Create New Notebook

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Creates a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in _quarto.yml. Use when adding a new notebook.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Create New Notebook skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/new-notebook/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Create a new Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and register it in the manuscript.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS — the notebook name and title (e.g., "notebook-02 Regression Analysis")

Steps

  1. Parse the name and title from the arguments. Follow the naming convention: notebook-NN.ipynb (sequential numbering)
  2. Check notebooks/ for existing notebooks to determine the next number
  3. Create the .ipynb file in notebooks/ with:
    • The correct kernel (ask user: Python, R, or Stata)
    • A first code cell with the setup appropriate for the chosen kernel:
      • Python: import sys; sys.path.insert(0, ".."); from config import set_seeds, DATA_DIR; set_seeds()
      • R: source("../config.R"); set_seeds()
      • Stata: clear all followed by set seed 42
    • A markdown cell with the notebook title
  4. Create the Jupytext .md pair by running: uv run jupytext --set-formats ipynb,md:myst notebooks/<name>.ipynb
  5. Register the notebook in _quarto.yml under manuscript.notebooks:
    - notebook: notebooks/<name>.ipynb
      title: "N<number>: <title>"
    
  6. Confirm the notebook renders: quarto render notebooks/<name>.ipynb

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