jupyter-notebook
- Use it when:
- You want a new .ipynb notebook, or rough notes, a script or a messy notebook turned into one that others can read and re-run.
- It does:
- Picks an experiment or a tutorial layout, scaffolds the file from a bundled template with a Python script, then fills it with small cells, each explained in Markdown.
- You get:
- A notebook with a descriptive filename, run top to bottom when the environment allows, or a note on how to validate it locally.
- Needs:
- uv and Python 3.12 for the scaffold script, which uses only the standard library; JupyterLab and ipykernel only to execute the notebook.
- Runs from:
- Codex's skills folder: its script path assumes ~/.codex/skills unless CODEX_HOME says otherwise.
TL;DR
A notebook skill from OpenAI's catalog of Codex skills. It has two kinds of notebook: experiment, for exploratory, analytical or hypothesis-driven work, and tutorial, for step-by-step teaching aimed at an audience; editing an existing notebook counts as a refactor that keeps its intent. The agent first pins down the kind, the objective, the audience and what done looks like, then runs new_notebook.py, which loads the matching template, sets the title cell and writes the notebook, so no raw notebook JSON is written by hand. Each code cell does one step, with a short Markdown cell giving its purpose and expected result, and short summaries replace large, noisy outputs. Experiments and tutorials each follow their own patterns file, raw JSON edits go through a notebook-structure guide first, and a quality checklist closes the work. In existing notebooks it prefers targeted edits to rewrites and reorders cells only when that improves the top-to-bottom story. Intermediate files go in tmp/jupyter-notebook/ and are deleted when done. The openai/skills repository is marked deprecated; its README points to openai/plugins for current Codex skills.
Summarizes the skill at 49f948f.
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/skills --skill jupyter-notebook Fewer weekly downloads than 79% of skills
Weekly values
| Week to | Installs |
|---|---|
| Sep 21 | 203 |
| Sep 28 | 179 |
| Oct 5 | 228 |
| Oct 12 | 156 |
| Oct 19 | 149 |
| Oct 26 | 131 |
| Nov 2 | 143 |
| Nov 9 | 106 |
Fewer downloads than 76% of skills
More stars than 71% of repos
Older than 74% of skills
| Category |
Research reproduction, financial data, charts and diagrams. Office files, notes and suites like Lark and Google Workspace. |
|---|---|
| Type |
A multi-step process the agent follows: interview, debug, run a TDD loop, review. |
| Effect |
Its own steps create or change files, git state or local tools. |
| Needs |
A specific command-line tool or desktop app must be installed, such as gh, agent-browser, LibreOffice, Obsidian or a vendor CLI. |
| Publisher |
A verified publisher on skills.sh, or the company or maintainer behind the product the skill operates. |
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