What is a rule actor?

Any changes performed by an automation rule are seen as being performed by the rule actor. When configuring a rule, project/space admins, product-level admins, and site admins have the option to change the rule actor to someone else.

In Confluence automation, the rule actor is the person who created the rule.

In Jira automation, the default rule actor is the “user” called Automation for Jira. For example, if an automation rule transitions an issue to Done, in that issue’s History tab it will show as having been transitioned by Automation for Jira.

To learn more about changing a rule's actor, see Run Jira rules as another user (Jira only).