# Nominal Docs For Developers & Agents

## [Quickstarts](https://dev.nominal.io/index.md "Back to top")

[Connect to Nominal with a Client

```
from nominal.core import NominalClient
client = NominalClient.from_profile("default")
dataset = client.create_dataset("My dataset")
```](https://dev.nominal.io/quickstart.md)
[Talk to Nominal with your agent

```
> Find last week's runs on engine-3 and plot  chamber pressure in my workbook.⏺ nominal - search_resources (MCP)  ⎿  4 runs on engine-3
```](https://dev.nominal.io/quickstart/mcp.md)
[Acquire instrument data with Nominal Instro

```
daq = InstroDAQ("bench", NIDAQDriver("Dev1"))
daq.configure_voltage_input("Dev1/ai0")
volts = daq.read_analog()
```](https://dev.nominal.io/instro.md)

## [Docs by Connector](https://dev.nominal.io/index.md "Back to top")

Python

SQL

NI / LabVIEW

MathWorks / MATLAB

REST/GRPC

Other tools

**Python** — choose a library
← All

[Nominal Python Client
Interface with Nominal programmatically](https://dev.nominal.io/python.md)
[instro
Interface with hardware](https://dev.nominal.io/instro.md)
[Demos
Notebooks that run end to end against Nominal](https://dev.nominal.io/demos.md)

**SQL** — choose a guide
← All

[SQL
Query Nominal with SQL](https://dev.nominal.io/sql-guides.md)

**NI / LabVIEW** — choose an integration
← All

[NI LabVIEW
Stream data from LabVIEW VIs](https://dev.nominal.io/ni-labview.md)
[NI TestStand
TestStand step library and report model plugin](https://dev.nominal.io/ni-teststand.md)
[NI VeriStand
Custom device that streams to Nominal](https://dev.nominal.io/ni-veristand.md)
[NI FlexLogger
Streaming and TDMS upload plugin for FlexLogger](https://dev.nominal.io/ni-flexlogger.md)

**MathWorks / MATLAB** — choose a library
← All

[MATLAB client
Work with Nominal data from MATLAB](https://dev.nominal.io/matlab.md)
[Simulink
Stream data from a Simulink model](https://dev.nominal.io/simulink.md)

**REST/GRPC** — choose a reference or a client library
← All

[REST/gRPC API](https://dev.nominal.io/api.md)
[Python](https://pypi.org/project/nominal-api/)
[Rust](https://crates.io/crates/nominal-api)
[Go](https://github.com/nominal-io/nominal-api-go)

**Other tools** — choose a tool
← All

[nomctl CLI
Nominal's command-line tool](https://dev.nominal.io/nomctl.md)
[Grafana plugin
Show Nominal data in Grafana dashboards](https://dev.nominal.io/grafana.md)
[Direct File Ingestion
Upload CSV, MCAP, TDMS and other files](https://dev.nominal.io/file-ingestion.md)

## [The Nominal Stack](https://dev.nominal.io/index.md "Back to top")