🪐 ✨ Jupyter MCP Server

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

Start JupyterLab

Make sure you have the following installed. The modifications made on the notebook can be seen thanks to Jupyter Real Time Collaboration (RTC).

pip install jupyterlab jupyter-collaboration ipykernel

Then, start JupyterLab with the following command:

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

Note

The --ip is set to 0.0.0.0 to allow the MCP server running in a Docker container to access your local JupyterLab.

Usage with Claude Desktop

To use this with Claude Desktop, add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json:

Important

Ensure the port of the SERVER_URLand TOKEN match those used in the jupyter lab command. The NOTEBOOK_PATH should be relative to the directory where JupyterLab was started.

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"
      }
    }
  }
}

Components

Tools

The server currently offers 2 tools:

1. add_execute_code_cell

• Add and execute a code cell in a Jupyter notebook.
• Input:
  • cell_content(string): Code to be executed
• Returns: Success message

2. add_markdown_cell

• Add a markdown cell in a Jupyter notebook.
• Input:
  • cell_content(string): Markdown content
• Returns: Success message

Building

docker build -t datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server .

Installing via Smithery

To install Jupyter MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server --client claude