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What this changes

  • Updates scheduling instructions to use the current Run and Save schedule labels and documents enabling the schedule before configuring it.
  • Replaces the scheduling screenshots with current high-resolution WebP captures.
  • Updates the PDF export instruction to use the current Export as ... label.
  • Updates the project export route to use Export as ... and Project as .zip.
  • Points Streamlit file uploads to the Files panel in the right sidebar and removes stale screenshots that show the former layout or obsolete controls.
  • Updates Streamlit app status labels to Awake, Waking up, and Going to sleep.
  • Replaces outdated Streamlit limitation text with the observed AI panel, file upload support, and Record screen menu entry.

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The documentation audit executed the linked pages against the real product and found reproducible differences.

Finding 1: cosmetic

Click the calendar icon Schedule notebook, which is at the top of the notebook, right next to the Run notebook button

  • Documented: The scheduling control is next to a Run notebook button.
  • Actual: The current toolbar uses Run.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The scheduling control and current Run label were observed in the live notebook toolbar.
  • Correction: Changed the instruction to refer to the current Run label.

Finding 2: misleading

Configure the frequency at which you would like the notebook to run and then click Save.

  • Documented: Frequency and Save are ready after opening the scheduling dialog.
  • Actual: The Schedule notebook switch must be enabled before the frequency controls and Save schedule become available.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The dialog was opened with scheduling disabled, then enabled and saved successfully.
  • Correction: Added the enable step and changed the action to Save schedule.

Finding 3: cosmetic

Additionally, you can also configure notifications for successful and failed runs, either by email or into Slack.

  • Documented: The notification controls are illustrated by the page screenshot.
  • Actual: The current scheduling dialog includes the notification controls plus repeated-failure controls and current recipient fields.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The current dialog was opened and its notification controls were inspected.
  • Correction: Replaced the old screenshot with a current WebP capture.

Finding 4: cosmetic

Every run automatically creates a run snapshot — an immutable record of the notebook's state after execution.

  • Documented: The page screenshot illustrates the version-history entry created by a scheduled run.
  • Actual: The current version-history panel shows a scheduled-run entry with the notebook context and duration.
  • Reproduced: Yes. A scheduled run completed and its current version-history entry was observed.
  • Correction: Replaced the old screenshot with a current WebP capture.

Finding 5: major

Scheduled notebooks can use integrations that rely on federated (OAuth) authentication, such as Snowflake and BigQuery OAuth. Scheduled runs authenticate using the OAuth tokens of the user who set up the schedule.

  • Documented: Snowflake and BigQuery OAuth integrations can be used by scheduled notebooks.
  • Actual: Production BigQuery OAuth scheduled execution succeeded. Snowflake OAuth scheduled execution was not independently exercised because no account with the required provider access was available.
  • Reproduced: BigQuery was reproduced successfully. Snowflake remains unverified under the user-authorized exception.
  • Correction: No source correction was made to the Snowflake portion while the required account access was unavailable.

Finding 6: cosmetic

Hover over Export as.

  • Documented: The project actions menu uses the label Export as.
  • Actual: The current menu uses Export as ....
  • Reproduced: Yes. The current menu label was observed while exporting a PDF.
  • Correction: Changed the instruction to Export as ....

Finding 7: major

To export a project, click the ellipses (...) to the right of the Share & publish button and then click on Download.

  • Documented: The export route uses a Share & publish area followed by Download.
  • Actual: The current project toolbar exposes an ellipsis menu, then Export as ..., then Project as .zip.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The current project menu and export submenu were observed.
  • Correction: Updated the route and current menu labels.

Finding 8: cosmetic

Simply drag and drop your .py file into your project's Files section.

  • Documented: The project exposes a Files section for adding a Python file.
  • Actual: Files are shown in the Files panel in the right sidebar.
  • Reproduced: Yes. A safe Python file was added through the current Files panel and opened successfully.
  • Correction: Updated the instruction to name the current Files panel and removed stale illustrations of the former layout.

