Advanced topics

This section covers specific questions and situations that fall outside the main workflow covered by The methodology and Develop with Modeler.

  • Why not just an LLM coding assistant? — why use Modeler instead of steering a general-purpose LLM coding assistant through the modeling work yourself.

  • Converting existing code — bringing an existing model (AMPL, PuLP, or an older gurobipy script) into Modeler to recover its specification and continue from there.

  • Diagnosed with Explainer — a worked walkthrough of Explainer’s infeasibility diagnosis, feasibility repair, and sensitivity analysis on an infeasible model.

  • Using the MCP server — calling Modeler as a tool from an MCP-compatible LLM coding assistant, such as Claude Code, Gemini, or ChatGPT.