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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.

  • How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • 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.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Basecamp once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Basecamp.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. 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.

basecamp
Basecamp
Airtable
Asana
Autotask
ClickUp
ConnectWise PSA
2

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.

Basecamp MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Basecamp MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Basecamp MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    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

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

See all 104 Basecamp tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Basecamp

All three can connect Basecamp to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Basecamp, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Basecamp tools Allow or restrict single Basecamp tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Basecamp call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Basecamp tools for your AI agents

104 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.

See it in Elaichi

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.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

104 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
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Basecamp people List Get all people visible to the current user in Basecamp. Returns fields including id, name, email_address, title, bio, location, admin status, employee status, time_zone, avatar_url, and company details.
Get single Basecamp person by ID Get Get person profile by id in Basecamp. Returns id, name, email_address, personable_type, title, created_at, updated_at, admin, owner, client, employee, time_zone, avatar_url, can_manage_projects, and can_manage_people fields.
List all Basecamp projects List Get all active projects visible to the current user in Basecamp. Returns project id, status, created_at, updated_at, name, description, purpose, clients_enabled, bookmark_url, url, app_url, dock details, and bookmarked status.
Get single Basecamp project by ID Get Get a project by id in Basecamp. Returns id, status, created_at, updated_at, name, description, purpose, clients_enabled, bookmark_url, url, app_url, and dock array with current tools and their enabled status and URLs.
Create a Basecamp project Create Create a new project in Basecamp with name and description. Returns the created project's JSON representation. Note: Free accounts have a project limit and will receive a 507 error if exceeded.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Basecamp toolbox.

Curate a scoped Basecamp toolbox per team and hand it to them.

  • Engineering
  • Design
  • Support
  • Marketing
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Engineering toolbox

Basecamp · projects and todo lists

Basecamp starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Design toolbox

Basecamp · project todos and assets

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Support toolbox

Basecamp · todos raised from tickets

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Marketing toolbox

Basecamp · campaign projects and todos

Basecamp starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Operations toolbox

Basecamp · people and project access

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Leadership toolbox

Basecamp · project status across teams

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

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
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
BA

Basecamp (Engineering)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
BA

Basecamp (Client Projects)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
BA

Basecamp (Support EMEA)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
BA

Basecamp (Marketing)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
BA

Basecamp (Operations)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
BA

Basecamp (Leadership)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

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
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

emily.carter@northwind.io

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

jake.morgan@northwind.io

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

megan.brooks@northwind.io

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

tyler.reed@northwind.io

Basecamp Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

ryan.hayes@northwind.io

Basecamp Projects Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

ashley.parker@northwind.io

Basecamp Projects List Toolbox

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 Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch projects

    Basecamp

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. 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

Live

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%

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 my team share one Basecamp connection?

Yes. One person connects Basecamp in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles a password or a token. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every to-do created or comment posted in Basecamp is recorded in the audit log under the name of the person who did it.

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.

Does the Basecamp MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Basecamp is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Basecamp?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Basecamp. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Basecamp call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Basecamp?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Basecamp: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Basecamp in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.