librarian

librarian is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from diodeinc/pcb. It costs 75 tokens per session (4,855 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for creating reusable KiCad electronic-design parts, such as symbols, circuit-board footprints, 3D models, and datasheets, in a component registry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or fixing registry components, choosing parts from a family, checking symbols or footprints, or preparing datasheet-backed reference circuits.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported or incorrect part data from entering a shared library by requiring checks against manufacturer documentation and trusted sources.

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/diodeinc/pcb/librarian
Any agent
npx skills add diodeinc/pcb --skill librarian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/diodeinc/pcb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 librarian

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,855 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00075 $0.04855
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02427
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00971
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00485

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8e2f2a5f439f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

librarian scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fL "$(jq -er '.cse.symbol_url' "$assets_json")" \
skills/librarian/SKILL.md · 324 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Librarian

Create sourceable, evidence-backed registry packages that board designers can search, trust, and instantiate.

Use this for new registry components, package fixes, family selectors, symbol/footprint cleanup, datasheet-backed reference circuitry, and requests produced by registry search during board work.

If you are already operating inside a registry checkout or remote librarian session, continue authoring in that registry unless the user explicitly asks you to dispatch another librarian. Remote librarian dispatch is for agents working outside the registry, such as board or spec work that discovers missing reusable content.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent datasheet facts, pin mappings, footprints, passive values, limits, sourceability, or application topology. Find evidence or ask.
  • Do not build reusable circuitry on untrusted symbols, footprints, or pin maps. Curate artifacts against the manufacturer datasheet first.
  • Do not manually create scratch footprints or synthetic 3D models without explicit user confirmation. “Add a footprint/model” means find, verify, and embed trusted artifacts first. When no provider or library footprint exists for the part, generate one from the manufacturer datasheet with the kicad-footprint skill; if the datasheet cannot establish the geometry, stop and ask.
  • Do not add new packages under reference/; that tree is deprecated. A component's reference design belongs inside the component package. Prefer one .zen file per reference design: instantiate Component() directly in that file with its support circuitry, not through a separate primitive-only local wrapper. Use modules/ for higher-level reusable functional blocks and subsystem schematics that are not simply one component's reference design.
  • Treat registry packages as public integration contracts. If existing consumers must change Zener, layout, or assumptions to adopt the new version, it is breaking; obvious examples include io()/config()/entrypoint changes and substantial layout changes. Note the migration and mark the commit accordingly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 324 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. 4d ago First seen · 324 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 8e2f2a5f439f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

librarian is a skill published in the GitHub repository diodeinc/pcb (434 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 4,855 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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