How to use colab mcp?

1. Install a compatible MCP client (like Claude Desktop). 2. Open your configuration settings. 3. Add colab mcp using the following command: npx @modelcontextprotocol/colab-mcp 4. Restart the client and verify the new tools are active.

🛡️ Scoped (Restricted)

npx @modelcontextprotocol/colab-mcp --scope restricted

🔓 Unrestricted Access

npx @modelcontextprotocol/colab-mcp

colab mcp FAQ

Is colab mcp safe?

Yes, colab mcp follows the standardized Model Context Protocol security patterns and only executes tools with explicit user-granted permissions.

Is colab mcp up to date?

colab mcp is currently active in the registry with 369 stars on GitHub, indicating its reliability and community support.

Are there any limits for colab mcp?

Usage limits depend on the specific implementation of the MCP server and your system resources. Refer to the official documentation below for technical details.

Colab-mcp

An MCP server for interacting with Colab.

Setup

Install uv (pip install uv)
Configure for usage (eg for mcp.json style services):

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

(If you have a non-standard default package index (Googlers), you may also need to add --index https://pypi.org/simple)

Issues & Discussions

We are using GitHub discussions as the place for issue discussion and feature requests. As discussions mature into action items, we will add those items as issues. This helps us ensure that issues in the issue tracker are well-understood, deduplicated, and actionable. For these reasons, please do <u>NOT</u> open issues directly.

Internal - For Colab Developers

Prerequisites

uv is required (pip install uv)
Configure git hooks to run repo presubmits

git config core.hooksPath .githooks

Gemini CLI setup

...
  "mcpServers": {
    "colab-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["run", "colab-mcp"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/github/colab-mcp",
      "timeout": 30000
    }
  }
...

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