Basecamp Doctor

SkillSecurity

Diagnose Basecamp CLI, authentication, and agent-plugin health.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Basecamp Doctor skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by basecamp/skills in skills/basecamp-doctor/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Run the structured diagnostic:

basecamp doctor --json

Interpret every check by status:

  • pass: working correctly.
  • warn: usable, but follow-up is recommended.
  • skip: not run because it is unauthenticated or not applicable.
  • fail: broken and needs attention.

Report failures and warnings with their hint fields. Also inspect the top-level breadcrumbs array and preserve its structured cmd next steps, because a breadcrumb can provide a more specific action than a check hint. Use these common remediations when relevant:

  • Basecamp authentication: basecamp auth login. Guard a replacement login with --expect-identity <id> so a browser signed in as someone else cannot become the profile. A bot or CI profile that must never sign in interactively imports a personal access token instead: op read "op://<vault>/<item>/credential" | basecamp auth login --with-token -P <profile> --account <id> --expect-identity <id>
  • Agent plugin installation or version: basecamp setup agents (honors BASECAMP_SETUP_AGENT)
  • Codex plugin specifically: basecamp setup codex
  • Claude Code plugin specifically: basecamp setup claude

Every remediation above runs without a terminal. Bare basecamp setup is the human first-time flow and is not one of them: it opens browser OAuth and refuses with a usage error in machine-output modes or unless stdin, stdout, and stderr are all terminals. basecamp setup --customize additionally asks the user to choose each default. Suggest either to a human at a terminal if useful, but never run them yourself — use the subcommands above.

Do not read, print, or request credential files. If every check passes, say that Basecamp and its agent integration are ready.

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Sep 2026
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