Workbench Notebooks VS Code Extension

April 16, 2026 · View on GitHub

Workbench Notebooks instances are Jupyter notebook-based development environments for the entire data science workflow. You can interact with other Google Cloud services from within a Workbench instance's Jupyter notebook. Built atop the Jupyter extension, this extension exposes Workbench Jupyter servers directly in VS Code!

Quick Start

  1. Install VS Code.
  2. Install the Workbench extension from either the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX.
  3. Install the Jupyter extension if not already installed.
  4. Open or create a notebook file.
  5. Click Select Kernel > Google Cloud > Workbench.
  6. When prompted, sign in.
  7. Search and select a GCP project.
  8. Select an active Workbench instance.
  9. 😎 Enjoy!

Connecting to an active Workbench instance and executing a code cell

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and appreciated! See the contributing guide for more info.

Data and Telemetry

The extension does not collect any client-side usage data within VS Code. See the Google Cloud Terms of Service and the Google Cloud Privacy for more information.

Security

To mitigate the risk of malicious extensions accessing your OAuth credentials, ensure the extension is installed from a trusted source (such as the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX) and is authored by the verified publisher (GoogleCloudTools).

Please see our security disclosure process. All security advisories are managed on GitHub.