Finding 9: major

The indicator in the upper left corner of the app preview shows three possible states:

  • Documented: The app preview uses Live, Sleeping, and Deploying app states.
  • Actual: The observed states were Awake, Waking up, and Going to sleep.
  • Reproduced: Yes. All three current status labels were observed during app startup and idle transitions.
  • Correction: Updated the status list to the current labels and descriptions.

Finding 10: major

If you prefer to control when updates go live, you can disable automatic updates in the Streamlit settings (hamburger icon, Settings) by turning off the Run on save option.

  • Documented: The shared app exposes a Settings control with a Run on save option.
  • Actual: The current shared app menu has no Settings or Run on save control, while editor changes were reflected immediately.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The menu and immediate update behavior were observed.
  • Correction: Removed the obsolete instruction and its contradictory screenshot.

Finding 11: major

The Record a screencast feature is not available

  • Documented: The app does not provide a recording feature.
  • Actual: The app menu includes Record screen.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The current menu entry was observed.
  • Correction: Updated the limitation to identify the current Record screen option.

Finding 12: major

AI support for editing Streamlit files is coming soon!

  • Documented: AI editing support is not yet available for Streamlit files.
  • Actual: The Streamlit file editor includes an AI control and prompt panel.
  • Reproduced: Yes. The control and panel were observed without submitting a prompt.
  • Correction: Replaced the future-looking limitation with the observed editor behavior.

Finding 13: major

The first time a viewer opens an app that uses an OAuth integration they have not authenticated yet, the helper renders an Authenticate button that opens the same OAuth flow used by notebooks and published apps.

  • Documented: An unauthenticated viewer receives an authentication prompt and can then run the OAuth-backed query with their identity.
  • Actual: The BigQuery helper returned a permission-denied 403 before an authentication prompt was observed. The Snowflake Azure AD flow opened Microsoft sign-in, but the available account was rejected because it is not an external user in the deepnote.com tenant.
  • Reproduced: The failure was observed. Full viewer authentication remains unverified under the user-authorized exception.
  • Correction: No source correction was made until an OAuth-enabled viewer account is available.

How this was verified

Every documented step was performed through the real Chrome UI in the approved Deepnote workspace. Only steps that depended on unresolved OAuth account access remain unverified, and those details are reported below.

Opened automatically by the doc-verify skill from the approved GitHub account. Not reviewed by a human.

Unverified by human

This draft uses the user-authorized incomplete-verification exception. The following exact details remain unverified:

  • Scheduling: Scheduled execution with the Snowflake OAuth example was not independently exercised because no account with the required provider access is available. No credentials were entered or handled.
  • Streamlit apps: Per-viewer OAuth authentication was not fully verified: the BigQuery helper returned a permission-denied 403, and the Snowflake Azure AD flow rejected the available Microsoft account because it is not an external user in the deepnote.com tenant. No credentials were entered or handled.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated PDF and project export instructions to reflect current menu labels and navigation.
    • Clarified scheduling steps, including calendar access, save actions, and updated visuals.
    • Revised Streamlit setup guidance with current file-panel, deployment, app-state, and supported-feature information.
    • Removed obsolete Streamlit images and outdated instructions.

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Updated documentation for PDF and project exports, notebook scheduling, and Streamlit apps. Export guides now use current menu labels and paths. Scheduling instructions include updated UI labels and images. Streamlit instructions reference the Files panel, Open app action, current app states, and supported AI file editing, file uploads, and screen recording.

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In `@docs/scheduling.md`:
- Around line 22-24: Align the scheduling entry-point wording in
docs/scheduling.md with docs/slack.md, using the same control label and adjacent
action name in the instructions around “Schedule notebook” and “Run”.

