TabPFN Cookbook

Source notebooks for TabPFN cookbooks. Published on docs.priorlabs.ai (Cookbook tab).

Contribute

Setup

1. Fork PriorLabs/tabpfn-cookbook and branch from main.
2. Install uv and sync the environment once:

uv sync

Prefix the commands below with uv run (e.g. uv run python scripts/validate.py --all) to run them in that environment.

Pick a path

Path	When	Source of truth
Notebook (recommended)	Code walkthroughs	notebooks/<slug>.ipynb → generates markdowns/<slug>.mdx
Markdown only	Prose / no runnable notebook	markdowns/<slug>.mdx only

Use a short slug (filename without extension), e.g. my-recipe.

Notebook recipe

1. Create notebooks/<slug>.ipynb with frontmatter in the first markdown cell (title + description required).
2. Write and run the notebook so useful outputs (prints, tables, plots) are saved in the .ipynb.
3. Convert (builds MDX, injects authors/Colab, extracts plots into visuals/<slug>/ only if needed):

uv run python scripts/convert_to_markdown.py --slug <slug>

4. Validate and commit:

uv run python scripts/validate.py --all
git add notebooks/<slug>.ipynb markdowns/<slug>.mdx visuals/<slug>/
git commit -m "Add <slug> cookbook"

Plots and images: embedded chart outputs are extracted automatically on convert. For static images, either paste them into a markdown cell (Jupyter stores them as attachments, ![alt](attachment:name.png)) or add a file under visuals/<slug>/ and reference it as ![alt](../visuals/<slug>/name.png). On convert, attachments are extracted to visuals/<slug>/name.png and both forms are rewritten in the notebook to the raw GitHub URL of that file:

![My chart](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PriorLabs/tabpfn-cookbook/main/visuals/<slug>/my-chart.png)

This is required because Colab ignores cell attachments and cannot resolve relative paths, so those forms show as broken images there. Validation fails if a notebook still contains them. The URL points at main, so images in a new cookbook render in Colab once the PR is merged; reviewers can view the files in the PR diff under visuals/.

Markdown-only recipe

1. Create markdowns/<slug>.mdx with frontmatter.
2. If you set authors and/or colab_url:

uv run python scripts/process_markdown.py --slug <slug>

3. Validate and commit markdowns/<slug>.mdx (do not run convert_to_markdown.py).

Open a PR

Push your branch and open a PR against main. CI runs the same checks as validate.py.

Same-repo PRs get a Mintlify docs preview comment when opened; fork PRs still get validation.

Commands you’ll use

Command	When
uv run python scripts/convert_to_markdown.py --slug <slug>	After editing a notebook (or --all)
uv run python scripts/process_markdown.py --slug <slug>	After editing authors / colab_url on a markdown-only recipe
uv run python scripts/validate.py --all	Before opening or updating a PR

Optional frontmatter extras

Authors

authors:
  - name: Prior Labs
    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prior-labs
    twitter: https://twitter.com/prior_labs

Social fields: github, linkedin, x (twitter is also accepted). Notebooks get the author block from convert; markdown-only needs process_markdown.py.

Colab — set automatically for notebooks. For markdown-only, set colab_url then run process_markdown.py.

YouTube — in a notebook markdown cell:

[youtube: Optional title](https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID)

or a bare YouTube URL on its own line. Markdown-only recipes: paste an <iframe> yourself.

Questions? Open an issue or email hello@priorlabs.ai.

Layout

notebooks/   # Author notebooks (.ipynb, frontmatter in cell 0)
markdowns/   # Generated or hand-written MDX
visuals/     # Plot images (created by convert when needed)
scripts/     # convert_to_markdown, process_markdown, validate, …

Frontmatter

---
title: "Recipe title"
description: "Short summary for the docs site."
icon: "bolt"
cookbookTags:
  - api
feature_in_doc: classification
featured: true
authors:
  - name: Prior Labs
    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prior-labs
    twitter: https://twitter.com/prior_labs
---

Required: title, description
Optional: icon, cookbookTags, feature_in_doc, featured, authors
Auto-set for notebooks: colab_url

featured: true pins the recipe to the top row of the Cookbook index on docs.priorlabs.ai with a highlighted tile and a "Featured" badge. Featured recipes share that top row, so at most 3 may be featured at once; validate.py (and CI) fails if more are set. Omit it (or set false) for normal tiles.

CI (maintainers)

Workflow: .github/workflows/docs-sync.yml

Job	When	What
validate	Every PR update + push to main	Notebooks / markdown / author blocks
publish-docs-preview	Same-repo PRs only	Mintlify preview on cookbook/pr-<N> (comment on open)
publish-docs	Push to main that changes markdowns/	Opens docs PR cookbook/update-<N> → DOCS_PREVIEW_BRANCH
cleanup-docs-preview	Same-repo PR closed	Deletes cookbook/pr-*

Fork PRs: validate only (no preview).

Secrets / variables on PriorLabs/tabpfn-cookbook:

Name	Type	Purpose
DOCS_REPO_TOKEN	Secret	Contents + Pull requests write on PriorLabs/docs
MINTLIFY_API_KEY	Secret	Mintlify admin API key
MINTLIFY_PROJECT_ID	Secret	Mintlify project ID
DOCS_PREVIEW_BRANCH	Variable	Preview base + sync PR target (tuana/cookbooks-poc now; main at go-live)