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Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian offering both commercial plans and free accounts with unlimited private repositories, along with CI/CD pipelines, code reviews via pull requests, and code collaboration tools for development teams.

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Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Bitbucket the way a machine reads it — 80 machine-readable artifacts across 23 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Bitbucket scores 66.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 66.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 23.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Bitbucket

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bitbucket. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 23

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bitbucket Addon API

The addon resource is intended to use used by Bitbucket Cloud Connect Apps, and only supports JWT authentication.

Bitbucket Branch restrictions API

Repository owners and administrators can set branch management rules on a repository that control what can be pushed by whom. Through these rules, you can enforce a project or t...

Bitbucket Branching model API

The branching model resource is used to modify the branching model for a repository. You can use the branching model to define a branch based workflow for your repositories. Whe...

Bitbucket Commit statuses API

Commit statuses provide a way to tag commits with meta data, like automated build results.

Bitbucket Commits API

These are the repository's commits. They are paginated and returned in reverse chronological order, similar to the output of git log.

Bitbucket Deployments API

Teams are deploying code faster than ever, thanks to continuous delivery practices and tools like Bitbucket Pipelines. Bitbucket Deployments gives teams visibility into their de...

Bitbucket Downloads API

Access the list of download links associated with the repository.

Bitbucket GPG API

The GPG resource allows you to manage GPG keys.

Bitbucket Issue tracker API

The issue resources provide functionality for getting information on issues in an issue tracker, creating new issues, updating them and deleting them. You can access public issu...

Bitbucket Pipelines API

Bitbucket Pipelines brings continuous delivery to Bitbucket Cloud, empowering teams with full branching to deployment visibility and faster feedback loops.

Bitbucket Projects API

Bitbucket Cloud projects make it easier for teams to focus on a goal, product, or process by organizing their repositories.

Bitbucket properties API

The properties API from Bitbucket — 4 operation(s) for properties.

Bitbucket Pullrequests API

Pull requests are a feature that makes it easier for developers to collaborate using Bitbucket. They provide a user-friendly web interface for discussing proposed changes before...

Bitbucket Refs API

The refs resource allows you access branches and tags in a repository. By default, results will be in the order the underlying source control system returns them and identical t...

Bitbucket Reports API

Code insights provides reports, annotations, and metrics to help you and your team improve code quality in pull requests throughout the code review process. Some of the availabl...

Bitbucket Repositories API

A Git repository is a virtual storage of your project. It allows you to save versions of your code, which you can access when needed. The repo resource allows you to access publ...

Bitbucket Search API

The Search API from Bitbucket — 3 operation(s) for search.

Bitbucket Snippets API

Snippets allow you share code segments or files with yourself, members of your workspace, or the world. Like pull requests, repositories and workspaces, the full set of snippets...

Bitbucket Source API

Browse the source code in the repository and create new commits by uploading.

Bitbucket SSH API

The SSH resource allows you to manage SSH keys.

Bitbucket Users API

The users resource allows you to access public information associated with a user account. Most resources in the users endpoint have been deprecated in favor of workspaces.

Bitbucket Webhooks API

Webhooks provide a way to configure Bitbucket Cloud to make requests to your server (or another external service) whenever certain events occur in Bitbucket Cloud. A webhook con...

Bitbucket Workspaces API

A workspace is where you create repositories, collaborate on your code, and organize different streams of work in your Bitbucket Cloud account. Workspaces replace the use of tea...

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bitbucket API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bitbucket Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 5 users, 1 GB, 50 build minutes/mo
Standard at $3.65/user/mo: unlimited users/storage, 2,500 build minutes
Premium at $7.25/user/mo: 3,500 minutes, AI PR, IP allowlisting, 99.9% SLA
REST API v2 at api.bitbucket.org/2.0
1,000 req/hr per user, 60K req/hr per IP
Pipelines for CI/CD
Pipeline concurrency: 1 Free, 10 Standard, 20 Premium
OAuth 2.0 + repository/workspace access tokens
Webhooks for repository, PR, pipeline events
Code insights for static analysis integration
Self-hosted runners (1 slot Standard, 2 Premium)
Deployment environments tracking
Native Jira integration
Atlassian Marketplace apps
Git LFS support (5 GB Standard, 10 GB Premium)
Forge / Connect framework for apps

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Bitbucket Cloud Webhook Events

Bitbucket Cloud webhooks deliver event payloads to a subscriber URL via HTTP POST whenever a configured event occurs in a repository or workspace. Each event request includes an...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Bitbucket Cloud Rest Api Context

4 classes · 23 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Bitbucket API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

Bitbucket API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Bitbucket API Rules

22 rules · 8 errors · 12 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Commit

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pipeline

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pullrequest

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Repository

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Bitbucket Cloud Rest Api Commit Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Bitbucket Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bitbucket Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Bitbucket Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Bitbucket Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Bitbucket Trust Center

FedRAMP

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Bitbucket Scopes

26 scopes · authorizationCode

26 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bitbucket Agentic Access

335 operations · 156 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

335 operations · 156 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Code Review Workflows

Enforce code quality through structured pull request reviews with required approvals.

CI/CD Automation

Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines triggered by code changes.

Team Collaboration

Enable distributed development teams to collaborate on code with workspaces and projects.

Release Management

Manage releases with deployment tracking and environment promotion.

Security Scanning

Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines for vulnerability detection.

Integrations 8

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Jira Software

Deep integration with Jira for issue tracking and project management.

Trello

Connect Bitbucket with Trello for visual project management.

Slack

Receive Bitbucket notifications in Slack channels.

Confluence

Link documentation in Confluence with code in Bitbucket.

AWS

Deploy to AWS services using Bitbucket Pipelines.

Azure

Deploy to Azure services using Bitbucket Pipelines.

Google Cloud

Deploy to Google Cloud using Bitbucket Pipelines.

Docker

Build and push Docker images using Bitbucket Pipelines.

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Bitbucket — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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