking, quality metrics, throughput analysis, and agent performance monitoring

Analyzes notification delivery metrics, user engagement, channel performance, and provides insights for optimization

Routes Jira orchestration events to appropriate notification channels (Slack, Teams, Email, Webhooks) with intelligent filtering, batching, and priority management

Creates and manages PagerDuty incidents for critical Jira Orchestrator events with proper severity, deduplication, and auto-resolution

Discovers, analyzes dependencies, and coordinates parallel execution of Jira sub-issues using DAG-based scheduling with intelligent agent routing per sub-issue

Extracts learnable patterns from task outcomes using extended thinking (8000 token budget) to identify success factors, failure modes, and transferable knowledge

Tracks and analyzes agent performance metrics in real-time, generates performance reports, identifies trends, and provides data-driven recommendations

Policy definition and evaluation engine for code quality gates, security requirements, review policies, branch protection, and compliance checks

Multi-project portfolio management with aggregated metrics, cross-project dependencies, resource allocation, strategic alignment, and executive-level reporting

Create high-quality pull requests via Harness Code with Confluence documentation and Jira integration

Log all documentation and interactions to PR comments for complete audit trail

Analyze planned work and estimate final PR size to recommend splitting strategy before CODE phase begins

Monitors and responds to comments on QA tickets, providing clarifications and updates

Creates visually impressive Confluence documentation with main hub pages and linked sub-pages for each task

Reviews JIRA tickets in QA status, improves content quality, condenses descriptions, and ensures completeness

Transition Jira issues and all sub-items to QA status after work completion

Enhanced code quality reviewer for orchestration workflow - validates best practices, security, performance, accessibility, and documentation

Advanced quality analytics and intelligence system - tracks technical debt, quality trends, health scores, hotspots, security intelligence, and predictive quality metrics

Multi-project release planning, release train management, automated release notes, rollback coordination, feature flag management, and go/no-go decision support

Deep analysis of Jira issue requirements to ensure clarity, completeness, and testability before implementation begins

Break down PR reviews into small, manageable tasks that can be reviewed independently in 5-15 minute chunks

Orchestrate code review workflows from creation to completion with progress tracking

Track review status across all sub-item chunks with progress dashboards in Jira

Visual roadmap generation with timeline planning, dependency-aware scheduling, release train coordination, milestone tracking, and capacity-based forecasting

Deep root cause analysis agent using 5 Whys, Fishbone diagrams, and causal chain analysis. ALWAYS grounds analysis in documentation and system facts.

Team skills inventory management with expertise tracking, skill gap analysis, training recommendations, optimal task assignment, knowledge transfer tracking, and skill coverage reporting

You are the **SLA Monitor Agent** - responsible for tracking Service Level Agreement compliance across all Jira issues. Your mission is to ensure SLA commitments are met, predict breaches before they occur, and provide real-time visibility into SLA performance.

Delivers Jira orchestration notifications to Slack using Block Kit, managing threads, interactive buttons, and rich formatting for optimal user experience

Pre-flight validation of smart commit parameters to prevent failed commits and ensure data integrity

Automated sprint planning with capacity calculation, velocity tracking, backlog prioritization, commitment suggestions, sprint health monitoring, and adaptive learning from past sprint outcomes

Document implementation details on all Jira sub-items after work completion

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Enriches Jira tasks with technical context, requirements analysis, codebase references, and adaptive learning from past enrichment effectiveness.

Advanced team capacity planning with workload tracking, availability management, sprint forecasting, over-allocation detection, resource leveling, and velocity analysis

**Specialized planning agent for designing comprehensive testing strategies during the PLAN phase before coding begins.**

Intelligent Jira workflow state management with fuzzy matching and validation

Branching exploration agent for problems with multiple solution paths. ALWAYS queries Context7 for documentation and explores trade-offs systematically.

You are the **Triage Agent** - the first point of analysis for all incoming Jira issues. Your role is critical: classify, assess, and route issues to the optimal agent workflow path.

Publishes Jira orchestration events to external webhook endpoints with retry logic, signature verification, and event filtering

Workload distribution analysis and balancing with rebalancing recommendations, bottleneck identification, context switching analysis, meeting load impact assessment, and burnout risk detection.

Manages Jira time tracking and worklog entries with smart time parsing, validation, and remaining estimate tracking

**Purpose:** Manage git worktrees for parallel development with sub-agents

> Patterns from "Agentic Design Patterns" (Gulli & Sauco, 2025) applied to enterprise Jira workflow orchestration, 81-agent hierarchy management, sprint planning, and issue lifecycle automation.

Clean Architecture and SOLID principles implementation including dependency injection, layer separation, domain-driven design, hexagonal architecture, and code quality patterns

Comprehensive code review knowledge including security, performance, accessibility, and quality standards across multiple languages and frameworks

Guide for creating and managing technical documentation in Confluence with Jira integration.

Harness CD (Continuous Delivery) for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ECS, and serverless deployments with GitOps, approval gates, rollback strategies, and multi-environment promotion

Harness CI (Continuous Integration) for container-native builds with test intelligence, caching, parallelization, and build infrastructure management

Harness MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration for AI-powered CD operations, pipeline management, Git repositories, pull requests, code review comments, and bidirectional Jira synchronization

Execute and monitor Harness pipelines with Jira integration

Harness Platform administration including delegates, RBAC, connectors, secrets, templates, policy as code (OPA), user management, audit logs, and governance

This skill should be used when the user asks to "orchestrate jira", "work on issue", "complete jira ticket", "development workflow", "jira automation", "issue lifecycle", "work on story", "fix bug ticket", or needs guidance on coordinating development work through Jira with multi-agent orchestration patterns.

Comprehensive knowledge for creating, managing, and merging pull requests with Jira integration, following best practices for code review, deployment, and team collaboration

This skill should be used when the user asks to "reason through", "think step by step", "analyze systematically", "debug with hypotheses", "root cause analysis", "chain of thought", "tree of thought", "documentation lookup", or needs structured reasoning frameworks with mandatory documentation retrieval before analysis.

Enriches Jira tasks with comprehensive context, requirements analysis, and technical details through intelligent extraction, dependency mapping, and historical analysis

This skill should be used when the user asks to "triage issue", "classify ticket", "route jira", "analyze priority", "categorize issue", "determine complexity", "route to agents", or needs guidance on classifying, prioritizing, and routing Jira issues to appropriate agents and workflows.

9 hooks across 5 events