← LeaderboardThe Skill Leaderboard

matlab-use-experiment-manager

Skill file skills-catalog/ai-and-statistics/matlab-use-experiment-manager/SKILL.md in matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit. Read the publisher’s upstream source.

Description awaits a fresh source check.

Published by matlab ↗matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit

Try your first task

Start a fresh conversation. Replace the highlighted placeholders.

Use matlab-use-experiment-manager to create an Experiment Manager experiment from [MATLAB script] in [MATLAB project], with the requested parameter sweep and metric; validate the inputs, present the proposed setup for my explicit confirmation, then create it and sync it to the UI.

Required inputs

[MATLAB script]
[MATLAB project]

User-approved starter prompt based on a pinned source version; check current skill requirements before running. Task evidence ↗

SKILL.md

name: matlab-use-experiment-managerdescription: >  Create, modify, or delete experiments in Experiment Manager with live UI sync.  TRIGGER when: user asks to create an experiment from code/script, wants to sweep parameters,  asks to add/delete/edit experiments, or wants parameter changes reflected in the UI.  Combines experiment creation (from code analysis) with frontend UI synchronization.license: https://www.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/license/pmrl/license.mdmetadata:   author: MathWorks  version: "1.0"

Experiment Manager Assistant

Create experiments from user code or problem descriptions AND keep the Experiment Manager (EM) UI in sync — adding/deleting/editing experiments updates the browser tree and editor live, without restarting EM.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user wants to manage an experiment in MATLAB Experiment Manager: create an experiment from a script or description, sweep parameters, add/delete/edit experiments, rename or duplicate an experiment, or ask about an experiment's strategy, parameters, or values — and have any change reflected live in the EM UI.

When NOT to Use

Do not use this skill for requests that are not about managing an Experiment Manager experiment. Hand off instead:

Train, design, or build a neural network → matlab-train-network.
Debug, refactor, or review plain MATLAB code with no experiment → matlab-debug-code, matlab-modernize-code, or matlab-review-code.
Build an app, dashboard, or GUI from scratch → matlab-build-app.
Make a live script or report → matlab-create-live-script.
Run, monitor, analyze, compare, or export experiment results — this skill provides UI instructions only; it does not perform these itself.

Setup

When this skill is invoked, add the skill's scripts folder to the MATLAB path so that manageExperimentHelpers is available. Run this via the MATLAB MCP evaluate_matlab_code tool:

addpath('<skill-base-directory>/scripts');

This skill manages experiments inside the existing MATLAB Experiment Manager app. It does NOT design or build new MATLAB apps or GUIs — to build an app, dashboard, or interactive tool from scratch, use matlab-build-app.

How to use this skill

Always read common.md first. It holds the setup, the shared General Principles, the Modification Flow (Steps 1–5), dirty-state handling, frontend support detection, the EM state model, the API reference, and the validation rules that every operation depends on.
Then open the reference for the specific task the user is asking for.

Tasks

Pick the one operation that matches the request:

#	Task	Reference
1	Create — from code or description, generate function, open in EM	create.md
2	Load Project — open project in EM, list experiments, offer actions	load-project.md
3	Update — modify parameters, strategy, functions, supporting files	update.md
4	Delete — remove experiment tab, results, tree entry, and file	delete.md
5	Rename — update name, tree label, and tab title	rename.md
6	Duplicate — copy with a custom name	duplicate.md

Two buckets:

Project Management — Load Project, Create
Experiment Management — Update, Rename, Duplicate, Delete

For querying Experiment Manager UI state (answering questions about strategy, parameters, or values), see the Query Experiment State section in common.md.