Base44: Agent Skills with Troubleshooter and Global Installation

Overview

Base44 shipped a significant update to its agent skills ecosystem on February 28, 2026, introducing a new troubleshooter skill and expanding installation options to support global (user-level) installs. The update also marks the completion of full documentation for all three core Base44 skills.

What Are Base44 Skills?

Base44 skills are reusable instruction sets that extend the capabilities of AI coding agents — tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode. They follow the open Agent Skills specification, which defines SKILL.md files containing structured metadata and instructions that agents can discover and apply during development sessions.

When a developer works on a Base44 project with an AI coding agent, the relevant skills are automatically available to guide the agent through Base44-specific workflows — from initializing a project to diagnosing production bugs.

New: Global Installation

Previously, skills were automatically included only in CLI-created projects. With this update, developers can now install Base44 skills at the user level, making them available across all projects on their machine:

npx skills add base44/skills -g

This is particularly useful for developers who work across multiple Base44 projects or who want their AI agent to have Base44 context available regardless of whether the project was initialized through the CLI. Project-level skills still take precedence over globally installed ones, so existing project configurations are unaffected.

The Three Core Skills

base44-cli

The base44-cli skill equips agents with the knowledge to manage Base44 projects from the command line. It covers the full project lifecycle: creating projects from templates, defining entity schemas with field types and row-level security rules, configuring backend functions and automations, setting up AI agents with tool permissions, establishing OAuth connectors to external services like Google Calendar, Slack, and Notion, generating TypeScript types, and deploying to production hosting.

base44-sdk

The base44-sdk skill focuses on frontend and application-layer development after a project has been initialized. It helps agents build code that interacts with entities, implement authentication and user management, integrate AI agents into applications, call backend functions from the frontend, use email and file upload integrations, create real-time features via subscriptions, and leverage OAuth connectors for external service access.

base44-troubleshooter (New)

The new base44-troubleshooter skill addresses production debugging directly within the agent workflow. When a developer asks their AI assistant to diagnose a production issue, the troubleshooter skill enables the agent to:

• Fetch backend function logs with filtering by function name, log level, and time range
• Identify errors across all functions in a project
• Analyze stack traces and error messages
• Correlate timestamps with reported user issues

This skill closes a practical gap in the AI-assisted development loop — developers can now go from receiving a bug report to analyzing the relevant production logs without switching context out of their coding agent.

Installation Options

Base44 skills can be installed in several ways depending on the agent being used:

For Claude Code, installation can be done via the plugin marketplace:

claude plugin install base44@base44-skills

For Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and other agents supporting the Agent Skills specification:

# Install for current project
npx skills add base44/skills

# Install globally (user-level, all projects)
npx skills add base44/skills -g

Skills are kept in sync with the CLI version by re-running the same install command. The Base44 skills repository is available at github.com/base44/skills under the MIT license.