Agent skill

Matlab Create Live Script

by matlab in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit

Create, edit, and run plain-text MATLAB live scripts (.m files) with rich text formatting, LaTeX equations, section breaks, and inline figures.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Matlab Create Live Script

skills CLI
$ npx skills add matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-create-live-script -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit matlab-create-live-script --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/matlab-agentic-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills-catalog/matlab-core/matlab-create-live-script .claude/skills/matlab-create-live-script && 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-create-live-script
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
963 words
Files
3 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
142
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Create, edit, and run plain-text MATLAB live scripts (.m files) with rich text formatting, LaTeX equations, section breaks, and inline figures.

  • Works in 5 steps: Plan — Title, setup, analysis sections,… → Write — %[text] for text, %% for… → Validate (if MATLAB attached) — Run the… → …
  • Generating tutorials
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, When NOT to Use, Converting from .mlx and Rules, plus 9 more sections
  • Analysis notebooks

What it does

Matlab Create Live Script is an agent skill from matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit. Create, edit, and run plain-text MATLAB live scripts (.m files) with rich text formatting, LaTeX equations, section breaks, and inline figures. Use when generating tutorials, analysis notebooks, reports, documentation, or educational content, when modifying existing live scripts, or when converting existing binary .mlx files to .m for version control. Requires R2025a+.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including scripts (for example `manifest.yaml`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering LaTeX, Git workflow and Educational content. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: The MATLAB Agentic Toolkit brings proven MATLAB capabilities to AI agents, making engineering and scientific workflows agent-ready.

When your agent uses it

  • Generating tutorials
  • Analysis notebooks
  • Educational content
  • Modifying existing live scripts

Example prompts

  • “/matlab-create-live-script”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Plan — Title, setup, analysis sections, summary
  2. Write — %[text] for text, %% for sections, appendix at end. Use a tool that takes literal text (Edit, Write, fwrite). Don't use Bash…
  3. Validate (if MATLAB attached) — Run the code through evaluate_matlab_code to confirm it executes cleanly. Note the wall-clock time — Embed…
  4. Embed Outputs (optional, if MATLAB attached) — Run executeLiveScript(".m") to save each section's outputs (plots, displayed values) inline…
  5. Verify Rendering (optional, if MATLAB attached) — Run export(".m", ".html") to produce an HTML approximation of the rendered document…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 59dfd92. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

    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 Create Live Script loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 963 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k

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); the scripts in this folder 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 963 words (~2,359 tokens).

“Plain-text .m files that render as rich documents in the MATLAB Live Editor. Version-control friendly — never use binary .mlx.”

— opening of SKILL.md by matlab, Custom licence
name
matlab-create-live-script
license
https://www.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/license/pmrl/license.md
metadata.author
MathWorks
metadata.version
2.2

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in skills-catalog/matlab-core/matlab-create-live-script of matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit.

  • SKILL.md
  • manifest.yaml
  • scripts/executeLiveScript.p

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 59dfd92

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Questions about Matlab Create Live Script

What does Matlab Create Live Script do?

Create, edit, and run plain-text MATLAB live scripts (.m files) with rich text formatting, LaTeX equations, section breaks, and inline figures. Matlab Create Live Script is an agent skill from matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit.m files) with rich text formatting, LaTeX equations, section breaks, and inline figures.

When should I use Matlab Create Live Script?

Matlab Create Live Script fits situations like: generating tutorials; analysis notebooks; educational content; modifying existing live scripts.

How do I install Matlab Create Live Script in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-create-live-script -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills-catalog/matlab-core/matlab-create-live-script in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit) into .claude/skills/matlab-create-live-script in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Matlab Create Live Script in Codex?

Run `npx skills add matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-create-live-script -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills-catalog/matlab-core/matlab-create-live-script in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit) into .agents/skills/matlab-create-live-script in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Matlab Create Live Script 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/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-create-live-script -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-create-live-script, .gemini/skills/matlab-create-live-script, .github/skills/matlab-create-live-script and .opencode/skills/matlab-create-live-script in your project.

What does Matlab Create Live Script need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Matlab Create Live Script is instructions for the agent only.

Does Matlab Create Live Script 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 Create Live Script 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Matlab Create Live Script use?

Matlab Create Live Script 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 Create Live Script use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Matlab Create Live Script?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Matlab Create Live Script: AutoMCM-Pro for Codex CLI (RealSeaberry/AutoMCM-Pro, 257 stars), Research Writing (alfonso0512/research-writing-skill, 487 stars), Paper Writing (MLNLP-World/Paper-Writing-Tips, 4.7k stars) and Evomath Tao (EvoScientist/EvoSkills, 475 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Matlab Create Live Script?

matlab (a GitHub organization) maintains it in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit, which has 1,140 GitHub stars. The repository holds 142 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

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