Cells
insert_cell
Insert a cell to specified position from the currently activated notebook.
Insert a cell to specified position from the currently activated notebook.
destructive: yes · idempotent: no · open-world: no
Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cell_index | integer | yes | — | Target index for insertion (0-based), use -1 to append at end |
cell_type | code · markdown · raw | yes | — | Type of cell to insert |
cell_source | string | yes | — | Source content for the cell |
notebook_name | string | null | no | null | Target this specific connected notebook instead of the currently activated one. Use when multiple clients share this server, to avoid racing the shared 'current notebook' pointer. Omit to use the currently activated notebook. |
Output
{
"properties": {
"kind": {
"description": "What this result is — 'cell.read', 'notebooks.list' and so on. Lets a client tell one answer from another without matching prose.",
"title": "Kind",
"type": "string"
},
"result": {
"default": null,
"description": "The answer itself: a message, the rows of a listing, or the outputs of an execution in order.",
"title": "Result"
}
},
"required": [
"kind"
],
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": true,
"description": "What every tool of this server answers with.\n\nDeclared so the shape is *advertised* rather than merely produced. A tool\nthat returns structure without saying what it will return leaves a client\nnothing to validate against and the generated reference nothing to show —\nthe call works and the contract is invisible, which is the worst of both.\n\nExtra fields are allowed on purpose. A tool that already answers with a\nmapping keeps its own keys (see :func:`_default_shape`), and those are the\ninteresting part of its answer; forbidding them would mean either\nflattening every tool into one shape or declaring nothing at all.",
"title": "ToolAnswer"
}Call it
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "insert_cell",
"arguments": {
"cell_index": 0,
"cell_type": "<cell_type>",
"cell_source": "<cell_source>",
"notebook_name": null
}
}
}result = await session.call_tool("insert_cell", arguments={"cell_index": 0, "cell_type": "<cell_type>", "cell_source": "<cell_source>", "notebook_name": None})Source
Registered by the @mcp.tool decorator on insert_cell in jupyter_mcp_server/server.py.
