Overview

Workbooks Studio docs.

Workbooks Studio is the hosted workspace for portable interactive workbooks. This is the reference for both Studio (the SaaS) and the open Workbooks standard (the file format and CLI).

One product, fully open source. Studio, the broker, the viewer, the runtime SDK, the CLI, and the Claude Code skill are all open source (Apache-2.0) at shinyobjectz-sh/workbooks. What Studio adds is hosting — a managed workspace, identity, access control, and a viewer — not closed code. You can self-host the entire stack if you'd rather not use workbooks.sh.

What is a workbook?

A workbook is a single .html file that bundles its own runtime, code, and (optionally) data. Open it in any browser and it runs — no server, no install, no sign-in. Workbooks are good for analytical notebooks, interactive documents, decks, and small apps you want to email rather than deploy.

Workbooks are produced by @work.books/cli. The CLI compiles a project tree to one HTML artifact and (by default) embeds a gzipped snapshot of the source inside the artifact itself, so recipients can workbook unbundle <file> to recover the project and iterate.

What is Studio?

Studio is the team workspace around workbooks. It adds:

Group libraries — workbooks organized per team, with contributors and access policy.
Identity & access — private workbooks gated through the hosted viewer and broker.
Operational controls — publishing, revocation, tagging, runtime configuration.
Agent workflows — drive everything from Claude, Cursor, or Codex over MCP.

Studio is the path you choose when "email the file" stops being enough — you want a library, you want to revoke a workbook, you want metrics, you want sign-in. The file you publish to Studio is still a workbook; Studio just hosts it.

Where to next

Start with the Quickstart for a five-minute path from npm install to a published workbook. If you're already familiar with workbooks and just want to move into the team workspace, jump to Hosting on Studio. If you want to understand the artifact format itself, read The standard.