Baseline Core comes from Baseline Studio, an agent-native studio in New York founded by designer and builder Trent Mitchell. Its central idea is simple: an agent is only as good as the context it can reach, so the studio builds the systems around the model — how context is organized, how rules are documented, and how knowledge surfaces when the agent needs it.
Baseline Core is the flagship of that idea for product teams. It is a product system you can drop into almost any AI tool: 12 skills, 14 frameworks, and 34 reference files covering research, strategy, specifications, design, and planning. It is delivered through a command-line interface and loaded into any AI tool that reads an AGENTS.md file, meaning an assistant can generate product requirements, research summaries, and strategy documents informed by your own methodology and business context rather than generic templates.
Baseline Studio also publishes related open-source projects. The Runtime Classifier encodes creative style as runtime rules across an eight-dimension framework, and the Personal Assistant Agent is a Claude Managed Agent for always-on inbox triage that ingests Gmail, Slack, Granola, and Notion. Baseline Core itself is open source under the MIT license, so teams can read, fork, and extend it, and the studio continues to develop more projects at the intersection of creativity and AI.
