Busabase for Amp

Connect Amp to Busabase

Sourcegraph's agentic coding tool — a terminal TUI with full shell, file editing and git access, plus editor extensions.

Paste this into Amp

Read https://busabase.com/SETUP_SKILL.md and set up Busabase for me. Follow it through to the end, then confirm the connection works.

Read the Amp documentation
Busabase
Agent Skill
The Busabase review inbox, showing proposed changes waiting for approval

Give your agent this one instruction

You end up with more than a connector: the busabase skill carries the whole approval-first workflow, the CLI, and the full API — available in every future session without re-pasting anything.

Asks first

Busabase Cloud or Personal Desktop — your call, before anything happens.

Connects

Signs you in and stores the credential itself. No API key to copy by hand.

Seeds a Base

Creates and fills your first Base, so the workspace is not an empty screen.

Installs the skills

busabase and busabase-app-creator become permanent, for every session after this.

For this agent

Amp's TUI runs shell commands directly, so the setup document works without extra configuration.

Prefer a connector?

If you would rather wire Busabase in as MCP tools than let the agent install a skill, use the server URL below.

At a glance

Vendor
Sourcegraph
How it connects
Plugin / Skill · MCP + OAuth
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Authentication
OAuth (dynamic registration)
Config file
~/.config/amp/settings.json
Run this
amp mcp add busabase https://busabase.com/api/mcp

Amp is a terminal-based coding agent with full filesystem and shell access, so the Skill path applies.

Prefer a connector?

Add the server from the CLI:

amp mcp add busabase https://busabase.com/api/mcp

Or edit ~/.config/amp/settings.json (.jsonc also works) directly — note the key is amp.mcpServers, not a bare mcpServers:

{
  "amp.mcpServers": {
    "busabase": {
      "url": "https://busabase.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Amp's manual states that for servers supporting automatic OAuth client registration, "when you start the Amp TUI after adding such a server, Amp will automatically start the OAuth flow in your browser." Busabase supports dynamic client registration, so this should apply.

Other commands: amp mcp doctor (check status), amp mcp approve <name> (approve workspace servers), amp mcp oauth login|logout <name> (manual credential handling).

Amp manual

Known gotchas

The settings key is `amp.mcpServers` — a bare `mcpServers` (the shape most other clients use) is not read. OAuth starts automatically when you launch the TUI after adding a server that supports dynamic registration; `amp mcp oauth login <name>` handles it manually if that does not fire, and `amp mcp doctor` diagnoses a failing connection.

These stepsFrom official docsNo check date recorded

Written from this agent's own documentation. We have not re-run every step on a real machine, so check the linked docs if a command has changed.

Let your agent do the setup

One instruction, reviewed access, and every change it makes afterwards arrives as a proposal you approve.

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Paste this into Amp

Read https://busabase.com/SETUP_SKILL.md and set up Busabase for me. Follow it through to the end, then confirm the connection works.