Hello Bitrise community! 
If you’ve ever updated your Bitrise CI/CD configuration by editing your bitrise.yml file you may have come across a few unwanted challenges e.g. opening up a new browser tab to check a step’s documentation, wondering what a specific input parameter actually does or hunting for a workflow definition buried deep in a long file.
Today we’re shipping the Bitrise Language Server for the Workflow Editor, which aims to fix all of that. We’ll release this capability to popular code editors later in 2026.
What you get in v1.0
- Inline documentation — Step descriptions: Hover over any step name to see exactly what it does, inline, without leaving the editor.
- Inline documentation — Step inputs: Hover over a step input parameter to get its full description and valid values on the spot.
- Go-to-reference: Right-click on a workflow, step bundle or container name inside a pipeline definition to jump straight to its definition in the YAML.
- Go-to-definition: Working in reverse — right-click on a workflow, step bundle or container definition, see every place that entity is referenced.
Why this matters
When you’re working in a large bitrise.yml, it’s easy to lose context. You change a workflow without fully seeing how it connects to a pipeline upstream — and the first signal something’s wrong is a failed build 
. The Language Server gives you real-time feedback about your configuration while you’re in it, so you can rectify any issues before they cost you a build.
How to get started
The Language Server is available now via the Configuration YAML option in the Workflow Editor. Open your bitrise.yml and start exploring — hover over any step or input for inline documentation, and click through to navigate between definitions and references.
This is just the beginning!
We’re already working on auto-complete for the Workflow Editor — surfacing pipeline IDs, workflow IDs, step names, step versions and valid input fields as you type. Later this year we’ll be bringing the full Language Server experience to popular code editors like VS Code
Happy building! 