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Summary
Drive Basecamp 4 (project & team collaboration) from any AI agent: projects, todo lists, todos, messages, comments, people. 12 tools, OAuth2 Bearer auth.
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Example prompts for Basecamp
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
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Basecamp + Cursor
Drive Basecamp 4 (project & team collaboration) from any AI agent: projects, todo lists, todos, messages, comments, people. 12 tools, OAuth2 Bearer auth.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
BASECAMP_ACCESS_TOKEN, BASECAMP_ACCOUNT_ID
Step 1 — Get credentials
com — github.com/basecamp/bc3-api).
Setup:
- Register an integration at https://launchpad.37signals.com/integrations.
- Implement OAuth2 authorization-code flow with
https://launchpad.37signals.com/authorization(response includes user's account_id). - Set
BASECAMP_ACCESS_TOKENto the obtained access token. - Set
BASECAMP_ACCOUNT_IDto your Basecamp account ID (a 6-9 digit number — visible in any Basecamp URL or returned by the OAuth identity endpoint).
Authentication: Authorization: Bearer ${BASECAMP_ACCESS_TOKEN}.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Cursor
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:
{
"mcpServers": {
"anythingmcp": {
"url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
"headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
}
}
}
- Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
- Save the file and restart Cursor.
- Open Cursor → Settings → MCP to verify
Basecampis listed and "Connected". - Start chatting — all
Basecamptools are now invokable.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
basecamp_get_my_profile | Return the authenticated user's profile (id, name, email_address, time_zone, avatar_url, can_manage_projects, etc |
basecamp_list_projects | List active projects (Basecamps) the user has access to |
basecamp_get_project | Fetch a single project with its dock — the array of tools (todoset, message_board, etc |
basecamp_list_todolists | List todolists within a project's todoset |
basecamp_list_todos | List todos in a todolist |
basecamp_create_todo | Create a todo in a todolist |
basecamp_complete_todo | Mark a todo as completed |
basecamp_uncomplete_todo | Reopen a completed todo |
basecamp_list_messages | List messages on the project's message board |
basecamp_post_message | Post a new message on the project's message board |
basecamp_add_comment | Add a comment to a recording (todo, message, document, etc |
basecamp_get_people | List all people in the Basecamp account |
FAQ
Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.
Next steps
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