Connect your coding agent

• baseten (https://api.baseten.co/mcp) operates your Baseten workspace. The agent can list and manage models, deployments, environments, training jobs, secrets, and chains. This server requires a management API key.
• baseten_docs (https://docs.baseten.co/mcp) searches these docs for up to date information.

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Install

1. Create a dedicated key with management permissions in your API key settings. A dedicated key lets you revoke agent access without affecting inference or other tools.
2. Set it in your shell so the installer can read it:
   macOS / Linux

   Windows PowerShell

   Windows cmd

   export BASETEN_MCP_KEY=...
   
   To persist the key, add the line to your shell profile (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc). On Windows, run setx BASETEN_MCP_KEY "...".
3. Run these commands in a shell that exports BASETEN_MCP_KEY. -g installs for every detected tool. -y skips prompts:
   macOS / Linux

   Windows PowerShell

   Windows cmd

   npx skills add basetenlabs/baseten-skills -g -y
   npx add-mcp https://api.baseten.co/mcp -g -y --header "Authorization: Bearer ${BASETEN_MCP_KEY}"
   npx add-mcp https://docs.baseten.co/mcp -n baseten_docs -g -y
   
4. Restart your agent.

Install the Baseten agent toolkit following the instructions at github.com/basetenlabs/baseten-skills, all global (-g -y):
the `baseten` skill, the backend MCP https://api.baseten.co/mcp with header "Authorization: Bearer $BASETEN_MCP_KEY", and the docs MCP https://docs.baseten.co/mcp.
Run the commands in a shell that exports BASETEN_MCP_KEY; don't print the key. Then tell me how to verify and whether to restart.

baseten         ✔ connected
baseten_docs    ✔ connected

{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": ["Read(~/.claude/skills/**)"]
  }
}

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Configure a specific agent

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "baseten": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.baseten.co/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${BASETEN_MCP_KEY}" }
    },
    "baseten_docs": { "type": "http", "url": "https://docs.baseten.co/mcp" }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "baseten": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.baseten.co/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${BASETEN_MCP_KEY}" }
    },
    "baseten_docs": { "type": "http", "url": "https://docs.baseten.co/mcp" }
  }
}

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Next steps

Pull docs into an agent without MCP

Append .md to any docs URL for clean Markdown, or use llms.txt (page index) and llms-full.txt. The Copy page button at the top-right of any page copies it as Markdown or opens it as plain text:

These docs also auto-host a lightweight single-file skill at docs.baseten.co/skill.md (npx skills add https://docs.baseten.co). Use it only where you can’t install the baseten skill from the repo.