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- Around line 146-148: In the Streamlit documentation, move the three listed
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Comment thread docs/scheduling.md
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1. Click the calendar icon **Schedule notebook**, which is at the top of the notebook, next to the **Run** button
2. Enable **Schedule notebook**, configure the frequency at which you want the notebook to run, and then click **Save schedule**.
3. Additionally, you can also configure notifications for successful and failed runs, either by email or into Slack.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use one scheduling control name across the documentation.

docs/scheduling.md names the control Schedule notebook beside Run. docs/slack.md names the same workflow Scheduling beside Run notebook. Keep the entry-point label and adjacent action consistent so users can find the control in both guides.

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In `@docs/scheduling.md` around lines 22 - 24, Align the scheduling entry-point
wording in docs/scheduling.md with docs/slack.md, using the same control label
and adjacent action name in the instructions around “Schedule notebook” and
“Run”.

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This change is correct, edit the slack.md file so it is consistent.

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

slack_file="$(fd -t f '^slack\.md$' . | head -n 1)"
if [ -z "$slack_file" ]; then
  echo "docs/slack.md was not found." >&2
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fi

rg -n -C 6 -i 'schedule|scheduling|run notebook|schedule notebook' "$slack_file"

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@petrfiedler, update docs/slack.md to use Schedule notebook and Run in the scheduling instruction. This matches docs/scheduling.md.

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- The Streamlit file editor includes an AI assistance panel.
- The file upload widget is supported in Streamlit apps.
- The app menu includes a **Record screen** option.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move supported features out of Limitations.

These bullets describe available features, not limitations. Rename the section to ## Supported features or move the bullets to an appropriate section.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@docs/streamlit.md` around lines 146 - 148, In the Streamlit documentation,
move the three listed capability bullets out of the Limitations section and
place them under an appropriately named Supported features section, such as “##
Supported features.”

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…#510)

* fix(cli): let sync and publish share one baseline for project files

`deepnote publish` deploys into `_deepnote_static/**`, which is a subtree of
the project file store `deepnote sync --all-files` mirrors. Neither command
knew about the other, so they drifted: every publish made the whole static
subtree look changed to sync (re-downloading it on the next run), a stale
local mirror could be pushed back over a live site with no staleness check,
and `publish --prune` left local ghosts that a later edit would resurrect.

Resolved by coordination rather than by dividing the namespace, so both
commands keep working on the same paths:

- Sync gains per-file lost-update protection on push. `uploadProjectFiles`
  never fetched the inventory at all; it now checks every candidate against
  it and routes a file that moved since the manifest baseline through the
  existing `--on-conflict` override-or-skip choice. A pending replacement is
  exempt — that missing cloud copy is sync's own unfinished delete. This also
  fixes the same silent overwrite for ordinary working files edited in the
  Deepnote app.
- Publish updates the sync mirror when the published directory sits inside a
  synced workspace: it writes each file into the project's `.files/` mirror
  and records size, hash, and server `updatedAt`, exactly as a sync download
  would. `--prune` drops pruned paths from both. `--sync-root`/`--no-sync-root`
  control discovery.
- Publish stops before mutating anything if a path it would write has moved on
  in Deepnote since that workspace last synced, since the mirror holds no copy
  of that content; `--force` overrides. Its check is deliberately narrower
  than sync's: publish is a deploy where the local build is authoritative, so
  a path with no baseline is not flagged.
- `PROJECT_STATIC_ROOT` moves to `@deepnote/cloud` so every writer agrees on
  where the boundary is.

The mirror is only updated when the tracked project directory already exists —
creating it would make the next sync read the project as "all notebooks deleted
locally" and push that. Mirror failures are warnings, not errors: the deploy
succeeded, and a stale manifest is safe because the next sync asks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: add public pages for the deepnote publish and sync CLI commands

Neither command had public documentation, and "deepnote sync" was easy to
confuse with the in-product "Deepnote file sync" feature since the names
collide and nothing distinguished them.

