kicad-copilot-mcp

kicad-copilot-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from biosshot/kicad-copilot. It costs 30 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for using KiCad Copilot with KiCad, an electronics design program for schematics and circuit boards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for KiCad schematic, PCB placement, routing, checks, previews, and exports when the related tools are available.
Why use it?
It provides task-specific guidance for working with circuit diagrams and board layouts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/biosshot/kicad-copilot/docs
Any agent
npx skills add biosshot/kicad-copilot --skill docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biosshot/kicad-copilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 239 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 $0.00030 $0.00239
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 4d ago against content hash 671b0632fd52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kicad-copilot-mcp 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (pcb-layout/dsl.ts, pcb-layout/examples/ELRS/ELRS.js, pcb-layout/examples/ESpower/ESpower.js, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

docs/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

KiCad Copilot MCP

Use this skill when KiCad Copilot MCP tools are available.

The local files in this directory are the documentation source. Read only the docs needed for the task.

References

  • kicad-cli.md: preferred CLI workflow for checks, previews, exports, and other native operations.
  • circuit-maker/instructions.md: circuit creation and schematic modification rules.
  • schematic/project-and-sheets.md: project paths and hierarchical sheets.
  • schematic/checkpoints.md: checkpoint behavior and recovery.
  • pcb-layout/instructions.md: PCB placement rules and approval flow.
  • pcb-layout/mcp-workflow.md: PCB synchronization and layout tool sequence.
  • pcb-layout/dsl.ts: exact JavaScript placement DSL.
  • pcb-routing/instructions.md: routing workflow and KRT setup.
  • pcb-routing/dsl.d.ts: exact JavaScript routing DSL declarations.
  • analysis.md: compact schematic and PCB analysis workflow and result contract.
Files

What ships with it

41 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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 24 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 671b0632fd52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kicad-copilot-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository biosshot/kicad-copilot (6 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 239 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 2026-08-31.

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