Use the AI writing assistant to help write or edit content

AI in Bitbucket Cloud can help you and your team work more effectively. Currently it can freely generate, summarize, or transform the description and comments in pull requests. It can also:

• Write pull request descriptions

• Generate comments using custom prompts

• Change the tone of your comments

How do I activate AI features?

AI features are available for Bitbucket Cloud workspaces and can be activated by a workspace administrator.

1. Select the Settings cog on the top navigation bar > select Workspace settings > AI on the left sidebar.

2. Review and accept the AI terms of use.

3. Select Activate.

To deactivate AI features, go to the same page in Workspace settings and click Deactivate. After deactivation, your workspace will retain any previously written AI content.

Enable or disable the AI writing assistant

When you activate AI in Bitbucket, the AI writing assistant is enabled by default. To disable the AI writing assistant specifically, select the toggle associated with the AI writing assistant.

How do I use the AI writing assistant?

Explore the possibilities for generating new content or improving existing text in your pull request description or comments. Follow the steps below to make the most of this tool:

Generate new content

1. Create or open an existing pull request.

2. Select the writing assistant icon from the editor toolbar in the pull request description or a comment.
   You can also access the AI writing assistant in the editor text field by typing /ai.

3. Type in a prompt or select an option from the list.

4. Select ⏎.

5. Once finished, you can save the response to your comment or follow up with an additional prompt.

Edit existing content

The AI writing assistant can be used to quickly improve your writing by finding typos, simplifying language, and more.

1. While in the edit mode, highlight text in an existing comment.

2. Select the writing assistant button that appears above the highlighted text.

3. Type in a prompt or select an option from the list.

4. Select ⏎.

5. Once finished, you can save the response to your comment or follow up with an additional prompt.

Frequently asked questions

What powers the AI writing assistant?

The AI writing assistant leverages AI developed internally and from OpenAI. It uses the Teamwork graph, which is unique to a customer's project or service work, along with internal language models and OpenAI to deliver results specific to the customer's context.

What are the limitations of AI?

As we continue to develop AI features, we recognize that limitations in AI can arise from various factors, such as narrow inputs, systemic biases, insufficient training or test data, or poor quality of training or test data. However, we are committed to making improvements to our artificial intelligence and machine learning models to better address specific use cases over time.

Our customers play a vital role in helping us improve AI features. If you come across any inappropriate responses, please use the 👍 👎 buttons and leave us feedback to flag them for our team.

To ensure that our technology is responsible, we have established a set of principles that guide our teams in building, deploying, and using new technologies like AI. You can learn more about our approach and principles by reading our Responsible Technology Principles.

At Atlassian, we are dedicated to providing our customers with the best possible experience using our apps and services. We will continue to work hard to improve AI and deliver the best results for our customers.

How is Atlassian protecting your data?

We apply our Privacy Principles and company values to our AI features, just as with everything else we do. We’re passionate about creating meaningful data controls, choices, and notices to foster open collaboration and deeper teamwork.

This means we embrace privacy by design in everything we do. You can find the existing Privacy Principles in our Trust Center and our Privacy Policy here.