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MATLAB Programming Coach

A tutoring skill that classifies a learner's MATLAB question and routes it to the right specialized MATLAB skill while teaching the underlying data model.

EducationIntermediate★ 184⑂ 33AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 9, 2026

What it does

  • Diagnoses whether the learner is stuck on syntax, arrays and indexing, tables, functions, plotting, debugging, testing, or a toolbox-specific workflow.
  • Routes to MATLAB Agentic Toolkit skills such as matlab-debugging, matlab-testing, matlab-analyze-data, matlab-optimize-performance, and matlab-modernize-code.
  • Applies concrete teaching rules: predict input/output shapes before explaining a command, inspect class, size, whos when errors appear, prefer small runnable snippets.
  • Treats learner-supplied code as untrusted and screens for file, network, shell, dynamic-execution, or destructive operations before running anything.
  • Hands off graded/homework-style prompts and tutor-quality reviews to dedicated companion skills.

Who it's for

  • Instructors, TAs, and tutors teaching MATLAB
  • Self-learners who want to understand MATLAB's data model, not just copy syntax
  • Teams assembling an AI tutoring stack on top of the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit

Examples

  1. A student confuses x.^2 with x^2: the coach explains element-wise vs matrix operators and asks for a shape prediction first.
  2. A learner is stuck on missing values after readtable: the skill routes to the data-analysis skill.
  3. A script throws a runtime error: the coach guides building a minimal reproduction, then hands off to the debugging coach.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matlab/agent-skills-playground/HEAD/demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-coach-programming/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-coach-programming folder from the GitHub repo matlab/agent-skills-playground into my ~/.claude/skills/matlab-coach-programming/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/matlab/agent-skills-playground.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r agent-skills-playground/demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-coach-programming ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/matlab/agent-skills-playground.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r agent-skills-playground/demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-coach-programming ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Also copy the companion skills in demos/ai-tutoring/skills/ (e.g. matlab-tutor-learners, matlab-coach-debugging) so the routing targets exist.
  6. For real code execution, install MATLAB and the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit skills separately.
  7. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "explain MATLAB logical indexing" to confirm the skill triggers.
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