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.

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
amp mcp add busabase https://busabase.com/api/mcpAmp 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).
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.
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.
Browse every agentPaste 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.