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Evidence record · captured 2026-10-10

OpenAI Jupyter Notebook

A template-first workflow for reproducible experiment and tutorial notebooks, with safe scaffolding, focused cells, validation, and explicit output conventions.

Official publisherUnverifiedSource reviewedBehavior not tested
Source review

Editorial assessment

This is a source-only assessment. It does not claim runtime or security testing.

What it does

The skill classifies a notebook as an experiment or tutorial, scaffolds valid JSON from a bundled template, fills it with small runnable steps, and validates the result top to bottom when execution is available.

Best for

  • Exploratory experiments that others must rerun
  • Teaching-oriented notebook walkthroughs
  • Refactoring a rough notebook into a readable sequence

Strengths in the source

  • Avoids hand-authoring fragile notebook JSON by using a standard-library helper.
  • Makes audience, objective, and completion criteria explicit before adding cells.
  • Separates intermediate and final artifact paths and requires disclosure when execution is unavailable.

Limitations

  • The most detailed patterns live in bundled references not summarized in the top-level skill.
  • Its default paths and environment variables are tailored to a Codex skill installation.
  • Reproducibility still depends on documenting data and package versions inside the notebook.
  • The pinned publisher repository is deprecated in favor of OpenAI's plugins repository, so confirm the current distribution path before adopting it.

When not to use it

  • A plain Python script or package is the actual deliverable
  • A notebook that cannot include the data or environment needed to rerun it

Reviewed by Retenta editorial on 2026-10-10; scope: source only.

Files included in this review
  • skills/.curated/jupyter-notebook/SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • skills/.curated/jupyter-notebook/LICENSE.txt

Evidence and boundaries

Execution · not tested

Retenta reviewed the pinned source but did not install or execute this skill.

Security · not tested

No sandbox run, dependency audit, or independent security assessment is claimed.

Revision
49f948faa9258a0c61caceaf225e179651397431
License evidence
Apache-2.0The pinned skill directory includes an Apache License, Version 2.0 LICENSE.txt.
Last source change
2026-01-31
Independent verification
The source is controlled by OpenAI; Retenta has not independently verified its runtime behavior or security.
Upstream repository
Open publisher repository

Compatibility

Codex

documented

OpenAI's repository documents curated skills for Codex and installation through the built-in skill installer.

Requirements and access

  • Python 3.12 through uv for the documented scaffold path
  • The bundled notebook templates and new_notebook.py helper
  • JupyterLab and ipykernel only when local execution is needed

Referenced tools

uvJupyterBundled notebook scaffolder

Install from the source

The pinned README documents name-based installation for curated skills and says to restart Codex. It also marks this repository deprecated in favor of OpenAI's plugins repository, so confirm the current path before adopting it.

View the SKILL.md at its source Verify the publisher's install documentation

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