TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

1. Set up your dev environment

• Atlassian Cloud Developer License: Sign up for free development and testing instances of Jira, Confluence, and more.

• Getting Started with Forge documentation: Follow step-by-step instructions for everything you’ll need to start building with Forge, including Node.js and the Forge CLI.

2. Brainstorm what project you want to build

Draw inspiration from challenges that you and your team are facing today, and frame them against the prize categories.

Prize Categories:

• Apps for Software Teams — Give dev teams the context to ship with confidence. Think smarter code reviews, deployment awareness, issue triage that actually understands what matters.

• Apps for Business Teams — Give business teams the context to act decisively. Help colleagues in marketing, sales, HR, finance, support, or legal move faster with the right information in front of them.

• Apps for Specialized Industries — Give experts in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, automotive, or other fields the context to do their best work. Turn insider knowledge into solutions built for your world.

Looking at apps across various categories in the Atlassian Marketplace can also be helpful for inspiration and refining your ideas.

Bonus Prizes:

• Best Agents - Rovo/Assignable agents: All Eligible Submissions that's a Forge app including the rovo:agent module, the rovo:agentConnector module, or apps with reusable rovo:skill and rovo:action modules that other agents can invoke as tools.

• Best app with MCP: All Eligible Submissions that’s a Forge app that exposes tools via the Rovo MCP server using the rovo:mcp module. These can also be combined with open-source skill.md files which users can add to their third party agents.

• Best apps with Teamwork Graph integration: All Eligible Submissions that connects data into the graph and/or consumes data from the Teamwork Graph API.

• Best Marketplace published app: All Eligible Submissions that are published to the Marketplace or submitted for listing. Provide either the link to the listing or link to the Marketplace review ticket

Apps in the Atlassian Marketplace:

• Software Development: Apps that support every stage of the software development life cycle, from planning, building, testing, deployment, to observability

• IT Support: Apps that help improve support SLAs, asset management, and the customer experience

• Sales and customer relations: Apps that help business teams work better together, from product launches, managing marketing campaigns, employee on-boarding, to forecasting results

• Artificial Intelligence apps: Apps powered by AI and ML to help boost efficiency and delivery.

3. Bootstrap your project with sample apps

Sample apps and tutorials by product, published in the developer docs:

• Jira

• Jira Service Management

• Confluence

• Bitbucket

• Compass

• Rovo (AI-powered virtual agents)

Other useful sample apps/tutorials:

• Confluence page summarizer and space index organizer

• Forge Bulk Issue Ops

• Forge AI Sprint Builder

4. Forge Resources and API Documentation

Documentation

• Getting Started with Forge: First time building a Forge app? Build your first hello world for Jira.

• Tutorials and Guides: A collection of useful tutorials that dive deeper into various Forge features and capabilities

• developer.atlassian.com: The home page for all Atlassian platform and product API docs

• Forge Realtime EAP: Try one of Forge’s newest and most highly requested services.

Video

• Codegeist 2026 - Getting Started The essential steps needed to quickly set up your dev environment.

• Atlassian Developer YouTube Channel: From 5-minute tutorials that break down the fundamentals of Forge, livestreams with coding demos, Forge deep dives, to more targeted topics for everything to do with Forge.

• Customizing Confluence Cloud with Forge: Beginner level training session

• Customizing Jira with Forge: Beginner level training session

• Building a Rovo agent with Forge: A super simple quick intro to using Rovo agents with Forge.

Getting Help

If you run into any technical challenges and need a helping hand, join the Atlassian Developer Community. Be sure to use the tag codegeist-2026 on your questions so that it is easy for other participants to see them.

Atlassian Marketplace

If you’re interested in learning more about the Marketplace, including how to become a partner and the requirements to list and sell apps to Atlassian customers, here are some useful links:

• Marketplace Overview

• Distributing your Forge apps for testing

• Listing Apps in the Marketplace