diff --git a/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml
index bc8226121d..3ac6fe185d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/notebooks-ci.yml
@@ -103,11 +103,21 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Drift check (re-run update_all_notebooks.py + git diff)
         working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}
+        # Reported as non-blocking until the upstream `unslothai/notebooks`
+        # tree is regenerated. The first run on @main surfaces ~463 files
+        # of drift (7359 / 9634 line delta), which is a real backlog the
+        # notebooks-side maintainers need to clear in their own repo --
+        # this PR's role is to surface the count, not auto-fix it.
+        continue-on-error: true
         run: |
           python unsloth/scripts/notebook_validator.py drift \
               --notebooks-dir notebooks
 
       - name: Convert sanity (every nb / kaggle / original_template -> .py)
+        # Same rationale as Drift: a handful of upstream notebooks fail
+        # the converter (custom magics, malformed JSON, etc). Surface
+        # the count without blocking; the team triages in unslothai/notebooks.
+        continue-on-error: true
         run: |
           python unsloth/scripts/notebook_validator.py convert \
               --notebooks-dir notebooks \
@@ -180,7 +190,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@a26af69be951a213d495a4c3e4e4022e16d87065  # v5.6.0
         with: { python-version: '3.12', cache: 'pip' }
 
-      - name: Install CPU torch + pinned unsloth + trl
+      - name: Install CPU torch + pinned unsloth + trl + converter deps
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu 'torch>=2.8,<2.11'
@@ -190,9 +200,13 @@ jobs:
           pip install 'transformers>=4.56,<5.6' 'trl>=0.22,<0.26' 'accelerate>=1.0' \
                       'datasets>=3.4,<5' 'peft>=0.15,<0.20' \
                       'bitsandbytes>=0.43' 'sentencepiece' 'protobuf'
+          # Converter deps (nbformat for notebook_to_python.py).
+          pip install 'nbformat>=5.10' 'nbconvert>=7.16'
           pip install --no-deps unsloth_zoo unsloth
 
       - name: Convert notebooks for AST scan
+        # Same upstream-conversion-error tolerance as the static job.
+        continue-on-error: true
         run: |
           python unsloth/scripts/notebook_validator.py convert \
               --notebooks-dir notebooks --out _converted