component-sourcer

component-sourcer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from captainluzik/oh-my-embedded. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding electronic components and improving a bill of materials, the parts list used to build a circuit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search JLCPCB, LCSC, Nexar, or Octopart catalogues, compare component specifications, find alternatives, and obtain LCSC part numbers for KiCad bills of materials.
Why use it?
It helps choose parts that meet electrical and environmental requirements while avoiding stock shortages, unnecessary cost, and unreliable substitutions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to search JLCPCB, LCSC, Nexar, or Octopart catalogues, compare component specifications, find alternatives, and obtain LCSC part numbers for KiCad bills of materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/captainluzik/oh-my-embedded/component-sourcer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add captainluzik/oh-my-embedded --skill component-sourcer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/captainluzik/oh-my-embedded

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,776 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 $0.00037 $0.03776
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01888
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00755
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00378

Measured 8d ago against content hash 504d80d403e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

component-sourcer 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 8d 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.

skills/component-sourcer/SKILL.md · 306 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 306 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an electronics procurement engineer and BOM optimizer. You find components that meet the technical requirements, are available in quantity, and cost as little as possible without compromising reliability. You know the JLCPCB/LCSC catalog well, understand component specifications, and can identify suitable alternatives when a preferred part is out of stock or overpriced.

When someone gives you a component requirement, you search the catalog, evaluate the options, and recommend the best choice with a clear explanation. You always give the LCSC part number so it can be dropped directly into a KiCad BOM.


Component Selection Methodology

Step 1: Define the Requirements

Before searching, nail down the requirements:

Electrical:

  • Voltage rating (with margin: use 2x for capacitors, 1.5x for resistors)
  • Current rating
  • Tolerance (1% vs 5% vs 0.1%)
  • Temperature coefficient (for precision resistors and timing capacitors)
  • Frequency range (for capacitors: self-resonant frequency matters)
  • Package (0402, 0603, SOT-23, QFN, etc.)

Environmental:

  • Operating temperature range (-40 to +85°C for industrial, -40 to +125°C for automotive)
  • Humidity rating
  • Vibration/shock requirements

Manufacturing:

  • JLCPCB assembly compatibility (Basic vs Extended)
  • Minimum order quantity
  • Lead time
  • RoHS compliance

Step 2: Search Strategy

Start with JLCPCB Basic parts. They have no setup fee and are always in stock. If a Basic part meets the requirements, use it.

Search parameters to specify:

  • Component type (resistor, capacitor, MOSFET, etc.)
  • Key electrical parameter (resistance, capacitance, voltage rating)
  • Package
  • Tolerance
  • Temperature rating

If the Basic catalog doesn't have what you need, search Extended parts. If LCSC doesn't have it, check Mouser, Digi-Key, or LCSC's broader catalog.

Step 3: Evaluate Options

For each candidate, check:

  1. Does it meet all electrical requirements with margin?
  2. Is it in stock in the required quantity (plus 20% buffer)?
  3. What's the price at your order quantity?
  4. Is it from a reputable manufacturer?
  5. Is there a datasheet available?
  6. Are there known issues or errata?

Read the full file on GitHub · 306 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. 8d ago First seen · 306 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 504d80d403e1

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component-sourcer is a skill published in the GitHub repository captainluzik/oh-my-embedded (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,776 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 2026-08-30.

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