Step-by-step AI & Atlassian guides with real code examples.
The engineering teardown of goose local-edition: how the scheduler, the parallel planner, the CONTRACTS discipline, the model-free judge, and the post-run smoke/AST gates are actually implemented, why each exists — and the self-driving test harness that found the failure behind every one of them.
Mihai Perdum5 min read
A practical, end-to-end guide to wiring large language models into Jira workflows with Atlassian Forge — using CogniRunner as the real-world case study.
Mihai Perdum12 min read
Agent Skills are how you give a coding agent reliable knowledge of a framework it's never read. This guide walks the mechanics — progressive disclosure, SKILL.md, auto-trigger via description — and demonstrates each step with one of six open-source Atlassian skills you can install in two minutes.
Mihai Perdum12 min read
Your organisation uses Tempo Timesheets and needs to prevent users from logging time against certain Jira issue types — like Risk, Assumption, or any work type that exists for tracking purposes only. There's no toggle for this in Tempo. But there's a workflow property that does exactly what you need, and it takes five minutes once you know where to look.
Gabriela Perdum5 min read
Set a default value on a Jira Cloud single select field and "None" silently vanishes from the dropdown — with zero UI option to bring it back. Here's what's actually happening under the hood and the exact curl command that fixes it.
Gabriela Perdum5 min read
Confluence supports dark mode. Your Forge app should too. This tutorial covers the full theme implementation for a production Custom UI app -- from Forge Bridge detection to a comprehensive CSS variable system that switches automatically.
Mihai Perdum15 min read
The real work in a cloud migration is getting to zero data loss. That starts with a thorough assessment -- knowing exactly what you have, what will not migrate automatically, and what needs hands-on validation. This is a practical guide to gathering that data using SQL queries, REST API scripts, and ScriptRunner Groovy snippets.
Mihai Perdum20 min read
This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to build a robust user ingestion system that transfers users from Microsoft Graph API (Azure Entra ID) to Jira Service Management Cloud Assets. The solution handles complex scenarios without complete public API documentation by implementing custom logic for object reference attributes, user type attributes, and sophisticated error handling mechanisms.
Mihai Perdum30 min read