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MCP server for interactive control of Jupyter notebooks in JupyterLab environments

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🪐✨ Jupyter MCP Server

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Jupyter MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides interaction with 📓 Jupyter notebooks running in any JupyterLab (works also with your 💻 local JupyterLab).

🚀 Key Features

  • Real-time control: Instantly view notebook changes as they happen.
  • 🔁 Smart execution: Automatically adjusts when a cell run fails thanks to cell output feedback.
  • 🤝 MCP-Compatible: Works with any MCP client, such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.

Jupyter MCP Server Demo

Explore our Tools documentation to learn about the tools powering Jupyter MCP Server.

🏁 Getting Started

Follow our Setup Guide or use the quick steps below:

1. Set Up Your Environment

pip install jupyterlab==4.4.1 jupyter-collaboration==4.0.2 ipykernel pip uninstall -y pycrdt datalayer_pycrdt pip install datalayer_pycrdt==0.12.17

2. Start JupyterLab

jupyter lab --port 8888 --IdentityProvider.token MY_TOKEN --ip 0.0.0.0

3. Configure Your Preferred MCP Client

MacOS and Windows

{ "mcpServers": { "jupyter": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "SERVER_URL", "-e", "TOKEN", "-e", "NOTEBOOK_PATH", "datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server:latest" ], "env": { "SERVER_URL": "http://host.docker.internal:8888", "TOKEN": "MY_TOKEN", "NOTEBOOK_PATH": "notebook.ipynb" } } } }

Linux

{ "mcpServers": { "jupyter": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "SERVER_URL", "-e", "TOKEN", "-e", "NOTEBOOK_PATH", "--network=host", "datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server:latest" ], "env": { "SERVER_URL": "http://localhost:8888", "TOKEN": "MY_TOKEN", "NOTEBOOK_PATH": "notebook.ipynb" } } } }

For detailed instructions on configuring various MCP clients—including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, and Windsurf—see the Clients documentation.

📚 Resources

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