README

README is a command for Claude Code from rjwalters/kicad-tools. It costs 0 tokens per session (787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation command for the kicad-tools agent skills installed in a repository. KiCad is software for designing circuit boards, and the kct namespace is the naming area used for these tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn how to call an installed kct skill, understand its purpose and model, or check where kicad-tools agent files belong.
Why use it?
It explains which kct skills exist and the repository conventions for invoking and organizing them.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rjwalters/kicad-tools/readme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjwalters/kicad-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

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 README

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/rjwalters/kicad-tools/readme.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/rjwalters/kicad-tools/readme)
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 787 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00787
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00079

Measured 6d ago against content hash 24f5959817b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

README 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 6d 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.

.claude/commands/kct/README.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kct slash-command namespace

This directory holds kicad-tools-native agent skills, invoked as /kct:<name>.

Why a separate namespace?

The .claude/commands/loom/ tree (and .loom/roles/) is installed into this repo from rjwalters/loom and belongs to the loom orchestration framework — kicad-tools should not add its own skills there. The kct namespace is deliberately harness-agnostic: it hosts kicad-tools' own agent tools so they live alongside any installable harness framework (loom, rjwalters/anvil, or a future orchestrator) without colliding with vendored content.

Convention: kicad-tools-native agent tools go under .claude/commands/kct/ and are invoked as /kct:<name>. Do not place them under .claude/commands/loom/ or .loom/roles/.

Available skills

Command Purpose Model
/kct:help [<command>] Explain the installed /kct:* skills — what each does, how to invoke it, and the load-bearing conventions — by reading the files actually vendored in this repo. Introspective and strictly read-only; no board argument. sonnet
/kct:ee-review <issue-or-board> Produce an EE decision document (escalating intervention ladder + binding constraints, cited and confidence-graded) for an analog/placement-blocked board. Advisory only — decisions, not copper. opus
/kct:manufacturing-readiness <board-path> Sign off a routed board for fabrication: kct check + the mandatory kicad-cli pcb drc --refill-zones cross-gate + a kct export bundle at the board's fab tier. Refuses sign-off if any gate is skipped. sonnet
/kct:hv-isolation-loop <board-path> Drive the HV-isolation / creepage design loop on a mains/high-voltage board: voltage-domain capture → per-pair creepage targets → HV plane-voids (zones hv-keepout) → HV-aware placement (optimize-placement --voltage-map) → route/reinforce → creepage + Kelvin + --refill-zones gates → EE-review + sign-off handoff. Orchestration only; the human EE authors the voltage map and ratifies before fab. sonnet
/kct:board-recipe-scaffold <board-path> Scaffold a new consumer board recipe (generate_design.py) following the artifact-first convention: project → schematic+ERC → PCB → route+pour → check → LVS hard gate → export, with circuit-specific parts left as fill-in points. sonnet
/kct:layout-journal <board-path> Keep a LAYOUT_NOTES.md journal for a hand-routing session so the reasoning behind manual copper (decisions, rip-ups, referee results, blockers) survives reboots and hand-offs. sonnet
/kct:tapeout <board-path> [--assembly|--pcb-only] Produce a complete, fab-ready export bundle — or refuse loudly. Superset of /kct:manufacturing-readiness: the three sign-off pre-gates plus a BOM part-number-resolution gate, schematic + assembly-view PDFs, a human README, and a manifest checksumming the entire bundle. "tapeout returned 0" means "upload this directory as-is." sonnet

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 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. 6d ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 24f5959817b2

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README is a command published in the GitHub repository rjwalters/kicad-tools (55 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 787 tokens. 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.