Software Development Skills

Use 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.

Deploy AI models to embedded hardware using MathWorks tools (MATLAB, Simulink, Embedded Coder). Covers two workflow patterns: (1) MathWorks-native or 3P-imported models rebuilt as dlnetwork for lean hardware (Cortex-M, DSP), (2) direct C/C++ code generation from PyTorch and LiteRT models for high-performance hardware (Cortex-A, x86, GPU). Trigger when: user wants to deploy AI to embedded targets; generate C/CUDA from neural networks; compress AI models for MCU/DSP; 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, importNetworkFromPyTorch, dlquantizer, exportNetworkToSimulink, or Embedded Coder with AI models.

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 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.

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.

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 modeledit for that. Works alongside the system-composer skill for detailed SC API patterns.

Use this skill for guided MBSE work in MATLAB — starting a new project, resuming work mid-workflow on an existing project, or answering orientation questions about how the MBSE skills fit together. Trigger when the user says they want to create, start, or set up a new MBSE project; work on a model-based systems engineering / RFLPV project; or asks which skill covers which phase. Walks through phases one at a time — propose → approve → generate → run → confirm. Use proactively whenever someone mentions starting or continuing an MBSE project.

Use this skill for all requirements-related work in a MATLAB MBSE project using the Requirements Toolbox (slreq). Covers creating and populating requirement sets, derivation links, test case requirements, verification coverage, reading and tracing links across requirement sets and models, checking link health, allocating requirements to components (Implement links), and building traceability reports. Trigger when the user asks about slreq API, slreqx files, slmx link files, outLinks/inLinks, traceability matrices, coverage analysis, broken links, or mapping requirements to architecture components. Use proactively for any requirements or traceability task.

Use when authoring reusable, idempotent MATLAB scripts that build System Composer architecture models via the architecture-modeling API — systemcomposer.createModel, addComponent, addPort, setInterface, connect(srcPort, dstPort), interface dictionaries (.sldd) with addInterface/addElement, profiles/stereotypes with Profile.createProfile and addStereotype, or systemcomposer.allocation.createAllocationSet. Also trigger when debugging these APIs (connections that don't appear, interfaces that don't resolve, profile save errors, createAllocationSet signature-mismatch errors). Do NOT trigger for ad-hoc structural edits to an already-built model (adding one SubSystem, rewiring a port) — use building-simulink-models with modeledit for that.