Busabase for Kimi Code

Connect Kimi Code to Busabase

Moonshot AI's terminal coding agent (TypeScript CLI, successor to kimi-cli) with MCP, Agent Skills, plugins and hooks.

Paste this into Kimi Code

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 Kimi Code Skills documentation

Busabase

Agent Skill

Give your agent this one instruction

You end up with more than a connector: the busabase skill carries the whole change-request 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

The CLI asks before running shell commands, so approve the `npx busabase-cli` commands when prompted. Skills are SKILL.md folders.

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: Moonshot AI (月之暗面)
How it connects: MCP + OAuth · MCP + API key · Plugin / Skill · busabase-cli · REST API
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Authentication: Unknown
Config file: ~/.kimi-code/mcp.json (user) or .kimi-code/mcp.json (project)

Run this

curl -fsSL https://code.kimi.com/kimi-code/install.sh | bash

Kimi Code CLI can fetch a URL and run shell commands, so the Skill path applies. Paste this into a chat with it: Read https://busabase.com/SETUP_SKILL.md and set up Busabase for me. Review the commands it proposes (npx busabase-cli login --no-wait, npx skills add busabase/skills --skill busabase busabase-app-creator), approve the sign-in link in your browser, then ask it to verify the active Busabase account.

Prefer a connector?

Add Busabase to ~/.kimi-code/mcp.json (or run /mcp-config in the TUI):

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

Then run /mcp-config login busabase to complete browser-based OAuth. API-key alternative: add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <key>" } or bearerTokenEnvVar. Start a new session (servers added mid-session only join later sessions), then ask it to call auth_verify.

Kimi Code CLI MCP docs

Known gotchas

Servers added mid-session are not registered in already-open sessions. Docs say entries with a url and no transport are HTTP servers; OAuth uses `/mcp-config login <server>`. Whether dynamic client registration is used is not stated. In 'Ask When Needed' mode MCP tool calls are auto-approved. New in the current docs: project-level servers in an untrusted folder trigger a workspace trust prompt, and headless runs (`kimi -p`) cannot show that prompt, so project-level MCP servers stay disabled there unless the workspace is already trusted (or `KIMI_CODE_TRUST_WORKSPACE=1` is set). Servers dropped mid-session reconnect with exponential backoff.

How it compares

Connection capabilities side by side with other agents already in this directory.

Capability	Kimi Code	Claude Code	Cursor
Type	Terminal agents	Terminal agents	AI editors
Recommended path	Agent Skill	Agent Skill	Agent Skill
How it connects	MCP + OAuth · MCP + API key · Plugin / Skill · busabase-cli · REST API	MCP + OAuth · Plugin / Skill	MCP + OAuth · Plugin / Skill
Transport	Streamable HTTP	Streamable HTTP	Streamable HTTP
Authentication	Unknown	OAuth (dynamic registration)	OAuth (dynamic registration)

These stepsFrom official docsLast checked Nov 8, 2026

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.

Where these steps come from Official site

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Paste this into Kimi Code

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