MATLAB Copilot is MathWorks' AI assistant in the MATLAB desktop. It writes, edits and explains MATLAB code and has been available since R2025a; from R2026b it is an add-on on the same licence as MATLAB. MathWorks added Simulink Copilot and Polyspace Copilot in R2026a. None of MathWorks' Copilot pages mentions MCP: MathWorks offers MCP separately, through its MATLAB MCP server for outside agents.
Status as MathWorks states it: status not stated in MATLAB, Simulink (Simulink Copilot) and Polyspace (Polyspace Copilot). Also called Simulink Copilot and Polyspace Copilot.
Labels are copied from MathWorks's own pages. "Not stated" means we found no label for that product on the vendor's pages.
Chat, code generation and editing, code explanation and test generation in the MATLAB desktop. Introduced in R2025a.
Explains models and errors, gives design guidance and automates set tasks such as modelling standards checks, tests and code generation. Listed among R2026a's new products.
Explains Polyspace findings and suggests code fixes inside the Polyspace as You Code plugin for Visual Studio Code.
What it can do differs by product and release; check MathWorks's page for your product.
The vendor also offers a separate MCP server. MathWorks' Copilot pages don't mention MCP. For MCP, MathWorks offers a MATLAB MCP server that lets outside agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex and Amp write, run and test MATLAB code in a live session, plus a MATLAB Agentic Toolkit of skills. MathWorks doesn't say whether the Copilots use it. Source
MathWorks's own MCP server: starts or connects to MATLAB on your machine, runs and tests code and checks it with the Code Analyzer.
MathWorks's skill groups for MATLAB and its toolboxes, installed together with the MATLAB MCP Server and wired into your agent.
MathWorks's Simulink tools and Model-Based Design skills, added to the MATLAB MCP Server so an agent can read, edit and test models.
Publishes your own MATLAB functions as MCP tools on MATLAB Production Server, so agents call deployed code over HTTP.
MATLAB Copilot works inside MathWorks's own products, with the abilities MathWorks builds into it. An MCP server takes the other route: it lets a general AI assistant that you choose, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, call the software's functions, and each project decides which functions to expose.
For MATLAB and Simulink, Tresca lists 9 MCP servers and 3 agent skills; between them, their documentation covers Amp, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot CLI and other clients. See each tool page: MATLAB, Simulink.
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From R2026b, MATLAB Copilot is an add-on product on the same licence as MATLAB. MathWorks gives no prices on its product page. Source
AI-generated models, drawings and results must be checked by a qualified engineer before use.
Checked 10 Nov 2026. Only MathWorks's own pages count as sources here.
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