Is there a cloud verified plugin that checks commit messages?

[Serge Asmar]

Is there a cloud verified plugin that checks commit messages for Jira ticket IDs and prevents a commit in case this jira ID ticket is not present?

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

Update on 4 Jun 2025

After months of hard work and close beta testing, we released Better Commit Policy Connector for Bitbucket Cloud on Atlassian Marketplace last week!

It can check commit messages for:

• format (e.g. where to enter the work item key? uppercase/lowercase/mixed case?)
• length (e.g. so that your users must enter at least N characters in addition to the work item)
• required work items keys (you can configure a JQL query to precisely filter which work items are accepted, how many, etc.)

🔥 Get started here

This is how a pull request and the commits are checked directly on the pull request details screen:

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Original response

@Serge Asmar We are already working on the Cloud version of the Better Commit Policy app (a popular solution to implement commit policies on Bitbucket DC)!

Although Bitbucket Cloud doesn't support server side hooks, we will implement an even better approach, using local verification. It can capture missing issue keys when creating the commit, i.e. sooner than the actual push. And, you can fix that right away (the earlier the problem detected the easier to fix it):

Please send an email to aron.gombas@midori-global.com so that we can add you to the Early Access program when it starts.

[Saxea _Flowie_]

Hi @Serge Asmar

I'm afraid not. In fact, as of now, none of th Bitbucket cloud apps are Cloud Fortified:

Some apps are Cloud Security participant though.

We do offer a plugin for commit policy with Flowie and here is our security policy.

Also, note that due to the lack of support for server side hooks (BCLOUD-10471) on Bitbucket cloud, the plugin only won't prevent the commit from being created. It does however create a check preventing a merge.

Hope that helps!

[Serge Asmar]

alright thank you for the reply!

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi @Serge Asmar,

There is a built-in feature in Bitbucket Cloud to require issue keys in commit messages. If you are an administrator of the repo, you can find it by navigating to Repository settings > Links. On that page, you can enable this option.

Please keep in mind that this option doesn't check for issue validity before linking. We have a feature request to implement this here https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-20644.

Kind regards,
Theodora