# Supabase MCP server 0.16.0 turns on notebook tools for agents

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/news/supabase-mcp-0-16-0-notebook-tools · Evidence: Reported · First seen: 2026-11-05 14:28 UTC · Source published: 2026-11-05 13:50 UTC · Brief published: 2026-11-05 14:30 UTC · Updated: 2026-11-05 14:30 UTC · Author: Agentic Weekly

> Supabase released mcp-server-supabase 0.16.0 on November 5, 2026. It enables the create_notebook and run_notebook tools by default, adds delete_notebook with an elicitation confirmation, lets agents run selected notebook cells, and bounds run_notebook cost (notebooks with more than 50 query cells are refused).

## What changed

- Notebook tools go live: the notebooks feature group now registers create_notebook and run_notebook by default; before 0.16.0 they sat behind an internal unreleasedNotebookTools option and only list_notebooks and get_notebook were exposed.
- New delete_notebook tool asks the user to confirm through MCP form elicitation before deleting, can be skipped with skip_elicitations=delete_notebook, and is refused on clients without form elicitation while confirmation is on.
- Bounded run_notebook cost: a notebook with more than 50 query cells is refused before anything runs, and once the run's roughly 1 MB result budget is spent, later query cells come back as skipped instead of executing.
- Agents can now run selected notebook cells instead of a whole notebook, and client-caused notebook refusals are returned as caller errors.
- SQL and schema fixes: planner-only EXPLAIN no longer triggers the destructive-SQL confirmation, list_tables gains partition_of and reports partition foreign keys once, and check expressions for NOT VALID and NO INHERIT constraints are returned in full.

## In the source's words

> "add delete_notebook tool with elicitation confirmation"
> (Supabase mcp-server-supabase v0.16.0 GitHub release notes, https://github.com/supabase/mcp/releases/tag/mcp-server-supabase-v0.16.0)

> "skip destructive confirmation for planner-only EXPLAIN"
> (Supabase mcp-server-supabase v0.16.0 GitHub release notes, https://github.com/supabase/mcp/releases/tag/mcp-server-supabase-v0.16.0)

## What we have not verified

- We did not install or run mcp-server-supabase 0.16.0 or try the notebook tools ourselves.
- The 50-cell and roughly 1 MB limits come from the pull request description, which calls 50 a starting value; they may change in later releases.
- The pull request says hosted Supabase honours the per-cell log budget only once its platform pin includes this change; we did not confirm when that happens.

## Timeline

- Source published: 2026-11-05 13:50 UTC
- First seen by our watcher: 2026-11-05 14:28 UTC (via GitHub releases: supabase-community/supabase-mcp)
- Brief published: 2026-11-05 14:30 UTC

## Sources

- [GitHub release: supabase/mcp mcp-server-supabase-v0.16.0](https://github.com/supabase/mcp/releases/tag/mcp-server-supabase-v0.16.0) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-05)
- [Pull request #509: enable create_notebook and run_notebook tools](https://github.com/supabase/mcp/pull/509) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-05)
- [Pull request #510: add delete_notebook tool with elicitation confirmation](https://github.com/supabase/mcp/pull/510) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-05)
- [Pull request #511: bound run_notebook cost](https://github.com/supabase/mcp/pull/511) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-05)

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Agentic Weekly, "Supabase MCP server 0.16.0 turns on notebook tools for agents", published 2026-11-05 14:30 UTC, https://theagenticweekly.com/news/supabase-mcp-0-16-0-notebook-tools