Williamcloudqi Matlab MCP Server

🚀 MATLAB MCP Server

A powerful MCP server that combines MATLAB with artificial intelligence, enabling you to execute MATLAB code, generate MATLAB scripts from natural language descriptions, and directly access MATLAB documentation through your AI assistant.

🚀 Quick Start

The MATLAB MCP Server is a remarkable tool that seamlessly integrates MATLAB with AI. It allows users to perform a variety of MATLAB - related tasks efficiently.

✨ Features

Resources

• Access MATLAB documentation via the matlab://documentation/getting-started URI.
• Provide a getting - started guide with examples and usage instructions.

Tools

• execute_matlab_code - Execute MATLAB code and obtain results.
  • Run any MATLAB command or script.
  • Optionally, save the script for future reference.
  • View the output directly in the conversation.
• generate_matlab_code - Generate MATLAB code based on natural language.
  • Describe your desired goal using plain language.
  • Obtain executable MATLAB code in the response.
  • Optionally, save the automatically generated script.

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

• MATLAB installed on the system.
• Node.js (v14 or higher).

Steps

1. Install the Package

npm install -g matlab-mcp-server

Or clone the repository and build it yourself:

git clone https://github.com/username/matlab-mcp-server.git
cd matlab-mcp-server
npm install
npm run build

2. Configure the Client to Use the Server

To use it with the client, add the server configuration:

• On MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "matlab-server": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/matlab-server/build/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "MATLAB_PATH": "/path/to/matlab/executable"
      },
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

Replace /path/to/matlab/executable with the path to your MATLAB executable:

• Windows: Usually C:\\Program Files\\MATLAB\\R2023b\\bin\\matlab.exe
• macOS: Usually /Applications/MATLAB_R2023b.app/bin/matlab
• Linux: Usually /usr/local/MATLAB/R2023b/bin/matlab

Debugging

Since the MCP server communicates via stdio, debugging can be challenging. We recommend using MCP Inspector, a tool that can be used as a package script:

npm run inspector

The Inspector will provide a URL to access the debugging tools. Open it in your browser.

🔧 Technical Details

Development

• Install dependencies:

npm install

• Build the server:

npm run build

• Development with auto - rebuild:

npm run watch