All Skills

Stage exploration before instruction on complex problems. The learner produces two attempted approaches before consolidation — which builds on those attempts, not from scratch. Use for genuinely hard problems where struggle produces deeper learning.

Capture confidence ratings before and after a learning attempt to identify overconfidence and underconfidence patterns. Use when a student wants to understand how well they actually know something versus how well they think they know it.

Design a Funhouse Mirror activity where students use their own domain expertise to detect AI distortions, omissions, and overconfidence. Use when students know a subject well enough to evaluate AI claims about it.

Design an error analysis protocol to diagnose the root cause of student mistakes and misconceptions. Use when error patterns appear in student work and targeted feedback is needed.

Tier vocabulary from a text or topic into everyday, academic, and technical categories with teaching priorities. Use when pre-teaching vocabulary or identifying language barriers in a text.

Audit a proposed assessment for construct validity, reliability, and alignment to learning objectives. Use when reviewing or quality-assuring assessments before deployment.

Analyse existing written feedback for quality, specificity, actionability, and impact on student learning. Use when reviewing teacher or peer feedback to improve feedback practices.

Design a complete lesson study cycle from research question through collaborative planning to research lesson. Use when planning jugyou kenkyuu or collaborative teacher inquiry into practice.

Routes between five assessment pathways — formative, rubric/criteria, authentic/performance, peer/self, and diagnostic — with validity and equity checks. Use when a teacher needs help choosing how to assess.

Plan a unit using backwards design from desired outcomes through assessment evidence to learning activities. Use when starting a new unit or redesigning an existing one from standards.

Select and configure a structured discussion protocol matched to the purpose, topic, and group readiness. Use when planning classroom discussions, Socratic seminars, or structured debate.

Design a SEEDS regenerative inquiry cycle connecting place-based learning to ecological awareness for young learners. Use when building early childhood or primary inquiry around ecosystems and community.

Generate scaffolds that gradually increase student choice, voice, and ownership within a learning task. Use when students depend heavily on teacher direction and need to develop autonomy.

Design a developmental band system mapping student growth from early childhood through upper secondary. Use when building competency-based curriculum architecture for a school or programme.

Generate follow-up teaching moves that extend student thinking after a specific classroom response. Use when a student says something worth exploring and the teacher wants to deepen the dialogue.

Perform a static audit of an AL workspace for Business Central against the project's copilot-instructions.md contract. Reports findings by class (Compliance, Code quality, Test coverage, Permissions) and severity (Blocker, Major, Minor, Nit) with file:line citations. Never modifies code. Never invents rules. Use when asked to audit a workspace, run a compliance check, review before PR, or diagnose contract drift.

AL version migration for Business Central. Use when upgrading extensions between BC versions, handling breaking changes, or implementing rollback strategies.

AL permission set design for Business Central. Use when creating PermissionSets, implementing least-privilege access, or designing security models for extensions.

Generate, review, and optimize natural language instructions for Business Central agents (Designer or SDK). Triggers on: agent instructions, InstructionsV1.txt, InstructionsV2.txt, MEMORIZE, qualification rules, agent behavior, instruction keywords, agent task instructions, iterate instructions, or improve agent accuracy. Follows the Responsibilities-Guidelines-Instructions framework with official BC agent runtime keywords.

Diagnose MATLAB errors and unexpected behavior. Breakpoints, workspace inspection, try-catch diagnostics, and common error patterns. Use when debugging functions, tracing errors, inspecting variables, or diagnosing runtime failures.

Fit curves and surfaces interactively with the Curve Fitter app for a complete no-code fitting workflow. Invoke this skill when the Curve Fitter app, cftool, curveFitter, or "curve fitting tool/app" is mentioned in any way. Also use when exploring or comparing fit types (regression, interpolation, smoothing, splines, custom equations); excluding outliers interactively; iterating on a fitting workflow; help choosing a fit type; and exporting to a figure, generating MATLAB code, fits to the workspace, and to Simulink Lookup Tables.

Deterministic workflow to download MATLAB Package Manager (mpm) and install MathWorks products from the OS command line with consistent, repeatable behavior. Use when installing MATLAB, Simulink, toolboxes, or support packages via command line, or setting up scripted installations for CI/CD, containers, or fleet provisioning.

