diff --git a/.commitlintrc.yaml b/.commitlintrc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d0b32786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.commitlintrc.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+rules:
+  body-case: [2, always, sentence-case]
+  body-full-stop: [2, always]
+  body-leading-blank: [2, always]
+  body-max-line-length: [2, always, 72]
+  footer-leading-blank: [2, always]
+  footer-max-line-length: [2, always, 72]
+  header-max-length: [2, always, 72]
+  scope-case: [2, always, lower-case]
+  subject-case:
+    - 2
+    - never
+    - [pascal-case, sentence-case, start-case, upper-case]
+  subject-empty: [2, never]
+  subject-full-stop: [2, never, "."]
+  type-case: [2, always, lower-case]
+  type-empty: [2, never]
+  type-enum:
+    - 2
+    - always
+    - [build, chore, ci, docs, feat, fix, perf, refactor, style, test]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c388c73f..6234a2e0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2020, 2022 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2020, 2022, 2024 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
@@ -9,6 +9,32 @@ name: CI
 on: [push, pull_request]
 
 jobs:
+  lint-commitlint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+
+      - name: Install commitlint
+        run: |
+          npm install conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits
+          npm install commitlint@latest
+
+      - name: Check commit message compliance of the recently pushed commit
+        if: github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-commitlint HEAD~1 HEAD
+
+      - name: Check commit message compliance of the pull request
+        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        run: |
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-commitlint ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}~${{ github.event.pull_request.commits }} ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+
   lint-shellcheck:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
@@ -18,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run shell script static analysis
         run: |
           sudo apt-get install shellcheck
-          ./run-tests.sh --check-shellscript
+          ./run-tests.sh --check-shellcheck
 
   docs-sphinx:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
diff --git a/run-tests.sh b/run-tests.sh
index f1760198..be7b60c9 100755
--- a/run-tests.sh
+++ b/run-tests.sh
@@ -1,21 +1,36 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # This file is part of REANA.
-# Copyright (C) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 CERN.
+# Copyright (C) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 CERN.
 #
 # REANA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 # under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
 
-# Quit on errors
 set -o errexit
-
-# Quit on unbound symbols
 set -o nounset
 
-check_script () {
+check_shellcheck () {
     shellcheck run-tests.sh
 }
 
+check_commitlint () {
+    from=${2:-master}
+    to=${3:-HEAD}
+    npx commitlint --from="$from" --to="$to" --verbose
+    found=0
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        if echo "$line" | grep -qP "\(\#[0-9]+\)$"; then
+            echo "✔   PR number present in $line"
+        else
+            echo "✖   PR number missing in $line"
+            found=1
+        fi
+    done < <(git log "$from..$to" --format="%s")
+    if [ $found -gt 0 ]; then
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
 check_sphinx () {
     sphinx-build -qnNW docs docs/_build/html
 }
@@ -41,7 +56,8 @@ check_docker_build () {
 }
 
 check_all () {
-    check_script
+    check_commitlint
+    check_shellcheck
     check_sphinx
     check_lint
     check_prettier
@@ -58,7 +74,6 @@ fi
 for arg in "$@"
 do
     case $arg in
-        --check-shellscript) check_script;;
         --check-sphinx) check_sphinx;;
         --check-lint) check_lint;;
         --check-prettier) check_prettier;;
@@ -68,3 +83,16 @@ do
         *)
     esac
 done
+
+arg="$1"
+case $arg in
+    --check-commitlint) check_commitlint "$@";;
+    --check-shellcheck) check_shellcheck;;
+    --check-sphinx) check_sphinx;;
+    --check-lint) check_lint;;
+    --check-prettier) check_prettier;;
+    --check-js-tests) check_js_tests;;
+    --check-dockerfile) check_dockerfile;;
+    --check-docker-build) check_docker_build;;
+    *) echo "[ERROR] Invalid argument '$arg'. Exiting." && exit 1;;
+esac