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+name: Build google colab notebooks
+run-name: ${{ github.actor }} is building colab notebooks from regular notebooks
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+  add_nbs:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - run: echo "The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."
+      - name: Check out the repository to the runner
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4  
+      - name: Run the colab build script
+        run: python build/colab_nb_builder.py --directory notebooks
+      - run: echo "Job status is ${{ job.status }}"