Skill: Colab Session Operator

Operate Google Colab environments via the colab CLI: provision GPU/TPU sessions, run Python/shell on the VM, sync files, and capture work as notebooks.

Installation

If the user does not already have the colab tool installed, it can be acquired by running uv tool install google-colab-cli or pip install google-colab-cli.

Hermes terminal PYTHONPATH fix (macOS)

On this machine the colab binary is installed via uv tool but crashes with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pydantic_core._pydantic_core' because the Hermes terminal leaks its Python 3.11 PYTHONPATH into colab's isolated uv environment. Always prefix colab commands with PYTHONPATH="" when running from the Hermes terminal: