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Baseline Core
Open-source skills system that wires your business into AI
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Open-source skills system that wires your business into AI
75 followers
Baseline Core is an open-source skills system for AI agents. Run one command and your AI tools can research markets, write PRDs, plan sprints, and design user flows -- all grounded in your business context. 12 skills, 14 frameworks, 34 reference files. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot. Free forever.
Hey everyone! I'm Trent, founder of Baseline Studio. I research how product teams can work better with AI.
Baseline Core is a free, open-source skills system that wires your business context into any AI tool. You run one command, answer a few questions about your business, and your AI agents can start doing real product work -- research, PRDs, sprint planning, user flows, design, prototyping, positioning, and more.
It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot. Tool-agnostic by design.
I built this because I kept seeing founders and small teams either skip product work entirely or get generic AI output that didn't sound like their business. Baseline fixes that.
Would love to hear what you think. Happy to answer any questions!
@baseline_studio On the skills side, what does a Baseline Core skill look like under the hood, is ux-design just markdown in skills/, or can a skill run code too? The npx @baseline-studio/cli init scaffold that drops skills/, context/, frameworks/, and AGENTS.md feels like the right path for tool-agnostic use across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Copilot. The trust builder for teams is drift control, version skills plus core/voice.md, stamp outputs with the versions used, and ship a tiny eval set so a tweak doesn't silently change PRDs or sprint plans.
@baseline @piroune_balachandran Great question. A skill is a markdown file with a YAML manifest. The manifest tells the AI which context and reference files to load when the skill runs. So it's not just one file, it's a skill file plus supporting references that all load together. Everything is markdown, no code execution. The AI tools themselves can run code through their own capabilities, but Baseline is purely the knowledge and methodology layer.
The drift control idea is really interesting. The system is versioned at the repo level right now, but stamping outputs with skill versions is something I want to explore. Appreciate the feedback.
@baseline_studio Trent, how flexible is the configuration regarding what exactly gets fed into the context? For example, if I'm making a skill for DB refactoring, can I feed it only the database schema and migrations, ignoring the marketing docs? I want to keep the focus narrow so the model doesn't get distracted or start hallucinating
Trent showed me this system about a month ago and I've been experimenting with it since then; and my honest take is, this is a great unlock! With this system I have been able to supercharge my claude-code usage (tbh I also got into claude-code because of this system) to the extent where I am effectively only reviewing PRs now! Another thing this has really done for me is unblock me on all the non-technical tasks (like voice and communication or customer profile and positioning) and concretely articulated my ideas and documented them! I am now adapting the @Baseline Core system to fit my exact workflow and exploring how I can build without any employees but with the impact of a team of ten.. That is what this system truly unlocks!!
@isthispalash This is incredible feedback. The fact that you've gone from experimenting with it to adapting it to your own workflow is exactly what the system is designed for. The context layer is what makes that possible. Once it knows your business, every skill gets more specific to how you work. The "impact of a team of ten" framing is something I think about constantly, that's the real unlock here. Not replacing people, but giving a solo founder or small team the structured output that used to require dedicated roles across product, design, marketing, and strategy. Really appreciate you sharing this!
This is awesome! Does it integrate with OpenClaw? How did you curate the skills?
@dan__cleary Thank you! I haven't used OpenClaw yet, but Baseline is modular by design. The skills, frameworks, and context files are all standalone markdown, so in theory they should be portable into other systems but I'd love to explore that more!
As for how I curated the skills, they come from my experience across the full product development spectrum. Each one maps to a phase of pre-engineering product work that I've done hands-on and refined across client engagements.