Rovo Dev CLI installation and prompts

Use AI to streamline your software development process with Rovo Dev CLI. Perform complex development tasks using natural language – like generating, reviewing, and refactoring code, analysing your codebase, writing documentation, debugging issues, and creating unit tests – without leaving your terminal.

Install Rovo Dev CLI

Open Powershell (change d:\web to your projects folder):

• Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://acli.atlassian.com/windows/latest/acli_windows_amd64/acli.exe -OutFile D:\web\acli.exe
• TO GET NEW VERSION: delete acli.exe and invoke the download again

Generate an API token from your Atlassian profile (create your own profile).

Open CMD prompt:

• d:\web> acli rovodev auth login
• d:\web> acli rovodev

More details are here: https://futurised.atlassian.net/dev-agents/rovo-dev-cli

Reference https://rovodevagents-beta.atlassian.net/wiki/external/Yzc2NzI4MTk3YTBhNDdiYjkzZDhhZTc3MjE0ZmE4Y2Q

Example prompts

Explore your codebase

Rovo Dev reads your codebase and answers questions in clear language, helping you quickly navigate familiar codebases and decipher new ones.

Explain this repository to me

Where is the authentication logic defined

What input validation happens during user registration?

Work with Atlassian apps

Rovo Dev integrates with Jira and Confluence, so you can access your team’s knowledge and manage your work without switching contexts. Specify the URL of your site in the prompt.

Ideate and plan

Rovo Dev analyzes your codebase to help you brainstorm and plan technical solutions.

Suggest new features to add that would improve the user experience

How can I improve performance of this app?

Create a coding plan for adding international currencies to the shopping cart, don't implement any changes yet

Generate code

Rovo Dev generates consistent, structured code to help you build and transform your applications.

Review this modal component and add missing ARIA attributes

Migrate code in this repository from C++ to Java

Add search suggestions to search bar: trigger after 3 characters, include keyboard navigation (up/down/enter), filter on a predefined list of popular products

Analyze and iterate on code

Rovo Dev analyzes code, both existing code and code it has generated, and refines it based on your feedback.

Review this repository and make suggestions to improve readability and performance

I'm getting a 500 error when fetching data from the backend API using Axios - find the issue and fix it

The error handling you generated for this function is too simple - add more specific error cases and retry logic

Write code documentation

Rovo Dev generates documentation based on the latest changes to your codebase.

Write detailed documentation for this REST API, including available endpoints, parameters, and expected responses - publish to Confluence space "Vitafleet"

Write JSDoc-style comments for this JavaScript function that handles form validation

Write a README.md file for this project - include sections "Setup", "Features", and "Deployment information"

Test and deploy

Rovo Dev helps you build comprehensive test suites and configure your deployment pipelines.

Generate 100 rows of synthetic user data with: name, email, age, location, and signup date - output it as a CSV

Write a test using React Testing Library to verify if the form shows appropriate error messages when trying to submit with empty mandatory fields

Modify bitbucket-pipelines.yml to add a step for running Jest tests before deploying

Tips for working with Rovo Dev

Start small – Rovo Dev works best with small changes, about 10 or 20 lines at a time.

Break down your tasks – break bigger changes into smaller steps for Rovo Dev to tackle one at a time.

Review and iterate – treat Rovo Dev like a teammate you’re collaborating with, give feedback on the code it generates with what to change and improve.

Change gears – use the /sessions command to start a new session if the current approach isn’t working and you need a fresh perspective

Save frequently – regularly commit changes to track your progress and avoid losing work if something goes wrong.

Commands

/sessions: Switch between sessions, and view session details.

/prune: Reduce the token size of the current session’s message history while retaining context.

/instructions: Run saved instructions. 

/memory: Memory file management.memo

# <note>: Add a note to Rovo Dev’s local memory file.

#! <note>: Remove a note from Rovo Dev’s local memory file.

/usage: Show your daily LLM token usage.

Modes

Interactive mode

Interactive mode is Rovo Dev’s default mode. It lets you use natural language to with the agent so it can answer questions, iterate on code, and problem solve with you.

Run interactive mode from the command line using acli rovodev run.

Non-interactive mode

In non-interactive mode, Rovo Dev updates files in your codebase directly without interaction. This is useful for automating repetitive tasks once you’re happy with results of an instruction.

Run non-interactive mode from the command line using acli rovodev run <instruction>.

For example, you could run acli rovodev run "Create unit tests for all components without tests".