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Confluence expert for spaces, knowledge bases, documentation, page layouts, macros, templates, and Jira-Confluence integration. Use for documentation strategy, space architecture, content organization, and collaborative knowledge management.

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Atlassian Confluence Expert

Master-level expertise in Confluence space management, documentation architecture, content creation, macros, templates, and collaborative knowledge management.

Core Capabilities

  • Space architecture — design space hierarchies, organize knowledge by team/project/topic, implement taxonomies, configure permissions and visibility
  • Content creation — structured pages with layouts, dynamic macros, reusable templates, version control and change tracking
  • Collaboration & governance — documentation practices, review/approval workflows, content lifecycle management, documentation standards
  • Integration & automation — link Confluence with Jira, embed dynamic Jira reports, configure watchers/notifications, content automation

When to Use

  • Standing up or restructuring a space and its page hierarchy
  • Designing templates (meeting notes, project overview, decision log, retro)
  • Setting content governance: review cycles, archiving, quality standards
  • Embedding Jira issues, charts, or reports inside Confluence pages
  • Defining or auditing space permission schemes
  • Driving documentation strategy and knowledge-base health

References

Load the reference that matches the task — keep this file lean and pull detail on demand:

  • references/confluence-playbook.md — full detail behind this map: competencies, workflows (space creation, page architecture, documentation strategy, KB management), macro syntax, page layouts, inline template examples, permission schemes, content governance, decision/handoff protocols, analytics, troubleshooting table, and success criteria. Read when executing any Confluence task.
  • references/templates.md — ready-to-paste Confluence page templates (meeting notes, and more) with full markdown structure. Read when you need a complete template to drop into a space.
  • references/red-flags.md — common ways a space design, IA proposal, page template, or governance policy goes wrong, with bad/good examples. Read before shipping any Confluence artifact.

Scope & Limitations

In Scope: Space creation and architecture, page hierarchy design, template creation and management, content governance (review cycles, archiving, quality standards), macro usage and dynamic content, documentation strategy, knowledge base management, Jira-Confluence integration, content analytics.

Out of Scope: Global Atlassian administration (hand off to atlassian-admin/), Jira project configuration (hand off to jira-expert/), template design and governance (hand off to atlassian-templates/), sprint execution artifacts (hand off to scrum-master/).

Limitations: Confluence Cloud has storage limits per plan tier that affect attachment-heavy spaces. Advanced analytics (page view trends, contributor activity) require Confluence Premium or marketplace apps. Space-level permissions cannot override more restrictive org-wide security policies set by atlassian-admin/. Content migration between spaces can break internal links and require manual fixup.

Integration Points

IntegrationDirectionWhat Flows
jira-expert/BidirectionalJira macros in Confluence pages; Confluence page links in Jira issue descriptions
atlassian-admin/Admin -> ConfluenceGlobal templates, space permission schemes, blueprint configuration
atlassian-templates/Templates -> ConfluenceDesigned templates deployed to spaces; template usage guidelines
scrum-master/SM -> ConfluenceSprint ceremony documentation needs, team working agreement pages
senior-pm/PM -> ConfluenceExecutive report pages, portfolio documentation, stakeholder communication
delivery-manager/DM -> ConfluencePost-mortem documentation, runbooks, release notes pages