MATLAB Agentic Toolkit

May 6, 2026 · View on GitHub

The MATLAB® Agentic Toolkit brings trusted MATLAB capabilities to AI agents, making engineering and scientific workflows agent-ready.

What It Does

AI coding agents are increasingly capable with MATLAB — but capability isn't expertise. Without guidance, agents reinvent what toolbox functions already provide, miss features they don't know about, and burn through extra steps that an experienced MATLAB user would skip. The MATLAB Agentic Toolkit gives your agent the knowledge and context to work efficiently from the start.

The toolkit connects your AI agent to MATLAB and equips it with expert knowledge — the workflows, conventions, and best practices to make the best use of MATLAB while minimizing token burn. Your agent learns to write idiomatic code, generate and run tests, diagnose errors, build apps, and more.

The toolkit works with today's leading AI coding agents and is designed to evolve as the landscape changes.

Important

To use AI agents with Simulink®, install the Simulink Agentic Toolkit. If you plan to use both toolkits, consider the alternative installer — it sets up both in one step.

How It Works

The toolkit has two jobs. First, it gives your agent a live connection to MATLAB — so it can run code, execute tests, and analyze results, not just read and write files. Second, it provides curated expertise (called skills) that teach your agent how an experienced MATLAB engineer would approach a task. Your agent reads the relevant skill, then uses the MATLAB connection to do the work.

The toolkit ships automated setup for all supported platforms. Clone the repository, launch your agent, and ask it to set up the toolkit.

Supported Platforms

Platform	Setup	Notes
Claude Code	Automated	Also supports no-clone marketplace install (skills only)
GitHub® Copilot	Automated
OpenAI® Codex	Automated
Gemini™ CLI	Automated
Sourcegraph Amp	Automated

Automated setup has been verified with basic workflows on each platform. The toolkit is under active development — please report issues if you encounter problems.

Quick Start

Full walkthrough: See the Getting Started guide for detailed instructions, platform-specific notes, verification steps, and troubleshooting.

Prerequisites:

MATLAB R2020b or later
Supported AI coding agent
Git™

The MATLAB Agentic Toolkit helps you install and configure the MATLAB MCP Core Server, or can be configured to use your existing installation.

Full Setup (recommended)

Clone the repository, launch your agent from the toolkit directory, and ask it to set up the toolkit.

git clone https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit.git
cd matlab-agentic-toolkit

Launch your agent (claude, codex, gemini, etc.) and ask:

Set up the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit

Setup looks for your MATLAB installation(s), downloads the MCP server, writes your agent's global configuration, and registers skills. Once complete, start a new session in any project directory — MATLAB tools and skills are available everywhere.

Claude Code — no clone required: If you already have the MCP server configured, you can add skills directly without cloning:
claude plugin marketplace add "https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit"
claude plugin install matlab-core@matlab-agentic-toolkit
This installs skills only. Your existing MCP configuration is not modified. See the Getting Started guide for details.

Already Have the MCP Server?

If you installed the MATLAB MCP Core Server yourself, you just need skills. See Adding Skills Only in the Getting Started guide.

Alternative Installer (experimental)

The Simulink Agentic Toolkit provides a MATLAB-based installer that can install and configure both toolkits. This installer offers several benefits over the current matlab-agentic-toolkit-setup skill:

It can install both the MATLAB and Simulink Agentic Toolkits. It is recommended for users who would like to use both
It supports the MATLAB MCP Core Server option to connect to an existing MATLAB session (--matlab-session-mode=existing)
It provides the option to configure your agent to use the toolkits for individual projects, not just globally
This installer does not consume agent tokens

The tradeoff is that it is newer and less thoroughly tested than the agent-driven setup above.

Download agenticToolkitInstaller.mltbx from the Simulink Agentic Toolkit releases page.
Open the downloaded file to install the installer add-on.
In MATLAB, run: setupAgenticToolkit

Verify

Ask your agent:

What version of MATLAB is running? List the installed toolboxes.

MCP Tools

Provided by the MATLAB MCP Core Server:

Tool	What your agent can do
`evaluate_matlab_code`	Run MATLAB code and return command window output
`run_matlab_file`	Run a MATLAB program
`run_matlab_test_file`	Run tests via `runtests` with structured results
`check_matlab_code`	Static analysis with the Code Analyzer
`detect_matlab_toolboxes`	List installed MATLAB version and toolboxes

The server also provides two MCP resources: matlab_coding_guidelines (coding standards) and plain_text_live_code_guidelines (Live Script format rules).

Agent Skills

Skills are organized in the skills catalog.

Image Processing and Computer Vision — image processing and computer vision skills for AI coding agents.

MATLAB App Building — MATLAB app building skills for AI coding agents.

MATLAB Core — foundational MATLAB skills for AI coding agents.

MATLAB Software Development — MATLAB software development skills for AI coding agents.

Reporting and Database Access — reporting and database access skills for AI coding agents.

RF and Mixed Signal — RF and mixed-signal skills for AI coding agents.

Signal Processing — signal processing skills for AI coding agents.

Toolkit — setup and management for the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit.

Wireless Communications — wireless communications skills for AI coding agents.

Contributing

We welcome feedback through GitHub Issues. Pull requests are reviewed for ideas and feedback but are not merged from external contributors. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Security Considerations

When using the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit and MATLAB MCP Core Server, you should thoroughly review and validate all tool calls before you run them. Always keep a human in the loop for important actions and only proceed once you are confident the call will do exactly what you expect. For more information, see User Interaction Model (MCP) and Security Considerations (MCP).

Licensing and Usage

The license is available in the LICENSE.md file in this GitHub repository.

MCP servers are only permitted to be used with MATLAB in accordance with the MathWorks Software License Agreement, and must not be shared by multiple users. Contact MathWorks if you need to support shared or centralized server use.

Contact Support

MathWorks encourages you to use this repository and provide feedback. To request technical support or submit an enhancement request, create a GitHub issue or contact technical support. For MATLAB MCP Core Server issues and support, see the MATLAB MCP Core Server repository.