agent-skills-playground

Use this skill when the user wants to author, design, scope, or refine an Agent Skill (a SKILL.md file). Trigger phrases include "build a new skill", "design an agent skill", "scope a SKILL.md", "how should I structure this skill", "write a skill for X", "my skill isn't working well", or any request to improve an existing SKILL.md. Walks the user through an empirical, test-first process — probe the agent for real failures, design only for genuine knowledge gaps, iterate against runnable examples, and verify across models.

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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.

Use when tutoring a learner through MATLAB debugging, error interpretation, failed tests, incorrect outputs, array-shape problems, indexing mistakes, function argument issues, or code repair practice. Use for guided debugging sessions, debugging drills, teach-the-agent critique, and evidence-based MATLAB troubleshooting.

Use when an AI tutor session concerns MATLAB programming concepts, MATLAB syntax, MATLAB errors, MATLAB code style, MATLAB projects, or MATLAB toolbox workflows.

Use when an instructor wants to create, interview for, configure, install, update, or review a course AI-use policy for MATLAB AI tutoring. Produces an AI-POLICY.md file for LMS sharing and local tutoring-session enforcement by assignment guardrails.

Create MATLAB Course Designer MATLAB Exercise learning activities by wrapping the existing matlab-generate-grader-assessments skill, then validating generated solution.m, template.m, and tests.m files with MATLAB MCP Server tool calls. Use when the user asks to create a MATLAB Exercise, MATLAB course activity, Course Designer MATLAB activity, validated MATLAB solution file, or MATLAB Exercise component folder.

Use when prompting a learner to complete hands-on MATLAB coding exercises, guided practice, debugging drills, code tracing, small MATLAB projects, or MATLAB-script assessment during tutoring. Use when the tutor should create a complete runnable MATLAB script, execute it through MATLAB tools, compare the produced outputs with expected outputs, and evaluate MATLAB programming style.

Use when creating, asking, grading, or explaining multiple choice questions for MATLAB programming practice, concept checks, quizzes, or tutoring exercises.

Use when reviewing, auditing, scoring, or improving a real or synthetic MATLAB AI tutor transcript, tutoring prompt, generated lesson, exercise, feedback sequence, or skill behavior for MATLAB accuracy, active learning, assignment guardrails, feedback quality, debugging support, transfer prompts, and instructor-facing quality recommendations.

Interview an instructor and generate a complete MATLAB and Simulink enabled course in IMS Common Cartridge format. Use when the user asks to create a MATLAB course, Simulink course, MATLAB and Simulink curriculum, MATLAB Course Designer-ready course shell, Common Cartridge course package, .imscc export, MATLAB Exercises with validated .m files, or Simulink Exercises with starter and solution model files. Coordinates IDStack, MATLAB Agentic Toolkit, Simulink Agentic Toolkit, matlab-create-course-activity, simulink-create-course-activity, and the existing matlab-generate-grader-assessments skill.

Generate MATLAB Grader assessment item sets. Use when the user asks to create MATLAB Grader assessment items, generate MATLAB assessment materials, build MATLAB homework assessment items, QTI 3 portable assessment items, or mentions "grader assessment items". Produces complete assessment item folders with description, solution, template, tests, Function call blocks, and optional QTI 3 interchange files.

Use when starting, continuing, updating, exporting, or sharing a running transcript of a MATLAB AI tutoring session, especially when the transcript will be shared with an instructor, attached to a learner session report, or passed to an evaluation workflow for quality review.

Optimize MATLAB code for better performance through vectorization, memory management, and profiling. Use when user requests optimization, mentions slow code, performance issues, speed improvements, or asks to make code faster or more efficient.

Use when an instructor asks for a setup guide, adoption guide, planning guide, implementation checklist, prerequisite check, MATLAB Course Designer course structure plan, Common Cartridge workflow, Simulink starter and solution model planning, LMS import plan, or starter prompt for creating a MATLAB and Simulink enabled course with the matlab-generate-course skill.

Use when an instructor asks for a MATLAB Grader assessment setup guide, adoption guide, pilot plan, course-specific rollout, QTI 3 sharing workflow, or recommended MATLAB Grader assessment-item-generation configuration based on a learning objective, course title, course description, module description, lab description, or assessment goal.

Use when an instructor asks for a MATLAB AI tutor setup guide, adoption guide, pilot plan, course-specific rollout, or recommended tutor configuration based on a learning objective, course title, course description, module description, or lab description.

Use this skill for any work involving a MATLAB Project (.prj file) — creating a new project, tracking files, managing the project path, configuring Simulink cache and code-generation folders, running project health checks, or writing build scripts that keep the project in sync with the file system. Trigger phrases include "set up a MATLAB project", "create a .prj", "track this file in the project", "project health check", "build script conventions". This skill is the generic foundation; domain-specific skills (e.g. `mbse-workflow`) build on it.

Use when a learner or instructor asks for a report, summary, reflection, progress note, performance recap, activity metrics, instructor-shareable record of a MATLAB AI tutoring session, aggregate report across multiple MATLAB tutoring session reports, or instructor dashboard artifact with metric drilldowns. Supports optional start and end datetime arguments for multi-session report and dashboard ranges.

Generate correct MATLAB code using the Symbolic Math Toolbox. Use when the user asks for symbolic computations, analytical solutions, symbolic differentiation/integration, equation solving, or converting symbolic results to numeric MATLAB functions. Also use when converting differential equations to transfer functions or state-space form.

Use when tutoring a student in MATLAB programming, coaching beginners, explaining MATLAB concepts interactively, or running a conversational AI tutor session.

Build interactive web applications using HTML/JavaScript interfaces with MATLAB computational backends via the uihtml component. Use when creating HTML-based MATLAB apps, JavaScript MATLAB interfaces, web UIs with MATLAB, interactive MATLAB GUIs, or when user mentions uihtml, HTML, JavaScript, web apps, or web interfaces.

Generate beautiful, distinctive HTML/CSS/JS control panels for MATLAB uihtml components. 8 built-in styles (Clean, Material, Cosmic Dark, Neumorphic, Dashboard Light, Midnight Gradient, Minimal Mono, Warm Dark) plus custom aesthetics. Produces production-grade UI with sliders, buttons, toggles, and panels. Use when building visually polished MATLAB app UIs with uihtml.

Use this skill for the architecture phases of an MBSE workflow in MATLAB, when writing idempotent buildXxx.m scripts that produce a three-layer RFLPV architecture (Functional, Logical, Physical) with interface dictionaries, stereotype profiles, allocation sets, and requirements Implement links. Trigger for defining stereotype properties, functional-to-logical / logical-to-physical allocation, mapping requirements to components via slreq Implement links, or running quantitative roll-up analysis on the architecture. Do NOT trigger for ad-hoc structural edits to an already-built System Composer model (adding one component, rewiring a port) — use `building-simulink-models` with `model_edit` for that. Works alongside the `system-composer` skill for detailed SC API patterns.