Yes. AI tools connected to Jira and Confluence with the Atlassian Rovo MCP or Atlassian API can only read what is still there. Once content is expired, archived or deleted under your policy, it is no longer available to them. Content that stays under retention, or under a hold, remains available as before.

Yes. Connectors such as the Atlassian Rovo MCP server read from your Jira and Confluence content. Content Retention Manager works on that content at the source, so Rovo, Claude and ChatGPT only see what your retention policy has kept. There is nothing to configure on the connector side.

Rovo answers from the pages that still exist, so outdated pages need to go. Set an expiry policy by space, project or classification, review what would be removed, then switch on automatic enforcement. Stale pages stop turning up in AI answers, and every removal is logged.

You decide. Use holds and exceptions to extend retention for pages and tickets you must keep, and let everything else expire. Immutable, exportable audit logs show what was kept, what was removed, and under which policy.

Confluence archiving is manual, capped at 500 items per action, and has no automatic site-level archive. Content Retention Manager applies policy automatically across spaces and projects, supports holds, and keeps an audit trail for every action.

Content Retention Manager enforces organization-specific data retention rules directly within Confluence or Jira. It automates the deletion or purging of content once it meets its expiration date, creates audit logs of all activity, and enables one-click exports for compliance evidence—helping you satisfy regulations like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, FINRA, and GDPR.

Yes. Administrators can configure multiple policies and assign them at a granular level—for example, by space in Confluence, by project in Jira, or even by Classification. You can also override default retention rules for specific use cases or content types (e.g., legal-hold items that must be kept longer than normal)

No, you don’t have to enforce automatic deletion right away. You can configure the tool to simply track which content is eligible for deletion, allowing you to review and confirm that your policies work as intended. Once you’re satisfied with the observed effects and comfortable with the policy settings, you can enable automated deletion and purging so that everything runs on autopilot going forward.

When data reaches the end of its retention period, Content Retention Manager first deletes it (removing it from active use), and then permanently purges it on the schedule you set. Once purged, the data is irrecoverable, which is very often a regulatory requirement. You can optionally extend or exempt certain items before they hit their expiration date to avoid accidental permanent deletion.

Not at all. It’s available through the Atlassian Marketplace for Confluence Cloud and Jira Cloud, so installation is a few clicks. Opus Guard’s admin console is integrated right into Confluence and Jira, making it easy for Atlassian admins to configure everything. Because it’s cloud-based, there’s no separate infrastructure to manage, and all your data stays only in your Atlassian Cloud site.

Opus Guard provides you separate but very similar apps for Confluence and Jira. They have the same core code,  functionality, and user experience, but each is tuned to the product’s data structures (e.g., pages and attachments in Confluence vs. issues in Jira). You can deploy both to manage retention in each environment consistently.