Agent skill

Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails

by matlab in matlab/agent-skills-playground

A skill your agent uses when a learner asks for help with MATLAB homework, labs, projects, graded assignments, take-home exams, quizzes, or any programming task where academic integrity, course…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedEducation

Install Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails

skills CLI
$ npx skills add matlab/agent-skills-playground --skill matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install matlab/agent-skills-playground matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matlab/agent-skills-playground.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails .claude/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails
GitHub stars
183
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
728 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
29
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a learner asks for help with MATLAB homework, labs, projects, graded assignments, take-home exams, quizzes, or any programming task where academic integrity, course…

  • Works in 4 steps: Apply local AI-POLICY.md when available.… → Ask for the learner's current attempt,… → Offer concept help, diagnostic… → …
  • A learner asks for help with MATLAB homework
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Course Policy Lookup, First Response Pattern and Allowed Help, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails is an agent skill from matlab/agent-skills-playground. Use when a learner asks for help with MATLAB homework, labs, projects, graded assignments, take-home exams, quizzes, or any programming task where academic integrity, course policy, or instructor constraints may limit direct solutions. Use to provide policy-aware hints, conceptual coaching, partial feedback, and assignment-safe MATLAB tutoring.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/guardrail-patterns.md`).

It sits in Education, covering Tutoring and explanations, LLM guardrails and Quizzes and assessments. The repository describes itself as: A sandbox for prototyping and demonstrating Agent Skills for MATLAB and Simulink work.

When your agent uses it

  • A learner asks for help with MATLAB homework
  • Graded assignments
  • Take-home exams
  • Any programming task where academic integrity

Example prompts

  • “/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Apply local AI-POLICY.md when available. Otherwise ask whether the task is
  2. Ask for the learner's current attempt, error message, or reasoning.
  3. Offer concept help, diagnostic questions, or a small analogous example.
  4. Avoid giving a complete submission-ready solution unless the user confirms it

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7b14a77. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 728 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 728 words (~1,366 tokens).

“Help learners make progress on MATLAB assignments without bypassing the learning task. Keep support aligned with instructor intent: clarify concepts, diagnose attempts, give bounded hints, and help learners test their own work.”

— opening of SKILL.md by matlab, Custom licence
name
matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails
license
https://www.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/license/pmrl/license.md
metadata.author
MathWorks
metadata.version
1.0

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails of matlab/agent-skills-playground.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/guardrail-patterns.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7b14a77

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Questions about Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails

What does Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails do?

A skill your agent uses when a learner asks for help with MATLAB homework, labs, projects, graded assignments, take-home exams, quizzes, or any programming task where academic integrity, course…. Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails is an agent skill from matlab/agent-skills-playground. Use when a learner asks for help with MATLAB homework, labs, projects, graded assignments, take-home exams, quizzes, or any programming task where academic integrity, course policy, or instructor constraints may limit direct solutions.

When should I use Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails?

Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails fits situations like: A learner asks for help with MATLAB homework; graded assignments; take-home exams; any programming task where academic integrity.

How do I install Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add matlab/agent-skills-playground --skill matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails in matlab/agent-skills-playground) into .claude/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails in Codex?

Run `npx skills add matlab/agent-skills-playground --skill matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails in matlab/agent-skills-playground) into .agents/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add matlab/agent-skills-playground --skill matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails, .gemini/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails, .github/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails and .opencode/skills/matlab-apply-assignment-guardrails in your project.

What does Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails is instructions for the agent only.

Does Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails use?

Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 705 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Matlab Apply Assignment Guardrails?

matlab (a GitHub organization) maintains it in matlab/agent-skills-playground, which has 183 GitHub stars. The repository holds 29 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: matlab/agent-skills-playground on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.