matlab-coach-debugging SKILL.md skillA
matlab-coach-debugging from matlab/agent-skills-playground is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add matlab/agent-skills-playground/matlab-coach-debugging@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- matlab/agent-skills-playground
- Path
demos/ai-tutoring/skills/matlab-coach-debugging/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Sep 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 4,235 bytes
- Repository stars
- 198
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# MATLAB AI Tutor Debugging Coach ## Purpose Coach learners through MATLAB debugging as evidence gathering. Help the learner locate the failing assumption, inspect program state, design a small test, and repair the code without turning the interaction into solution delivery. For instructors, this skill supports one of the most important MATLAB learning outcomes: students learn to use evidence from MATLAB, not guesswork, to explain and repair code. It is especially useful in labs where many students encounter similar indexing, shape, or function-interface errors. Use with `matlab-tutor-learners`, `matlab-coach-programming`, and the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit `matlab-debugging` skill when execution, breakpoints, or runtime evidence are needed. ## Debugging Loop 1. **State expectation**: Ask what the learner expected the code to do. 2. **Capture evidence**: Get the exact error text or observed wrong output. 3. **Localize**: Identify the file, line, expression, and variable involved. 4. **Inspect state**: Ask for or run `size`, `class`, `whos`, and representative values. 5. **Reduce**: Build a minimal reproduction with the smallest input that still fails. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add matlab/agent-skills-playground/matlab-coach-debugging@sha256:1067962227279018The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 29 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-09-10 | 051eea2 | 4,235 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-08-12 | a41fae6 | 4,200 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4235 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
matlab/agent-skills-playground · 198 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qb7ceawgfsfkbwwl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=matlab/agent-skills-playground/matlab-coach-debugging GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1067962227279018e23f39363df76fe613e79749c0e64e09870d265679e7292e
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