Colab MCP

An MCP server for bridging your local agent to a Colab session in the browser.

Requirements

This MCP server requires:

• Client support for notifications/tools/list_changed
• Client to be running locally on your device

Supported Clients

Popular clients that fit these criteria include:

• Gemini CLI
• Claude Code
• Windsurf

Setup

Install uv if you don't have it:

pip install uv

Configure for usage in your MCP configuration (e.g., mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "colab-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["git+https://github.com/googlecolab/colab-mcp"],
      "timeout": 30000
    }
  }
}

Note for Googlers: If you have a non-standard default package index, you may need to add --index https://pypi.org/simple to the args.

Issues & Support

GitHub discussions is the place for issue discussion and feature requests. Please do NOT open issues directly - use discussions instead.