{"id":4237,"date":"2026-04-30T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/matlab\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:29:32","slug":"toolbox-specific-ai-skills-for-matlab-faster-cheaper-more-reliable-code-generation-from-claude-gemini-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/matlab\/2026\/04\/30\/toolbox-specific-ai-skills-for-matlab-faster-cheaper-more-reliable-code-generation-from-claude-gemini-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolbox-Specific AI Skills for MATLAB: Faster, Cheaper, More Reliable Code Generation from Claude, Gemini and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
TL:DR: The latest update of the <\/span>MATLAB Agentic Toolkit<\/span><\/a> includes the first of a set of advanced toolbox-specific skills that allow AI agents to perform various tasks more quickly, cheaply and robustly. This first round focuses on <\/span>Database Toolbox<\/span><\/a> with other toolbox-related skills in the pipeline.<\/span><\/div>

Skills: Strengthening an AI's MATLAB-Fu<\/span><\/h3>
There's a scene in the 1999 movie 'The Matrix' where Neo has martial arts skills downloaded to his brain. His eyes snap open and he announces \"I know Kung-Fu!\". It's very cool! <\/span><\/div>
AI skills are a bit like that for but for AI agents and when MathWorks released the <\/span>MATLAB Agentic Toolkit<\/span><\/a>, we started providing curated skills that work with the most commonly used AI agents today. That is, if you use the toolkit then you can dramatically improve an AI agent's 'MATLAB-Fu'. <\/span><\/div>
The first set of skills in the toolkit were very generic; things like 'Modernize Code' and 'Create Live Script'. Last week, just two weeks after <\/span>the first release<\/span><\/a>, we released an update that contains the first toolbox-specific skills. They are for Database Toolbox and include the following<\/span><\/div>