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Confluence Space Provisioning

Self-serve Confluence space creation with propose-time key-collision detection and audit-chain coverage. Approval-gated; the approval card surfaces conflicts before the admin clicks Approve so wasted approval cycles are eliminated.

Integrates with

Atlassian Confluence

The problem

Confluence space requests are low-risk but high-frequency: a new project team needs a documentation space, IT must create it, and key collisions cause silent retries that waste cycles. Manual creation is 5-10 minutes per request and scales linearly with team count.

What AscendCore does

A team lead requests a new Confluence space in Slack or Teams with a key + name. AscendCore checks for key collisions BEFORE posting the approval card (so the admin doesn't approve into a guaranteed failure), proposes the creation with full context, and on approval creates the space in Confluence Cloud. The audit row captures the created space's ID + UI URL for compliance traceability.

Workflow

  1. Trigger — /confluence-space <space-key> "<space-name>" [description] from Slack or confluence-space <space-key> "<space-name>" [description] from Teams
  2. Pre-flight — query Confluence for an existing space with the same key. If a collision exists, the requester sees the conflict immediately (no admin approval is consumed).
  3. Propose — admin approval card with key + name + description + the projected space URL
  4. Approve — IT admin approval (auto-execution for low-risk requests is planned)
  5. Create: the space is created in Confluence Cloud
  6. Notify — requester DM'd with the new space URL
  7. Audit: one record on the tamper-evident audit chain with the space key, name, and URL

Integrations

  • Atlassian Confluence: space creation and duplicate detection
  • Slack + Microsoft Teams — Request trigger, approval, confirmation

Configuration

Uses your Atlassian Cloud connection; organizations that run Jira and Confluence on the same Atlassian site connect once.

Roadmap

  • Phase 3: Page-template application at create-time
  • Phase 3: Group → space-member provisioning (resolve a Jira project team or Entra group into Confluence members)
  • Phase 3: Per-space permission scaffolding (auto-grant space-admin to the requester or a designated team)
  • Phase 3: Auto-approve under auto_low_risk policy for routine team-space creation

Status

Live in production — admin-initiated approval flow on Slack + Teams with full audit-chain coverage. Phase 2 ships create + collision detection; templates and member-add are Phase 3.

How it runs

Deterministic, approval-gated, auditable

Each runbook is a fixed, reviewed sequence of steps with an explicit approval policy. The AI only works out what was asked; the runbook decides what happens, a named person approves it, and every decision lands on the tamper-evident audit chain. Chat is just the interface that triggers it.

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