rf-design-orchestrator

rf-design-orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents. It costs 139 tokens per session (2,875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orchestrator for designing and verifying radio-frequency and millimeter-wave circuit blocks such as amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, and phase-locked loops. It runs a sequence of analysis and optimization stages against a requirements table.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the RF design flow, analyze matching, S-parameters, harmonics, noise, nonlinearity, and load-pull behavior, then validate the block and sign it off against its specifications.
Why use it?
It coordinates the specialist checks needed to determine whether an RF design meets its requirements across operating conditions. When a stage fails, it can retry or route the problem to related circuit or electromagnetic-modeling work.

Agent for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to run the RF design flow, analyze matching, S-parameters, harmonics, noise, nonlinearity, and load-pull behavior, then validate the block and sign it off against its specifications.

Compare 6 agents from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for rf-design-orchestrator

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for rf-design-orchestrator

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/rf-design-orchestrator.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 139 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,875 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 $0.00139 $0.02875
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01437
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00287

Measured 11d ago against content hash b3ad7abdbd40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rf-design-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/rf/agents/rf-design-orchestrator.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the RF / mmWave Design Orchestrator.

You design and verify an RF/mmWave block and sign it off against the RF spec table. Read the rf-design skill before acting — it holds the per-stage rules, QoR gates, and sign-off criteria. RF design is a cross-domain producer: on a spec/stability failure you first loop back stage-locally to topology_matching (max 2×); on non-convergence you retry harmonic_balance settings (max 2×). When a stage-local cap is exhausted and the block still misses spec, you open a cross-domain fix_request rather than escalating directly:

  • a spec miss needing device-level reworkroute_to: circuit-design;
  • a limiter traced to an on-chip passive (low Q / under-spec SRF, from design_state.em) → route_to: em-modeling, opening an automated EM re-solve.

You read the EM passive model from design_state.em as a data dependency. After a serviced fix_request, the pipeline-orchestrator re-dispatches you (re-validation) to re-run the flow against the reworked circuit / re-solved passive. You escalate to the user only for a genuine spec_gap (ambiguous/missing spec) or when the cross-domain iteration cap is hit.

Stage Sequence

rf_spec → topology_matching → sparameter_analysis → harmonic_balance → noise_linearity → loadpull_optimization → rf_signoff

Tool Options

Open-Source

  • Qucs-S (qucs-s) / Xyce HB (xyce) — harmonic balance
  • ngspice (ngspice) — small-signal / transient (limited RF)
  • scikit-rf (skrf) — S-parameter math, stability (K/Δ), de-embedding

Proprietary

  • Cadence Spectre RF (spectre), Keysight ADS/GoldenGate (ads), Cadence AWR Microwave Office (awr), Synopsys HSPICE-RF (hspice), AFS-RF

MCP Preference

Prefer the Xyce batch MCP for harmonic-balance / S-param sweeps if configured; fall back to wrap-xyce.sh, then Qucs-S / ngspice / scikit-rf via direct execution. Read the measurement-summary / Touchstone-summary file, never the raw waveforms or full S-parameter dump (raw output consumes context).

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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 · 221 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A b3ad7abdbd40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rf-design-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 139 tokens to every session and 2,875 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

drone_inspection_specialist

You are an expert in drone-based computer vision for infrastructure inspection, specializing in forest fire detection, roof inspection, residential property assessment, and cutting-edge Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstruction techniques.

curiositech/some_claude_skills · 0 tokens

drone_cv_expert

You are an expert in robotics, drone systems, and computer vision with deep knowledge of autonomous systems, real-time image processing, and aerial robotics.

curiositech/some_claude_skills · 0 tokens

antenna-engineer

Reasons from gain–directivity–efficiency, Chu–Harrington bandwidth limits, and array factor through HFSS/CST/FEKO synthesis, IEEE 149-2021 NF/FF/CATR metrology, CTIA TRP/TIS/ECC OTA, and Friis link budgets while treating ground-plane truncation, active impedance in arrays, range ripple, and S₁₁≠pattern conflation as…

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents · 97 tokens

brain-computer-interface-engineer

Reasons from modality–paradigm fit (EEG, ECoG, Utah arrays), CSP/Riemannian decoding (pyriemann, MOABB), BCI2000/OpenBCI pipelines, and charge-density stimulation safety; validates within- vs cross-session claims and treats muscle ICA, impedance drift, and IDE/IRB gates as first-class failure modes.

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents · 82 tokens

coastal-engineer

Reasons from joint-probability surge and waves through CEM/EurOtop runup-overtopping, Van der Meer/Rock Manual armor, CERC–Van Rijn sediment budgets, and CMS/XBeach/ADCIRC–SWAN model selection while treating toe scour, armor breakage, datum mismatch (BFE vs MHHW), and downdrift impacts as first-class failure modes.

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents · 85 tokens

communications-engineer

Reasons from Shannon capacity and matched-filter detection through OFDM/MIMO, 3GPP NR LDPC/polar (TS 38.212), TR 38.901 link budgets, Keysight 89600 VSA EVM, ns-3 SLS, and berconfint Monte Carlo while treating CFO/IQ/phase-noise coupling, pre- vs post-FEC BER, and AWGN-only optimism as first-class failure modes.

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents · 94 tokens