MATLAB Agentic Toolkit
The MATLAB® Agentic Toolkit allows you to use AI agents with MATLAB by giving your AI agent the knowledge and context to work efficiently with MATLAB and its toolboxes. Use this toolkit to provide trusted MATLAB capabilities to your agent. This toolkit can prevent your AI coding agent from hallucinating toolbox functions, missing new features, and wasting time with extra steps that experienced MATLAB users would skip.
Use this toolkit to:
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Connect your AI agent to MATLAB. This toolkit does this by automatically installing the MATLAB MCP Core Server. You can then use your agent to write idiomatic code, generate and run tests, diagnose errors, build apps, and more.
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Provide curated expertise, called skills, to your agent. These skills equip your agent with knowledge of MATLAB workflows, conventions, and best practices while minimizing token burn.
[!Note] To use AI agents with Simulink® only, install the Simulink Agentic Toolkit. To install both the toolkits, use the Agentic Toolkit Installer.
Requirements
- MATLAB R2021a or later
- Git™
- AI coding agent that supports MCP servers and skills. Supported agents are configured automatically. Otherwise, refer to your agent’s documentation to manually configure the MCP server and install skills. Supported agents include:
- Claude Code
- GitHub® Copilot
- OpenAI® Codex
- Gemini™ CLI
- Sourcegraph Amp
Get Started with the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit
These steps show you how to use the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit to install the MATLAB MCP Core Server and add skills to your agent.
Note: For detailed instructions on configuration options for this toolkit, platform-specific notes, verification steps, and troubleshooting, see Configuration and Troubleshooting. If you already have the MCP server installed and only need to add skills, see Adding Skills Only.
Install the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit
You can use the Agentic Toolkit installer to set up the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit. The installer:
- Supports both the MATLAB and Simulink Agentic Toolkits.
- Supports connecting to an existing MATLAB session (
--matlab-session-mode="auto" or "existing"). - Provides the option to configure your agent for individual projects or globally.
Follow these steps to set up the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit.
- To download the installer, click agenticToolkitInstaller.mltbx.
- Open the downloaded file to install the installer add-on.
- In MATLAB, run this command.
setupAgenticToolkit("install")
Install only the skill groups relevant to your work — this helps your agent reliably trigger the right skills. To add more skill groups later, re-run the installer.
Alternative Install Workflow Using Agent
You can also use your agent to set up the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit. Note that this approach installs all skill groups. To use specific skill groups only, you must manually remove other skill groups after setup (see Adding Skills Only). The MATLAB-based installer above is recommended for most users.
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit.git
cd matlab-agentic-toolkit
Deploy your agent (claude, codex, gemini, etc.) and ask the agent to set up the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit.
Set up the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit
The setup looks for your most recent MATLAB installation, downloads the MCP server binary to ~/.matlab/agentic-toolkits/bin/, writes your agent's global configuration, and registers skills through the agent's native plugin system or global skill links. After your setup is complete, start a new session in any project directory to use the MATLAB tools and skills.
Verify
Ask your agent:
What version of MATLAB is running? List the installed toolboxes.
Run and Test MATLAB Code Using MCP Tools
After you install the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit, your agent can use these tools provided by the MATLAB MCP Core Server.
| Tasks you can ask your agent to do | Tool used by agent |
|---|---|
| Run MATLAB code and return command window output | evaluate_matlab_code |
| Run a MATLAB program | run_matlab_file |
Run tests via runtests with structured results |
run_matlab_test_file |
| Static analysis with the Code Analyzer | check_matlab_code |
| List installed MATLAB version and toolboxes | detect_matlab_toolboxes |
The server also provides two MCP resources: matlab_coding_guidelines (coding standards) and plain_text_live_code_guidelines (Live Script format rules).
Run MATLAB Workflows Using Agent Skills
After you install the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit, your agent can use skills. For best results, install only the skill groups relevant to your work — agents are more reliable at triggering skills when fewer are loaded. You can also manually trigger a specific skill by name (e.g., /matlab-testing in Claude Code) to guarantee it loads. To read details about all the skills, see the skills catalog. Skill groups include:
MATLAB Skills
| Skill Group | Description |
|---|---|
| MATLAB Core | Create, debug, test, review, and manage MATLAB code and installations |
| MATLAB App Building | Build MATLAB apps programmatically using UI components, layouts, callbacks, and web integration |
| MATLAB Data Import and Analysis | Analyze tabular data in MATLAB using tables, timetables, filtering, aggregation, and time-series operations |
| MATLAB Programming | Write robust MATLAB functions with validated inputs |
| MATLAB Software Development | Modernize legacy code, optimize performance and memory, document and create toolboxes, create projects, and develop build plans |
Toolbox Skills
| Skill Group | Supported Products |
|---|---|
| AI and Statistics | Deep Learning Toolbox |
| Automotive | Automated Driving Toolbox, RoadRunner, and RoadRunner Scene Builder |
| Computational Biology | SimBiology |
| Image Processing and Computer Vision | Image Processing Toolbox and Computer Vision Toolbox |
| Parallel Computing | Parallel Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Parallel Server |
| Radar | Phased Array System Toolbox, Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox, and Mapping Toolbox |
| Reporting and Database Access | Database Toolbox |
| RF and Mixed Signal | Antenna Toolbox, RF Toolbox, RF PCB Toolbox, and SerDes Toolbox |
| Robotics and Autonomous Systems | Navigation Toolbox and UAV Toolbox |
| Signal Processing | Signal Processing Toolbox, DSP System Toolbox, Wavelet Toolbox, and DSP HDL Toolbox |
| Test and Measurement | Data Acquisition Toolbox and Industrial Communication Toolbox |
| Wireless Communications | Communications Toolbox, 5G Toolbox, WLAN Toolbox, Bluetooth Toolbox, Satellite Communications Toolbox, Wireless Network Toolbox, and Wireless Testbench |
Update the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit
To update the toolkit, run this command in MATLAB.
setupAgenticToolkit("update")
This updates the skills, configurations, and MCP server binary for both the MATLAB and Simulink Agentic Toolkits.
Note: The installer add-on is updated separately. To get the latest installer, re-download agenticToolkitInstaller.mltbx and open it in MATLAB.
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)](https:/