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Basecamp MCP connector
Connect Basecamp to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client can read and update your Basecamp projects, to-do lists, to-dos, comments, and card tables as the person who signed in, with every action logged.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect Basecamp to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Basecamp once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Basecamp.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Basecamp. Basecamp's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect Basecamp to Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect Basecamp to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect Basecamp to Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Basecamp to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Basecamp through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Operations
Set up a new project in minutes
Describe the kickoff and the agent creates the Basecamp project, adds the to-do lists your team always uses, and fills in the first round of to-dos with owners and due dates.
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Marketing
Turn a campaign brief into to-dos
Paste the brief and get a to-do list in the right Basecamp project, one to-do per deliverable, so nobody has to type the plan in by hand.
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Client services
Catch a client up on project status
Ask what changed in a client's Basecamp project this week and get a plain summary of completed to-dos, open items, and the latest comments, ready to paste into an email.
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Product
See where every card sits
Pull the cards from a Basecamp card table, ask which column is piling up, and add a new column when the workflow changes, without opening each card.
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Design
Reply to feedback in the thread
Read the comments on a to-do, draft a reply that answers each point, and post it back to Basecamp under your own name after a quick look.
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Leadership
Find who is carrying the most work
List the people in your Basecamp account, see which projects and to-dos they are assigned to, and spot the person with too much on their plate before the deadline slips.
Try asking
- “Which Basecamp todos are overdue across active projects?”
- “List todo lists in the Website Redesign project.”
- “Create a Basecamp todo for the Q3 launch checklist.”
AI tools
Basecamp tools for your AI agents
103 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Basecamp, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Basecamp gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Basecamp account.
The agent
Ask about Basecamp todos, get real answers.
Plain language questions run against live Basecamp projects, todo lists and people.
- projects
- todos
- todo lists
- people
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which Basecamp todos are overdue across active projects?
List todo lists in the Website Redesign project.
Create a Basecamp todo for the Q3 launch checklist.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Basecamp.
One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
103 Basecamp tools ready to call.
Projects, todos, todo lists and people are covered without custom code.
- List all Basecamp people
- Get single Basecamp person by ID
- List all Basecamp projects
- Get single Basecamp project by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Basecamp toolbox.
Curate a scoped Basecamp toolbox per team and hand it to them.
- Engineering
- Design
- Support
- Marketing
Shared connections
Share a Basecamp account, not its password.
Teammates work through a connection while the Basecamp credential stays hidden.
- Engineering
- Client Projects
- Support EMEA
- Marketing
Audit log
Every Basecamp call is on the record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each todo and project.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule drafts your Basecamp digest.
Fetch todos, group them, draft a digest, approve, post back to Basecamp.
Basecamp digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch projects
Basecamp
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
Basecamp
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Basecamp health, counted not summarized.
Four metrics, 14 days of todos created and a team breakdown, refreshed hourly.
Basecamp health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the projects collection
Projects
1,284 ↓ 12%
Todos
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Projects created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Engineering 34%
Client Projects 27%
Support EMEA 21%
Marketing 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Basecamp to Claude?
Two steps. In Elaichi, choose Basecamp and sign in to your Basecamp account in the normal Basecamp window; it connects over OAuth, so there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint. Claude will ask you to sign in to Elaichi, and from then on it can work with your Basecamp projects and to-dos.
Does Basecamp work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Basecamp is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Basecamp once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Basecamp data?
It can look up people, projects, to-do lists, to-dos, comments, and card tables in Basecamp, and it can create projects, to-do lists, to-dos, comments, and card table columns or update them. In practice that means asking for a status summary of a project, turning a meeting note into to-dos with owners and due dates, or posting a reply in a comment thread. Because Basecamp has a lot of actions, short concrete asks like "add a to-do to the launch list for Priya, due Friday" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Basecamp give the AI every project in my account?
No. The agent only sees the Basecamp projects, to-dos, and comments that the person who signed in can already see, because every request runs as that person. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to reading only, or to a set of actions, but it can never grant access to a Basecamp project the person could not open themselves.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Basecamp?
Yes. In Elaichi you restrict Basecamp action by action, so you can block deleting projects, or block every change and allow reading only. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Basecamp connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to Basecamp through every AI client ends at once. If they had shared a Basecamp connection with a team, that connection keeps working for everyone else. If you want Basecamp gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client at the same time.
Put Basecamp in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.