dynare-copilot

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A Claude Code skill that takes your macroeconomic intuition — "I want a New Keynesian model with a financial accelerator," "replicate Smets-Wouters 2007" — and turns it into a working, validated Dynare .mod file with steady state solved and IRFs in hand.

Its core job is to enforce the workflow experienced modelers follow anyway: derive first, translate second, validate incrementally — so timing errors, naming conflicts, and steady-state algebra mistakes get caught before they become wrong results. Concretely, it gives you:

• A vetted starting point, never a blank page — a built-in dual reference library (149 MMB replication models for economic structure + 89 Pfeifer examples for Dynare syntax) means every model starts from working code.
• A tool that sharpens with use — every model you finish is archived and consulted on future tasks; every bug you hit is logged with its fix, so the same trap is never debugged twice.
• Faithful replication, never a guessed model — when a paper hands part of its model off to another paper ("the financial block is identical to Gertler-Karadi 2011"), it stops and asks you for that source instead of silently reconstructing the missing block from memory.
• Paper-ready output — every IRF is delivered as a publication-quality vector figure, ready to drop into your manuscript.

No timing pitfalls. No silent errors. No blank page.

Enjoy the world of macroeconomics.

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Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• Update
• Uninstall
• Use with OpenAI Codex
• Quick Start
• Supported Tasks
• How It Works
• Output Structure
• Repository Structure
• Advanced
• Join the Project
• Acknowledgements
• License

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Requirements

What you want to do	What you need
Let it write / edit / inspect .mod files	A coding agent: Claude Code or OpenAI Codex
Run the generated .mod files yourself	Also install Dynare 7.1 + MATLAB or Octave
Let it run automatically and iterate on errors	Also install a MATLAB MCP server in VSCode

You can still use it without MATLAB: it can write models and inspect errors, but it will not run Dynare for you.

Providing the specific paper can greatly reduce response time and token usage.

🔌 New to MCP? If you've never connected MATLAB (or Stata) to Claude Code before, follow the step-by-step beginner's guide: Connecting MATLAB / Stata to Claude Code (MCP Setup Guide). It assumes zero prior setup and covers installing Claude Code, wiring up the MATLAB MCP that powers the automatic run-debug loop above, and the Stata MCP.

Installation (about 1 minute)