# Interactive Console

> Use this tool when you need to execute iterative code in R or Python, with features like automatic prompt cleanup and plot rendering, and require a secure environment with OS-level sandboxing and memory guardrails. It provides a long-lived interactive REPL process, maintaining session state across calls, and supports large outputs with a built-in pager. Ideal for debugging and testing code in a controlled and isolated environment on macOS and Linux systems.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/t-kalinowski-interactive-console  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/t-kalinowski-interactive-console

## Description

Provides a long-lived interactive REPL process through a single write_stdin tool, supporting both R and Python backends. Maintains session state across calls, enabling iterative code execution and debugging. Features include automatic prompt cleanup, a built-in pager for large outputs, in-band documentation access, plot rendering as image content, and OS-level sandboxing with network disabled by default and memory guardrails. Supports macOS and Linux.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** media
- **Updated:** 2026-04-25

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/t-kalinowski-interactive-console)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/posit-dev/mcp-repl>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "t-kalinowski-interactive-console"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/t-kalinowski-interactive-console` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/t-kalinowski-interactive-console/pull`

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