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 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.

Install the Busabase skills

npx skills add busabase/skills

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.

Amp MCP documentation

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 (or settings.jsonc; Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.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. The MCP docs have moved from ampcode.com/manual to ampcode.com/docs/customize/mcp: Amp now tries a Client ID Metadata Document (CIMD) first and falls back to dynamic client registration, so auth-mode stays oauth-dynamic-registration for Busabase. Browser-based OAuth is unavailable in orbs (Amp's headless environments) — use headers/secrets or remote MCP definitions there. The settings file can also be settings.jsonc (Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.config\amp\settings.json).

How it compares

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

Capability	Amp	Claude Code	Cursor
Type	Terminal agents	Terminal agents	AI editors
Recommended path	Agent Skill	Agent Skill	Agent Skill
How it connects	Plugin / Skill · MCP + OAuth	MCP + OAuth · Plugin / Skill	MCP + OAuth · Plugin / Skill
Transport	Streamable HTTP	Streamable HTTP	Streamable HTTP
Authentication	OAuth (dynamic registration)	OAuth (dynamic registration)	OAuth (dynamic registration)

These stepsFrom official docsLast checked Nov 10, 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.

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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.