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Dev tools · February 14, 2026

Logbooks, notebook computing for coding agents

Logbooks adapts some ideas from structured notebook computing environments like nbdev and Papermill for Claude Code and other coding agents. This is a pattern I found myself repeating across a few recent projects, and thought I'd try to formalize it and reflect on it a bit. Research and scientific computing rely on notebooks because they often consist of complex sequences of one-off variations, and demand both flexibility and reproducibility. But my experience using Cursor and Claude Code with Jupyter has been quite poor. What I've found here is that creating a "notebook", naively, as a…

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notebook computing for coding agents. Contribute to rwhaling/logbooks development by creating an account on GitHub.

This repo is an attempt to document a pattern, which I'm calling logbooks , that I've found myself using in the last few weeks on a variety of projects. By interleaving templatized markdown files with executable code, we can create a mechanism for Claude Code or other coding agents to play a role similar to Jupyter Notebooks or other notebook computing environments. This repo contains both a Claude skil as well as some examples of actual tasks and executions. I'll show some examples before reflecting some on how/how well this works, why I think it's useful, and where I think it goes next. --- parameters : name : ... --- # Example Logbook Template This logbook is intended to perform a simple…from github.com

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Logbooks adapts some ideas from structured notebook computing environments like nbdev and Papermill for Claude Code and other coding agents. This is a pattern I found myself repeating across a few recent projects, and thought I'd try to formalize it and reflect on it a bit. Research and scientific computing rely on…

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