Generate, verify, refine, and accelerate C/C++ or CUDA code from MATLAB with MATLAB Coder, Embedded Coder, GPU Coder, or MATLAB Test. Also covers writing codegen-ready MATLAB code: language constraints, coder.* directives, and optimization patterns. Triggers on: codegen, MEX, deploy MATLAB as C/C++, GPU Coder, coder.screener, coder.config, coder.gpuConfig, coder.typeof, coder.runTest, matlabtest.coder.TestCase, SIL, embedded config, no dynamic memory, EnableMexProfiling, coder.timeit, coder.perfCompare, %#codegen, writing codegen-ready MATLAB, code generation readiness, coder.varsize, coder.unroll, coder.noImplicitExpansionInFunction, coder.ceval, coder.inline, coder.extrinsic, coder.const, coder.classSignature, class codegen limitations, temporal types codegen, DMA-off, stack-only, host-target InstructionSetExtensions, SIMDAcceleration, OptimizeReductions, host SIMD tuning, host OpenMP, codegen performance.

Guides the agent to reference official MathWorks Documentation and Help. Determine correct function syntax and workflows from user guides when deeper context is needed. Minimize iterations and repetitive trial and error. Use this skill to: Identify correct syntax and configuration details. Retrieve relevant, version-specific (or release-specific) information from official documentation. Consult user guides when conceptual or workflow context is needed. Apply best practices.

End-to-end finite element analysis in MATLAB PDE Toolbox — geometry creation, model setup, solve, and post-processing in one skill. Use when building geometry from primitives or file import, setting up femodel with BCs/loads/materials, solving thermal/structural/EM problems, and extracting or visualizing results. Covers fegeometry, multicuboid, multicylinder, multisphere, decsg, boolean ops, mesh generation, femodel, all AnalysisTypes (thermalSteady, thermalTransient, structuralStatic, structuralTransient, structuralModal, structuralFrequency, electrostatic, magnetostatic, dcConduction, harmonic EM), materialProperties, faceBC, faceLoad, cellLoad, vertexLoad, solve, interpolation, von Mises stress, principal stress, reaction forces, heat flux, pdeplot3D visualization. Triggers on: PDE Toolbox, finite element, FEA, thermal analysis, structural analysis, electromagnetic analysis, femodel, mesh, boundary conditions, stress, displacement, heat transfer, post-processing.

Read BEFORE writing any code that adds Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) to signals and converts between SNR, Eb/No, Es/No, and per-subcarrier SNR for communications simulations, using awgn(), convertSNR(), berawgn(). The default MATLAB patterns for AWGN (e.g., 'measured' option, manual SNR formulas) produce subtly incorrect results. This skill specifies the correct calling conventions, required function usage, and critical anti-patterns that must be avoided.

Speed up local parfor, parfeval, or spmd by switching to a thread-based parallel pool. Trigger when a user describes slow or disappointing local parallel performance, even if they don't mention threads. Symptoms: parfor on a laptop/workstation is slower than expected or "only slightly faster than for"; parfor scales poorly with the number of workers; ticBytes/tocBytes, the Parallel Pool dashboard, mpiprofile, or system tools show large per-worker data transfer; large broadcast variables or sliced inputs make iterations slow; opening a process pool dominates a short workload; user mentions serialisation or data transfer overhead. Also trigger on any question about whether code or a function works on a thread pool. For non-pool MATLAB performance work (vectorisation, preallocation, profiling), defer to matlab-optimize-performance.

PDN DC voltage/current analysis, IR drop, design rule checking, and multi-net batch analysis on imported PCB layouts. TRIGGER: user asks about power integrity, PDN analysis, IR drop, voltage distribution, current density, power nets, or design rule checking on a PCB. Invoke BEFORE writing code — the PDN API chain is specialized and non-obvious. SKIP: importing a PCB file (use matlab-read-pcb-layout), EM field/S-parameter extraction (use matlab-analyze-em), material/stackup setup only (use matlab-manage-pcb-material), transmission line design (use matlab-design-pcb-transmission-line).

