Basecamp
Connect Basecamp so agents can catch up on your projects and manage to-dos, cards, messages, and check-ins.
Basecamp's hosted MCP server lets agents work directly in your Basecamp account, so they can catch up on a project, manage its to-dos, and post updates as they work.
For use cases and example prompts, see Basecamp for AI coding agents.
What is Basecamp?
Basecamp is a project management app where teams keep each project's to-dos, message board, chat, and check-ins in one place.
What agents can do
Once you connect Basecamp, agents can:
- Search your Basecamp account, and open any item from a Basecamp link
- See your assignments and notifications, and catch up on recent activity
- Create, assign, and complete to-dos, and add and move Card Table cards
- Post messages, comments, and Chat lines
- Create automatic check-ins and answer them
Agents see and change only what the signed-in person can.
With Read and write access, what agents post shows up right away, and they can move items to the Basecamp trash, where you can restore them. Some deletes are permanent. Choose Read only when you connect if agents should only read.
Setup
Basecamp connects by signing in with your Basecamp account. There's no API key to create.
Go to Workspace Settings → Connectors (or a project's Connectors page) and click Connect on the Basecamp card (or Connect another to add another account).
Step 1: who the connection is for
Choose Me or Workspace as the owner, then choose which agents can use the connection. The default is Me, with My personal assistants selected. Enable Agents in projects separately and choose In all projects, including future ones or In some projects. Anyone with access to those projects can use the connection, including in sessions they launch themselves. See connection options for what each choice means.
Click Continue.
Step 2: sign in with Basecamp
Click Continue to Basecamp and sign in. Under Access, choose Read and write or Read only, then click Authorize. You land back on the Connectors page with Basecamp connected.
Agents then act in Basecamp as whoever signed in. If you enable Agents in projects, anyone with access to those projects can use that account — so sign in with an account whose permissions you're happy to share.
Reconnecting and disconnecting
If an account connection stops working, the Connectors page shows a Reconnect needed badge on it, and agents run without Basecamp.
To fix it, click Manage next to the connection, then Reconnect Basecamp, and sign in again. You can only reconnect a personal connection you own; for someone else's, Superconductor tells you who to ask.
To switch between Read and write and Read only, disconnect first, then connect again. Connect another adds a second connection instead of changing this one, and agents can keep using the older one.
Disconnect also asks Basecamp to revoke Superconductor's access. If Basecamp doesn't confirm it, Superconductor tells you to remove Superconductor from your Basecamp Connected apps page to finish the job.
Basecamp can still list Superconductor on its Connected apps page after you disconnect. To remove it, click Revoke access there, after disconnecting in Superconductor.
When to use it
Ask agents to use Basecamp when work starts from a Basecamp project, or when the team should hear about it there. For example:
Catch me up on the Website Redesign project in Basecamp: what changed this week, what was decided, and what's still open.Turn these launch notes into to-dos in the Spring Launch project in Basecamp, each with an owner and a due date. Show me the list before you create anything.Draft my answer to this week's "What did you work on?" check-in in Basecamp from the to-dos I completed. Don't post it yet.Read the "Annual report" message thread in Basecamp, write the summary it asks for, and post it as a comment on the thread.