## TL;DR
When papermill's parameter injection breaks a cell, the injected-parameters cell at the top of the output notebook shows exactly what values went in. Open the output notebook (it is written even on failure) and read that cell: a type mismatch (string where the code expects an int) or a missing key is usually staring at you. Fix the parameters YAML or add the `parameters` tag correctly, then re-run.

```text
papermill execution failed: CellExecutionError in parameterized cell
```

## Use this when
- Papermill fails with CellExecutionError and the traceback points at the parameters cell.
- The notebook runs fine interactively with hand-set values.
- You recently changed the parameters file or the tagged cell.

## Not for this skill when
- Papermill hangs instead of failing. That is an infinite loop or blocking call.
- Parameters are silently ignored. That is a tagging problem.

## Steps
1. Open the output notebook papermill wrote (it exists even on failure). Verify: you can see the injected-parameters cell.
2. Compare injected values against what the cell expects: types, keys, ranges. Verify: you spot the mismatch.
3. Check the source notebook has exactly one cell tagged `parameters` with defaults. Verify: the tag is present and spelled right.
4. Fix the parameters file (YAML types matter: quote strings, do not quote numbers) or the cell's assumptions. Verify: the file parses and types are right.
5. Re-run papermill. Verify: the run completes and the output notebook has executed outputs.

## Variant phrasings
### papermill parameters cell error
Short form. Read the injected cell in the output.

### CellExecutionError papermill parameters
The exception phrasing. Type mismatch is the usual cause.

### papermill injected parameters failed
General phrasing. Validate the YAML types.

Compatibility: papermill 2.x, nbclient 0.5+. The injected-parameters cell convention is stable.

## Why it happens
Papermill inserts a new cell with your parameters right after the tagged defaults cell, and that cell is plain python: values come from YAML, so `count: 10` is an int but `count: "10"` is a string. Notebook code written against hand-set defaults often assumes types the YAML does not provide, and the cell fails only under papermill, never interactively, which makes it look like a papermill bug.

## Edge cases / pitfalls
- YAML silently coerces unquoted values (`yes` becomes True in YAML 1.1). Quote anything that must stay a string.
- Two cells tagged `parameters` make injection ambiguous. Keep exactly one.
- The output notebook is overwritten on each run. Copy it aside before re-running if you need the failure evidence.
- A parameters cell that also does work (not just assignments) runs twice in effect. Keep it to assignments only.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_0eUsct6OE64_fUxVfMFCVA

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_fhG0aQ-5jK8W8FPcQPY1eQ/versions/skv_LksrgvM-A1C_GpwUcRaz9w>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_fhG0aQ-5jK8W8FPcQPY1eQ>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_fhG0aQ-5jK8W8FPcQPY1eQ/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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