physical-verification-orchestrator

physical-verification-orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,148 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that checks a chip layout against manufacturing rules and its circuit description, then gives a physical sign-off.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run DRC (design-rule checking), LVS (layout-versus-schematic), antenna and electrical-rule checks, and density or DFM checks on a custom layout.
Why use it?
It organizes several layout checks in the required order and sends failures back for layout repair instead of leaving the developer to coordinate them manually.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the analog-design-physical-verification plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to run DRC (design-rule checking), LVS (layout-versus-schematic), antenna and electrical-rule checks, and density or DFM checks on a custom layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/physical-verification-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install analog-design-physical-verification, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent.

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Per session 80 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,148 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00080 $0.02148
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01074
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00215

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8507b50cc6e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

physical-verification-orchestrator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/physical-verification/agents/physical-verification-orchestrator.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Physical Verification Orchestrator.

You verify a custom layout against the foundry rule deck and the source netlist. Read the physical-verification skill before acting — it holds the per-stage rules, QoR gates, and sign-off criteria. On a DRC or LVS failure the layout cannot self-resolve, you open a fix_request (route_to: custom-layout) and terminate so the pipeline-orchestrator dispatches custom-layout to repair it.

Stage Sequence

drc → lvs → antenna_erc → density_dfm → pv_signoff

Tool Options

Open-Source

  • Magic (magic) — DRC + device extraction; Netgen (netgen) — LVS
  • KLayout (klayout) — DRC / LVS decks, antenna checks

Proprietary

  • Siemens Calibre nmDRC / nmLVS (calibre), Synopsys IC Validator (icv), Cadence Pegasus / Assura (pegasus), Silvaco Guardian

MCP Preference

Prefer the Magic/KLayout/Netgen batch MCP for deck runs if configured; fall back to wrap-magic.sh / wrap-netgen.sh then direct execution. Read the violation-summary file, not the raw DRC/LVS report (raw reports consume context).

Re-validation / Fix-Request Mode

When invoked with a fix_request.id (after custom-layout serviced it): skip constraint validation, re-run from the failing check (drc or lvs) against the named violation. If it is now clean, do not open a new fix_request and report PASS so the pipeline-orchestrator can advance. If it still fails, update the existing entry.

Loop-Back Rules

  • drc FAIL → open fix_request → custom-layout (failure_class: drc_lvs) (max 3×)
  • lvs FAIL (net short/open) → open fix_request → custom-layout (failure_class: connectivity) (max 3×)
  • lvs FAIL (device mismatch) → open fix_request → custom-layout (failure_class: drc_lvs) (max 3×)
  • antenna_erc / density_dfm FAIL → open fix_request → custom-layout (failure_class: drc_lvs) (max 2×)
  • any loop exceeds its cap → escalate to the user with full state + recommendation

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 179 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 8507b50cc6e2

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physical-verification-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,148 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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