# base44-sandbox

Guides an agent building Base44 apps in a cloud sandbox without a local checkout or manual deployment commands.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 8300 installs · ★ 91
- Author: base44
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/base44/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/base44-sandbox

## What it does

This skill explains how to work on a Base44 app in a remote cloud sandbox. Your agent reads, edits, and runs files through MCP or `base44 sandbox`, so a local project checkout is not part of the workflow.

Writing a resource file syncs it to the remote app automatically. The skill covers backend functions, actors, entities, and agents; a backend function uses `entry.ts` under `base44/functions/<name>/`, with a kebab-case directory name. Frontend files can be edited normally and appear in preview.

OAuth connectors are configured separately through MCP tools or `base44 connectors` with `--app-id`. This is a remote-authoring skill, so `base44 deploy` and `push` commands do not fit its workflow.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add base44/skills --skill base44-sandbox -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/base44-sandbox/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add base44/skills --skill base44-sandbox -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add base44/skills --skill base44-sandbox -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install base44/skills base44-sandbox
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add base44/skills --skill base44-sandbox -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/base44/skills --path skills/base44-sandbox
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add base44/skills --skill base44-sandbox -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/base44/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/base44-sandbox/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a Base44 app without a local checkout
- add a backend function through `entry.ts`
- create an actor for a shared realtime session
- sync an entity schema or agent configuration
- configure an OAuth connector for a remote app

## Example prompts
- Develop my Base44 app in the cloud sandbox with no local files.
- Create a remote Base44 backend function with `entry.ts`.
- Connect an OAuth connector to my remote Base44 app through MCP.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: base44-sandbox
description: "Develop a Base44 app remotely inside Base44's cloud sandbox using your own agent — no local checkout and no deploy/push commands. The implementation is remote: writing a resource file into the sandbox is what ships it (backend functions, realtime actors, entities, and agents all auto-sync from the file you write), and OAuth connectors are set up against the remote app via MCP tools or the projectless `base44 connectors` CLI. This skill is the place for learning what you can author in the sandbox, how backend functions, actors, entities, and agents are structured, and how to connect a connector without a local filesystem. Triggers on 'develop my Base44 app remotely', 'no local files', 'cloud sandbox', 'create an entity/agent remotely', 'add realtime/multiplayer/presence remotely', 'connect a connector remotely', 'bring my own agent', or any work editing a Base44 app inside a sandbox."
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# Base44 in the Cloud Sandbox

Author Base44 app code **inside Base44's cloud sandbox** with your own coding agent. There is no local checkout: you read, write, and run files through the sandbox tools (over MCP or the `base44 sandbox` CLI), and the platform builds and deploys from what you write.

For **how to connect** to the sandbox (MCP endpoint or the `base44 sandbox` CLI, the `read_file` / `write_file` / `edit_file` / `run_command` / `grep` / `list_directory` / `create_checkpoint` tools — which the CLI exposes under shorter names (`sandbox read` / `sandbox write` / `sandbox edit` / `sandbox run` / `sandbox grep` / `sandbox ls` / `sandbox checkpoint`), the edit→preview→verify loop, persistence, and concurrency), use the **`base44-remote-dev`** skill. This skill covers **what you can author and how** once you are connected.

> **Check these references first.** This skill and its siblings (`base44-remote-dev`, `base44-sdk`) are the source of truth — consult them before searching the web. See [Reference order & the complete README](#reference-order--the-complete-readme).

## ⚡ The mental model: writing the file *is* the deploy

You are working on a **remote** app, not a local checkout. The project-level CLI workflow does **not** apply — never run `base44 deploy`, `base44 functions deploy`, `base44 actors deploy`, `base44 actors delete`, `base44 ... push`, `base44 create`, or `base44 scaffold`. They assume a local project and a manual deploy step that does not exist here.

Instead: **as soon as you write a resource file into the sandbox — a backend function, an actor, an entity, or an agent — the platform deploys/syncs it from there.** Your write is auto-committed (~5s debounce) and goes live. You do not run, and must not wait for, any `deploy` / `push` command.

**One exception — connectors.** OAuth connectors aren't authored as files; they're set up against the remote app by its id, either with the MCP connector tools or with the dedicated, projectless `base44 connectors` commands (which take `--app-id` and need no local project). See [Connectors](#connectors-oauth-integrations) below.
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