Busabase for Roo Code

Connect Roo Code to Busabase

Autonomous coding agent for VS Code with per-project and global MCP settings.

Paste this into Roo 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 Roo Code 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.

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
Roo Code
How it connects
MCP + API key · Plugin / Skill
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Authentication
API key
Config file
~/.roo/mcp.json (project) / mcp_settings.json (global)

Open the Roo Code pane's settings icon, scroll to the MCP section, and click Edit Global MCP or Edit Project MCP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "busabase": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://busabase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_BUSABASE_API_KEY>"
      },
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

Then ask the agent to call auth_verify. Create the API key at a changeRequest permission level so Roo can propose but not merge.

Known gotchas

Roo Code does not start the OAuth flow even when the server answers 401 with a `WWW-Authenticate` header — Busabase does exactly that, so the connection simply fails rather than prompting you to sign in. Use a Busabase API key in `headers` instead. Upstream: RooCodeInc/Roo-Code issue #7296 (bug) and #8119 (OAuth 2.1 discovery + PKCE enhancement); Roo currently relies on the `mcp-remote` bridge for OAuth. Also note project-level `.roo/mcp.json` overrides the global settings, so check both if a stale server keeps loading.

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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 Roo 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.