MATLAB version requirement for Agentic Toolkit

[dinesh-nandlal-amf1]

The repo readme states that this is compatible with MATLAB R2021a onward. I'm using R2022b and getting this error when running shareMATLABSession

MCP server requires MATLAB R2023a or later.
Error in mcpcoreserver.internal.connector.DefaultConnectorAdaptor/getConnectionDetails (line 29)
                "apiKey", obj.APIKeyManager.getAPIKey(), ...
Error in mcpcoreserver.internal.shareMATLABSession (line 27)
    sessionDetails = options.ConnectorAdaptor.getConnectionDetails();
Error in shareMATLABSession (line 8)
    mcpcoreserver.internal.shareMATLABSession(); 

[michellehirsch]

Sorry about this! The error message isn't quite right. The MATLAB MCP Server is supported back to R2021a. The shareMATLABSession function/the ability to connect to an existing session, is only supported back to R2023a. I'll update the installer so that it doesn't prompt users of R2022b and older to run shareMATLABSession and will ask the MATLAB MCP Server team to update the error message to be more precise.

[dinesh-nandlal-amf1]

Thanks so much for clarifying @michellehirsch! BTW I am loving this toolkit, kudos to the team developing it.

[michellehirsch]

Great to hear! Can you tell us a bit more about what you are doing with it? We'd love to learn what it's being used for.

[dinesh-nandlal-amf1]

Yeah absolutely. I'm part of a small group of simulation and modelling engineers, and we use MATLAB to write simulation algorithm code to wrap our models (developed in other tools), and also for build orchestration. MATLAB isn't really the best platform for the latter use case, but the codebase was developed at a time where universities were teaching MATLAB to engineers, so we wanted to democratise development of the build orchestration layer by making it accessible to engineers. I've been looking at options for generative AI in our MATLAB workflow, and native support is only on a later version of MATLAB with MATLAB Copilot, which I guess has a cost associated. To stay on R2022b and use the Github Copilot that I got my team, I stumbled across this and decided to give it a try. Still early days as I've only just installed it, but our starting use case is simply to find inefficient implementation for improve runtime speed

[michellehirsch]

Thanks so much, it's nice to see these details.

And for the record, universities still teach MATLAB to engineers :). Of course it's not the only tool taught to engineers, but there are more MATLAB users at universities than ever before.

[dinesh-nandlal-amf1]

That's good to know. In the last few years, at least here in the UK, its becoming challenging to hire engineering grads that have experience with MATLAB/Simulink, its almost exclusively Python now.