Making Google Colab Usable by Autonomous AI Agents

[henrik253]

Hi folks,

I wanted to share the work I’ve done over the past few weeks on my Colab MCP fork, Cool Colab MCP.
I added several features focused on making Colab notebooks more persistent and autonomous for AI agents:

• Automatic dialog approval: Handles Colab’s MCP warning and Google Drive dialogs automatically.
• Persistent notebook registry: Reopens registered notebooks after restarts.
• Multiple notebooks simultaneously: Runs each notebook in its own session and runtime.
• Local .ipynb ↔ Colab sync: Syncs notebooks between Colab and a local repository.
• Notebook snapshots: Creates, restores, and exports notebook checkpoints.
• Programmatic CPU/GPU switching: Requests runtime profiles and verifies the assigned hardware.

Repository: Cool Colab MCP

If anyone gives it a try, I’d be more than happy to hear your feedback. I’ve used it for two of my own projects—it’s not perfect, but it works!