Notebooks

April 8, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Cog plays nicely with Jupyter notebooks.

Install the jupyterlab Python package

First, add jupyterlab to your requirements.txt file and reference it in cog.yaml:

requirements.txt:

jupyterlab

cog.yaml:

build:
  python_requirements: requirements.txt

Run a notebook

Cog can run notebooks in the environment you've defined in cog.yaml with the following command:

cog exec -p 8888 jupyter lab --allow-root --ip=0.0.0.0

Use notebook code in your predictor

You can also import a notebook into your Cog Predictor file.

First, export your notebook to a Python file:

jupyter nbconvert --to script my_notebook.ipynb # creates my_notebook.py

Then import the exported Python script into your predict.py file. Any functions or variables defined in your notebook will be available to your predictor:

from cog import BasePredictor, Input

import my_notebook

class Predictor(BasePredictor):
    def predict(self, prompt: str = Input(description="string prompt")) -> str:
      output = my_notebook.do_stuff(prompt)
      return output