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Contributing

How to Contribute​

Contributions of all kinds are welcome!

Please visit our Community Forums for general community discussion and the development roadmap.

Here is how you can get involved:

  • Request a new feature: Go to the Feature Requests category of the Community Forums. Please search existing feature requests before making a new one
  • Write code for a new feature: Make a new post in the Password Manager or Secrets Manager GitHub Discussions category. Include a description of your proposed contribution, screenshots, and links to any relevant feature requests. This helps get feedback from the community and Bitwarden team members before you start writing code
  • Report a bug or submit a bugfix: Use Github issues and pull requests
  • Help other users: Go to the Ask the Bitwarden Community category on the Community Forums
  • Translate: See the localization (i10n) section below
  • Report a security concern or vulnerability: Security audits and feedback are welcome. If the issue is sensitive, please contact us privately or submit a report through our HackerOne Program. You can read our security policy below.

Contributor Agreement​

Please sign the Contributor Agreement if you intend on contributing to any Github repository. Pull requests cannot be accepted and merged unless the author has signed the Contributor Agreement.

Pull Request Guidelines​

  • use npm run lint and fix any linting suggestions before submitting a pull request
  • commit any pull requests against the main branch
  • include a link to your Community Forums post

Localization (l10n)​

We use a translation tool called Crowdin to help manage our localization efforts across many different languages.

For consistent translations across all platforms and languages, visit bitwarden.com/translate to learn how to use the localization glossary.

If you are interested in helping translate the Bitwarden applications into another language (or make a translation correction), please register an account at Crowdin and join our projects here:

If the language that you are interested in translating is not already listed, create a new account on Crowdin, join the project, and contact the project owner.

You can read Crowdin's getting started guide for translators here: https://support.crowdin.com/crowdin-intro/.

Security policy​

Bitwarden believes that working with security researchers across the globe is crucial to keeping our users safe. If you believe you've found a security issue in our product or service, we encourage you to please submit a report through our HackerOne Program. We welcome working with you to resolve the issue promptly. Thanks in advance!

Disclosure Policy​

  • Let us know as soon as possible upon discovery of a potential security issue, and we'll make every effort to quickly resolve the issue.
  • Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before any disclosure to the public or a third-party. We may publicly disclose the issue before resolving it, if appropriate.
  • Make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or degradation of our service. Only interact with accounts you own or with explicit permission of the account holder.
  • If you would like to encrypt your report, please use the PGP key with long ID 0xDE6887086F892325FEC04CC0D847525B6931381F (available in the public keyserver pool).

While researching, we'd like to ask you to refrain from:

  • Denial of service
  • Spamming
  • Social engineering (including phishing) of Bitwarden staff or contractors
  • Any physical attempts against Bitwarden property or data centers

We want to help you!​

If you have something that you feel is close to exploitation, or if you'd like some information regarding the internal API, or generally have any questions regarding the app that would help in your efforts, please contact us and ask for that information. As stated above, Bitwarden wants to help you find issues, and is more than willing to help.

Thank you for helping keep Bitwarden and our users safe!