Guides

Featured workflows

• Codex agent chat

  Use Codex agent chat beside project files, notebooks, terminals, screenshots, patches, and review notes.

• Jupyter notebooks

  Keep durable execution, output, collaboration, TimeTravel, and review close to the notebook.

• Terminal workflows

  Use .term files, shared terminal streams, side chat, Linux tools, and agent-aware command-line work.

Research and writing

Papers, notebooks, code-backed figures, and long-running research work.

• From notebook to paper

  Polish a paper with LaTeX, notebooks, figures, collaborators, Codex, and project history.

• LaTeX projects

  Choose and use CoCalc for LaTeX projects that depend on figures, code, review, and collaborators.

• Python in CoCalc

  Move from notebook exploration to scripts, packages, debugging, and figures in papers.

• Research runs

  Manage messy computation with logs, retries, partial outputs, summaries, and recovery.

Runtime and code

Software setup, Git workflows, agent review, and repeatable project environments.

• Installing software

  Install packages and make a project environment work from the terminal.

• GitHub workflow

  Use GitHub issues, pull requests, releases, and reviews from a CoCalc project.

• Reviewing agent commits

  Inspect agent commits, ask line-level questions, and keep code review accountable.

• Reusable runtime images

  Prepare reusable software environments for courses, teams, sites, and demonstrations.

Operating paths

Self-hosting, local evaluation, durable collaborative projects, and architecture.

• CoCalc Plus

  Install a self-contained one-user CoCalc for a laptop, workstation, or SSH machine.

• Self-hosting CoCalc

  Understand the small-team self-hosting path and when a larger private deployment is a better fit.

• Durable collaborative projects

  Use a durable CoCalc project where people and agents work together over time.

• How CoCalc works

  Learn how project workspaces, compute hosts, and storage fit together.

• Teaching with CoCalc

  Use live student projects, assignments, grading workflows, TimeTravel, and shared environments.