gemini-notebook-mcp-cli provides programmatic access to Gemini Notebook through a command-line interface and a Model Context Protocol server. It is for scripts, desktop applications, and AI agents that need to work with Gemini Notebook notebooks. The catalogue contains instructions and a skill for using it.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cliWrote this? Show the measurements
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.03166 | $0.03166 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01266 | $0.01266 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00633 | $0.00633 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00317 | $0.00317 |
Grade A, and why
gemini-notebook-mcp-cli AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- notebooklm-mcp-cli AGENTS.md — 88% identical, 47 lines differ
- notebooklm-mcp-fork AGENTS.md — 88% identical, 47 lines differ
- gemini-notebook-mcp-cli CLAUDE.md — 88% identical, 77 lines differ
- notebooklm-mcp-fork CLAUDE.md — 84% identical, 81 lines differ
- notebooklm-mcp-cli CLAUDE.md — 84% identical, 81 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file provides guidance to Codex (Codex.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
Project Overview
Gemini Notebook (formerly Google NotebookLM) MCP Server & CLI - Provides programmatic access to Gemini Notebook (notebook.google.com) via both a Model Context Protocol server and a comprehensive command-line interface.
Tested with personal/free tier accounts. May work with Google Workspace accounts but has not been tested.
Development Commands
# Install dependencies
uv tool install .
# Reinstall after code changes (ALWAYS clean cache first)
uv cache clean && uv tool install --force .
# Run the MCP server (stdio)
notebooklm-mcp
# Run with Debug logging
notebooklm-mcp --debug
# Run as HTTP server
notebooklm-mcp --transport http --port 8000
# Run tests
uv run pytest
# Run a single test
uv run pytest tests/test_file.py::test_function -v
Python requirement: >=3.11
Authentication (SIMPLIFIED!)
You only need to provide COOKIES! The CSRF token and session ID are now automatically extracted when needed.
Method 1: Chrome DevTools MCP (Recommended)
Option A - Fast (Recommended): Extract CSRF token and session ID directly from network request - no page fetch needed!
# 1. Navigate to NotebookLM page
navigate_page(url="https://notebook.google.com/")
# 2. Get a batchexecute request (any NotebookLM API call)
get_network_request(reqid=<any_batchexecute_request>)
# 3. Save with all three fields from the network request:
save_auth_tokens(
cookies=<cookie_header>,
request_body=<request_body>, # Contains CSRF token
request_url=<request_url> # Contains session ID
)
Option B - Minimal (slower first call): Save only cookies, tokens extracted from page on first API call
save_auth_tokens(cookies=<cookie_header>)
Method 2: Environment Variables
| Variable | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
NOTEBOOKLM_COOKIES |
Yes | Full cookie header from Chrome DevTools |
NOTEBOOKLM_CSRF_TOKEN |
No | (DEPRECATED - auto-extracted) |
NOTEBOOKLM_SESSION_ID |
No | (DEPRECATED - auto-extracted) |
NOTEBOOKLM_BL |
No | Override for build label / bl URL param (auto-extracted from page) |
NOTEBOOKLM_HL |
No | Interface language and default artifact language (default: en) |
NOTEBOOKLM_AUTH_RECOVERY_COOLDOWN_SECONDS |
No | Automatic browser recovery cooldown per profile/process (default: 900; 0 disables) |
NOTEBOOKLM_AUTH_MAX_HEADLESS_FAILURES |
No | Automatic browser recovery failure ceiling per profile/process (default: 3; 0 disables) |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 10d ago Changed · +2 lines · +82 tokens per session e6618e98262e
- 23d ago Changed · +16 lines · +354 tokens per session 3e967bb24678
- 26d ago Changed · +4 lines · +83 tokens per session afc4c03a9ca6
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +62 tokens per session 1fe79e17da27
- 1mo ago First seen · 270 lines · 2,585 tokens per session scan A b731df788003
gemini-notebook-mcp-cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jacob-bd/gemini-notebook-mcp-cli (6,388 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 3,166 tokens to every session, about $0.0127 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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