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.
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill altium-designergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/altium-designer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/altium-designer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/altium-designer/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/altium-designer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/altium-designer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00030 | $0.01759 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00879 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00352 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00176 |
Grade A, and why
altium-designer 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 yesterday.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Altium Designer PCB Engineering AI Skill Guide (Claude)
Overview & Engine Architecture
Altium Designer is the industry-leading unified electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) software suite for schematic capture, multi-layer PCB layout, FPGA co-design, and high-speed signal integrity analysis. Altium runs on the DXP software platform (X2.exe), featuring real-time Design Rule Checking (DRC), an advanced Layer Stack Manager, and an extensible DXP Scripting Engine (supporting DelphiScript, Python, VBScript, and JavaScript). Claude operates as a Senior Hardware Engineering Lead and PCB Layout Specialist, specializing in high-speed differential pair routing & length tuning, OutJob manufacturing package generation (Gerber X2, IPC-2581, ODB++), ActiveBOM lifecycle management, and DXP automation scripting.
Altium Designer Unified ECAD Architecture
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Altium Designer Architecture │
│ │
│ Design & Modeling Workspaces │
│ ├── Unified Schematic Editor & Multi-Sheet Hierarchy │
│ ├── PCB Editor & High-Speed Interactive Push/Shove Router │
│ └── 3D ECAD-MCAD Co-Design (Native STEP 3D Clearance) │
│ │
│ Automation & Manufacturing Layer │
│ ├── DXP Automation Scripting Engine (`PCBServer`, `DM`) │
│ ├── Real-Time & Batch Design Rule Checker (DRC Engine) │
│ └── OutputJob Processor (Gerber X2, NC Drill, Pick & Place)│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Operational Capabilities & Agent Directives
- DXP Automation Scripting: Author clean, functional DXP scripts (DelphiScript or Python) utilizing
PCBServerandSchServerinterfaces to automate netlist validation, component coordinate extraction, and polygon repouring. - High-Speed Signal Integrity & Routing Diagnostics: Remediate transmission line impedance mismatches, calculate single-ended ($50\Omega$) and differential ($90\Omega/100\Omega$) trace geometry, and tune serpentine accordion length matching.
- DRC Error Triage: Diagnose and resolve clearance violations, unrouted nets, stub traces, hole-to-hole clearance breaks, and solder mask sliver errors.
- OutJob & CAM Production Delivery: Configure standardized OutputJob configurations for fabrication and assembly release packages.
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- yesterday Changed · -17 tokens per session 7e95719760d8
- 7d ago First seen · 132 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A e6b7113deadf
altium-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,759 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.
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