- docs/deepnote-cli-publish.md — deploying a build directory to a project:
  authentication and token safety, finding a project ID, the _deepnote_static
  target and --path, --api-access and why it is off by default, --prune,
  failure ordering, exit codes, and the canonical URL the server returns.
- docs/deepnote-cli-sync.md — mirroring a workspace locally: the directory
  layout and manifest, both sync directions, conflict handling, --all-files,
  the deletion rules, safety rails, and automation.
- docs/deepnote-file-sync.md — a callout up top distinguishing the in-product
  Git-linked feature from the CLI command, plus cross-links.

Both new pages document ownership of the static site directory: publish is
the write path, and sync mirrors it without ever silently overwriting it,
surfacing a republished site as a conflict instead. A publish inside a synced
workspace keeps that workspace's mirror in step.

Deliberately untouched: docs/deepnote-mcp.md (waiting on the released
manifest), and docs/creating-apps.md, docs/streamlit.md, docs/scheduling.md,
docs/export-pdf.md and docs/export-project.md (PR #491 and the app-reference
work). No tool counts or unreleased capabilities are described.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: correct the access model for published static sites

The publish page described a published site as a "public static website" and
its contents as "publicly readable". That was wrong. Static file sharing has
no anonymous tier and no link-only tier: an unauthenticated visitor is
redirected to sign-in, and the viewer must additionally be an active user with
view access to the project. A workspace-level setting and plan availability
can each disable it independently, and access is re-checked on every request.

Adds a "Who can view a published site" section stating those requirements, and
points readers at data apps — which do offer "Anyone with a link" and "Public"
access levels — when the deliverable has to reach people without Deepnote
accounts. That contrast is the thing most likely to be assumed wrongly, since
"publish" implies public hosting elsewhere.

Also notes that API access can only narrow the audience rather than widen it,
and that the printed URL must be used verbatim because each project's site is
served from its own origin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(publish): narrow the DEEPNOTE_TOKEN exposure claim

Say the environment variable keeps the token out of the command line rather than claiming it avoids shell-history and process-list exposure entirely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: tomas <tomas@kislan.sk>
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Retake all screenshots on this page.

Comment thread docs/export-project.md
To export a project, click the ellipses (`...`) to the right of the Share & publish button and then click on Download. The downloaded file is in zip format and contains your notebooks (in `.ipynb` format) as well as your other assets.
To export a project, click the ellipses (`...`) in the project toolbar, hover over **Export as ...**, and click **Project as .zip**. The downloaded file is in zip format and contains your notebooks (in `.ipynb` format) as well as your other assets.

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Replace video with just a screenshot with an arrow pointing at "Project as .zip".

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Once deployed, use the **Open app button** to see your app in its full shared state.

![streamlit map.png](../assets/docs/rvep2fghRAS3hc1kxjFn.webp)

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Don't remove but retake.

Comment thread docs/streamlit.md
- `Live`: App is deployed and running - visitors can interact immediately
- `Sleeping`: App is deployed but project hardware is inactive - visitors will wait for initialization
- `Deploying app`: App is updating and temporarily unavailable
- `Awake`: The app is deployed and running, so visitors can interact with it.

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There is also a 'Sleeping' state.

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When you make changes to your app's code, your updates will be reflected immediately in the live app.

Note: this means anyone viewing your app will see these changes as they happen. If you prefer to control when updates go live, you can disable automatic updates in the Streamlit settings (hamburger icon, Settings) by turning off the **Run on save** option.

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Keep just "This means anyone viewing your app will see these changes as they happen." immediately after the previous sentence ("...live app.").

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Need to update your data regularly? Take advantage of [notebook scheduling](https://deepnote.com/docs/scheduling) to automate your data preparation.

![streamlit_using_csv.png](../assets/docs/jPOfyMQzQqutYX3HNaWn.webp)

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Reshoot instead of removal.

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@@ -151,7 +143,6 @@ Your Streamlit app shares its environment with your project. If you need to add

## Limitations

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Remove whole "Limitations" section."

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