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Notebooklm Skill

Notebooklm Skill is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. NotebookLM does the research, Claude writes the content. It has 483 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx notebooklm-skill.

github.com/claude-world/notebooklm-skill (opens in a new tab)

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Install Notebooklm Skill

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notebooklm-skill": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "notebooklm-skill"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio notebooklm-skill -- uvx notebooklm-skill

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notebooklm-skill": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "notebooklm-skill"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "notebooklm-skill": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "notebooklm-skill"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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).

About Notebooklm Skill

Source-grounded NotebookLM automation for terminals and AI agents. notebooklm-skill gives humans and MCP clients one consistent interface for Google NotebookLM. It creates notebooks from URLs, raw text, and local files; asks grounded questions with citation metadata; completes fast or deep web research; and generates or downloads NotebookLM artifacts.

  • ai-research
  • claude-code
  • claude-code-skill
  • content-pipeline
  • mcp-server
  • notebooklm
  • notebooklm-py
  • podcast-generator

FAQ

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How do I install the Notebooklm Skill MCP server?

Add the command uvx notebooklm-skill 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 Notebooklm Skill free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Notebooklm Skill actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 21, 2026. The latest release is v1.4.0, published Oct 21, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.