# New extension: hot-patch externally edited notebooks (ClaudeCode / AI agent friendly)

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/new-extension-hot-patch-externally-edited-notebooks-claudecode-ai-agent-friendly/38702>\
**Category:** extensions\
**Tags:** community\
**Created:** [June 10, 2026, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/new-extension-hot-patch-externally-edited-notebooks-claudecode-ai-agent-friendly/38702 "2026-06-10T10:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![kolibril13](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/kolibril13/32/8343_2.png) [@kolibril13](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/kolibril13)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/new-extension-hot-patch-externally-edited-notebooks-claudecode-ai-agent-friendly/38702/1 "2026-06-10T10:18:16Z")

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Hi there, I’ve just released a new JupyterLab extension.  
It updates code changes on disk in real time into the running  
notebook, without reloading or restarting the kernel.

That makes it easy to connect Claude Code or any other coding  
agent.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/3X/d/7/d7bfcf56ef4efbec3a882d8375b20a917536426e.jpeg)

Hope this is useful to someone!  
Install via:  
pip install hot-notebook-patching

and here’s the repo

[https://github.com/kolibril13/hot-notebook-patching/tree/main](https://github.com/kolibril13/hot-notebook-patching/tree/main)