Agentic automation in practice: putting standard engineering work on autopilot

This post details the implementation of an agentic automation system for security vulnerabilities. It introduces Bitbucket Agentic Pipelines, Rovo Dev, and Atlassian MCP tools to create a three-part system: a dispatcher that finds and classifies eligible work items, a coding agent that applies fixes using codebase-specific skills, and a closer that verifies deployments and transitions tickets. Key technical contributions include defining agents as versioned pipeline steps, using .rovodev prompts and skills to encode institutional knowledge, and implementing idempotent workflows for reliable re-runs. The system achieved a 95% first-run merge rate for automated vulnerability fixes.