Agent skill

Matlab Display Volume

by matlab in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit

Display 3-D image volumes, medical image volumes, surface meshes, and annotations for 3-D image processing.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Matlab Display Volume

skills CLI
$ npx skills add matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-display-volume -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit matlab-display-volume --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/image-processing-and-computer-vision/matlab-display-volume .claude/skills/matlab-display-volume && 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-display-volume
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~4.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,762 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
142
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Display 3-D image volumes, medical image volumes, surface meshes, and annotations for 3-D image processing.

  • Works in 6 steps: Create Viewer — call viewer3d() or… → Add Volume — call volshow(V,… → (Optional) Add surfaces — call… → …
  • Displaying 3-D images
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, When NOT to Use, Medical Image Volumes and Key Objects, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Matlab Display Volume is an agent skill from matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit. Display 3-D image volumes, medical image volumes, surface meshes, and annotations for 3-D image processing. Use when displaying 3-D images or isosurfaces with volshow, creating volume viewers with viewer3d, adding Regions of Interest (ROI) or annotations, overlaying masks or segmentations, streaming volumetric data, or building apps with volume display.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `manifest.yaml`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Computer vision. 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

  • Displaying 3-D images
  • Isosurfaces with volshow
  • Creating volume viewers with viewer3d
  • Adding Regions of Interest (ROI)

Example prompts

  • “/matlab-display-volume”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Create Viewer — call viewer3d() or viewer3d(parent) for app contexts
  2. Add Volume — call volshow(V, Parent=viewer) to display volumetric data
  3. (Optional) Add surfaces — call images.ui.graphics.Surface(viewer, Data=tri) for mesh display
  4. (Optional) Add annotations — call uidraw(volObj, "line") for interactive ROIs
  5. (Optional) Configure callbacks — set CameraMovedFcn, AnnotationMovedFcn, or ObjectClickedFcn on the Viewer
  6. Update data — set obj.Data = newV to stream; use waitfor(viewer,"Busy",false) for synchronization

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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are matlab).

    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 Display Volume loads about 4.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,762 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.8k

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 1,762 words (~4,812 tokens).

“Display volumes with volshow for performant, high quality volume display. Display isosurface meshes, triangulations, and surfaces using images.ui.graphics.Surface rather than isosurface for more performant, higher quality mesh display with more responsive interactions for meshes of all sizes.”

— opening of SKILL.md by matlab, Custom licence
name
matlab-display-volume
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 in skills-catalog/image-processing-and-computer-vision/matlab-display-volume of matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit.

  • SKILL.md
  • manifest.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 59dfd92

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Questions about Matlab Display Volume

What does Matlab Display Volume do?

Display 3-D image volumes, medical image volumes, surface meshes, and annotations for 3-D image processing. Matlab Display Volume is an agent skill from matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit. Display 3-D image volumes, medical image volumes, surface meshes, and annotations for 3-D image processing.

When should I use Matlab Display Volume?

Matlab Display Volume fits situations like: displaying 3-D images; isosurfaces with volshow; creating volume viewers with viewer3d; adding Regions of Interest (ROI).

How do I install Matlab Display Volume in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-display-volume -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills-catalog/image-processing-and-computer-vision/matlab-display-volume in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit) into .claude/skills/matlab-display-volume in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Matlab Display Volume in Codex?

Run `npx skills add matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit --skill matlab-display-volume -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills-catalog/image-processing-and-computer-vision/matlab-display-volume in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit) into .agents/skills/matlab-display-volume in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Matlab Display Volume 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-display-volume -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-display-volume, .gemini/skills/matlab-display-volume, .github/skills/matlab-display-volume and .opencode/skills/matlab-display-volume in your project.

What does Matlab Display Volume need to run?

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

Does Matlab Display Volume 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 Display Volume 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 Display Volume use?

Matlab Display Volume 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 Display Volume use?

About 4.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 19k 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 Display Volume?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Matlab Display Volume: Segment Anything Model Guide (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars), CLIP Image-Text Matching (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars), Yolo Master Agent (Tencent/YOLO-Master, 742 stars) and Video Understand (jjyaoao/HelloAgents, 3.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Matlab Display Volume?

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.