Deploy AI models to embedded hardware using MathWorks tools (MATLAB, Simulink, Embedded Coder). Covers two workflow patterns: (1) MathWorks-native or imported models rebuilt as dlnetwork for lean hardware, (2) direct C/C++ code generation from PyTorch and LiteRT models. Both patterns support all targets (Cortex-M/A/R, x86, GPU). Trigger when: user wants to deploy AI to embedded targets; generate C/CUDA from neural networks; compress AI models for MCU; integrate AI in Simulink for system-level simulation; import PyTorch/ONNX/TensorFlow models for embedded deployment; optimize AI for resource-constrained hardware; or use loadPyTorchExportedProgram, loadLiteRTModel, importNetworkFromPyTorch, importNetworkFromONNX, importNetworkFromTensorFlow, importNetworkFromKeras, dlquantizer, exportNetworkToSimulink, or Embedded Coder with AI models.

Guide authoring of Audio Toolbox plugins (audioPlugin, audioPluginSource) that pass validateAudioPlugin and generate deployable VST/AU code. Use when creating audio effect or generator plugins, writing classdef files inheriting from audioPlugin, or troubleshooting validateAudioPlugin failures.

Integrate antennas into RF systems using MATLAB Antenna Toolbox and RF Toolbox. Covers impedance matching network design (L/Pi/Tee topologies, evaluation parameters, Richards transformation), measured antenna creation (E-field, directivity-only, EmbeddedE, ffsReader import), RF propagation and site planning (txsite/rxsite, coverage, SINR, ray tracing, link budget), and SAR estimation (birdcage+Phantom, conformalArray+Custom3D, direct EHfields). Use when the user wants to match an antenna, create a measuredAntenna, compute coverage or signal strength, perform ray tracing, or estimate SAR.

Generate or improve MATLAB help text (documentation comments) for a function, class, or script file following MathWorks standards (H1 line, syntax paragraphs, See Also, 75-char lines). Read BEFORE writing MATLAB help — default patterns (Inputs:/Outputs: lists, block comments, uppercase See Also) produce non-conforming output. Use when writing, rewriting, fixing, or reviewing MATLAB help comments or function documentation.

Compute aerospace environment properties including atmosphere (ISA, COESA, NRLMSISE-00, non-standard, CIRA), gravity (spherical harmonic, WGS84, zonal, centrifugal), horizontal wind (HWM), magnetic field (WMM, IGRF), geoid height, geocentric radius, space weather data, planetary ephemeris, Earth orientation (polar motion, nutation, delta-UT1, CIP). Use when computing atmospheric density, temperature, pressure, gravity vectors, wind profiles, magnetic field components, geoid undulation, solar flux indices, planet positions, or Earth orientation parameters for aerospace vehicle analysis, spacecraft environment modeling, or navigation corrections.

Dielectric substrates, metal conductors, multi-layer stackups, and loss models (FR4, Rogers, Teflon) for RF PCB simulation. TRIGGER: user asks to set up a substrate, define dielectric properties, create a stackup, select a PCB material (FR4, Rogers, Teflon, etc.), or configure metal conductors. Invoke BEFORE writing dielectric() or metal() code — the API for named vs custom materials differs significantly. SKIP: PCB layout assembly (use matlab-assemble-pcb-layout), transmission line design (use matlab-design-pcb-transmission-line), EM analysis (use matlab-analyze-em), importing a PCB file (use matlab-read-pcb-layout).

Use DuckDB from MATLAB via Database Toolbox (R2026a+) as a non-math operations engine on large tabular files (CSV/Parquet/JSON) and as a zero-config embedded database. Use when connecting to DuckDB, querying CSV, Parquet, and JSON files directly with SQL, reducing or profiling large data before MATLAB analysis, creating portable development databases, or installing DuckDB extensions. Triggers on: DuckDB, duckdb(), large CSV/Parquet/JSON, file too large for readtable, filter/aggregate at source, deduplicate, reduce before analysis, profile large file, persistent file import, analytical engine, SQL on CSV, SQL on Parquet, SQL on JSON, query CSV with SQL, query Parquet with SQL, run SQL on files, SQL queries on files, query files directly, SQL without database, in-process SQL.

Use when setting up vehicle network communication in MATLAB using Vehicle Network Toolbox. Covers CAN/CAN FD (fully implemented), with architecture for J1939, XCP, and future protocols. Handles hardware discovery, channel creation, bus configuration, message exchange, signal encoding/decoding, and analysis across all supported vendors. (Vector, Kvaser, PEAK-System, NI, SocketCAN, MathWorks Virtual).