Jira AI Agent — Codowave

An AI Engineer for Your Jira Backlog

If your team plans in Jira, you have a backlog of tickets that are specified, prioritized, and waiting on developer hours that never free up. Codowave is an autonomous AI engineer that picks issues, writes the code, runs your tests, and opens a PR. This page is honest about where the Jira connection stands today and how to put Codowave to work on Jira-driven projects right now.

Here's the straight version: native Jira sync is rolling out, not shipped. Today Codowave's supported trackers are Linear, Trello, and GitHub Issues. But Jira teams don't have to wait — because almost every Jira project already runs on GitHub.

How Jira Teams Run Codowave Today

Codowave is tracker-driven: it reads work items from a connected source and turns them into PRs. Native Jira reading is on the roadmap. Until it lands, the practical path for a Jira team is to drive Codowave through GitHub Issues, which you almost certainly already use alongside Jira.

Two patterns work well:

1. Jira tickets that link to GitHub issues. Many teams already mirror or reference a GitHub issue from the Jira ticket via the GitHub-for-Jira app. Codowave reads the GitHub issue, ships the PR, and the PR shows up on the linked Jira ticket through that same integration.
2. A GitHub issue per Jira ticket you want shipped. For tickets you specifically want the agent to take, create a matching GitHub issue (the title and description carry over) with a ready-for-agent label. Codowave picks it up, and the resulting PR closes the GitHub issue.

In both cases Jira stays your planning and reporting system. GitHub is the surface Codowave reads and writes through.

What's Supported Today vs. Rolling Out

We won't tell you native Jira sync exists before it does. When it ships, Jira-driven projects will be able to point Codowave at a Jira project and skip the GitHub-issue step. Until then, the GitHub path gets you the same outcome — merged PRs from your backlog.

What You Still Get Right Now

Routing through GitHub doesn't water down the agent. You get the full Codowave loop:

• Multi-agent pipeline. Planner decomposes the work and flags affected files, Coder implements against your repo conventions, Reviewer scores the diff, Tester runs your suite and fills coverage gaps.
• Watch-only mode, week one. PRs open but never auto-merge until you've reviewed enough to trust it.
• Cost ceiling per run. A hard dollar cap per agent run, so no runaway Anthropic spend.
• Pattern memory. After roughly ten merged PRs, Codowave learns your repo's naming, layout, and test style.
• Isolated per-org containers and BYOK Claude. Your code stays scoped to your org; the model and spend are yours.

The PR Codowave opens links to the GitHub issue and, through the GitHub-for-Jira app, appears on the corresponding Jira ticket — so your Jira reporting still reflects the work.

Get Started

1. Sign up at codowave.com/signup — the free plan covers 3 issues, no card required.
2. Install the GitHub App and connect your repo.
3. Use the GitHub-for-Jira app to link Jira tickets to GitHub issues, or create GitHub issues for the tickets you want shipped.
4. Label those issues ready-for-agent and review the first PRs in watch-only mode.
5. When native Jira sync ships, switch to reading Jira directly — no rework needed.

Plans start at $20/mo — see pricing.