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Basecamp

Set up camp. Basecamp is your personal operations center — it syncs your email and calendar, builds a knowledge graph, drafts responses, prepares meeting briefs, and organizes your files. All running as scheduled AI tasks in the background.

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Everything you and your team know, in one place. Basecamp is a scheduler that runs Claude Code tasks on a timer — syncing data, extracting entities, drafting emails, preparing for meetings. No server, no database — just plain files, markdown, and Claude. Your knowledge base is Obsidian-compatible, your config is JSON, and everything is transparent.

What you get

Automatic email and calendar sync from Apple Mail and Calendar
A knowledge graph of people, organizations, projects, and topics
AI-drafted email responses that use your full context
Meeting preparation briefings before every call
Presentation generation from markdown to PDF
File organization and cleanup on autopilot
A macOS status menu showing what's running

Who it's for

Busy engineers and managers who want an AI assistant that actually knows their context — who they work with, what projects are active, and what's coming up next.

Anyone on macOS who wants a set-and-forget knowledge system that runs quietly in the background and keeps getting smarter about your work.

Built-in Skills

Skill	What it does
Sync Apple Mail	Reads email threads from Mail.app via SQLite
Sync Apple Calendar	Reads upcoming events from Calendar.app
Extract Entities	Processes synced data into a knowledge graph
Draft Emails	Writes response drafts using your full context
Meeting Prep	Creates briefings before upcoming meetings
Create Presentations	Generates PDF slide decks from markdown
Document Collab	Assists with document creation and editing
Organize Files	Cleans up and organizes your files

Prerequisites

Basecamp spawns claude as a subprocess without loading your shell profile. Install Claude Code via Homebrew (brew install claude) rather than the native binary — the Homebrew install runs on Node.js, which supports NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS for enterprise CA certificates.

If your network requires a custom CA bundle, add an env block to ~/.fit/basecamp/scheduler.json:

{
  "env": {
    "NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS": "~/.config/ssl/ca-bundle.pem"
  }
}

Quick Start

npx fit-basecamp --init ~/Documents/Team   # Initialize knowledge base
npx fit-basecamp --daemon                   # Start the scheduler
npx fit-basecamp --status                   # Check what's happening
npx fit-basecamp --run sync-mail            # Run a task now

macOS Privacy & Security

Basecamp agents need access to specific folders (Documents, Mail, Calendar). When macOS prompts, grant only the folders each process needs via System Settings → Privacy & Security → Files & Folders:

Basecamp.app — the TCC responsible process (Swift launcher)
node — runs skill scripts with #!/usr/bin/env node shebangs
"2.1.72" (or another version number) — this is the Claude Code CLI. macOS shows its version string instead of a name. Safe to grant per-folder access.