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Jupyter MCP Server

Jupyter MCP Server is an MCP server that adds data and analytics tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. 🪐 🔧 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Jupyter. It has 1,312 GitHub stars, is released under the BSD-3-Clause license and runs locally with uvx jupyter_mcp_server.

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Install Jupyter MCP Server

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jupyter-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "jupyter_mcp_server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "JUPYTER_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env JUPYTER_TOKEN=your-value --transport stdio jupyter-mcp-server -- uvx jupyter_mcp_server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jupyter-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "jupyter_mcp_server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "JUPYTER_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "jupyter_token",
      "description": "JUPYTER_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "jupyter-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "jupyter_mcp_server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "JUPYTER_TOKEN": "${input:jupyter_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
JUPYTER_URLNoShown in the README's example configuration.
JUPYTER_TOKENsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.
ALLOW_IMG_OUTPUTNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About Jupyter MCP Server

An MCP server developed for AI to connect and manage Jupyter Notebooks in real-time — and scale your Code Sandbox from local to the cloud (Datalayer, Kaggle, Google Colab, Modal, Daytona, E2B, CoreWeave, Cloudflare...)

  • jupyter
  • mcp-server
  • ai
  • mcp
  • tools

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How do I install the Jupyter MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command uvx jupyter_mcp_server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Jupyter MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the BSD-3-Clause license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (JUPYTER_TOKEN) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Jupyter MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. The latest release is v2.2.4, published Oct 11, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.