mcp_diptrace: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/diptrace-pcb-grounding/SKILL.md

diptrace-pcb-grounding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fireostendere/mcp_diptrace. It costs 69 tokens per session (939 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A DipTrace PCB layout guide for choosing how ground copper is connected on a circuit board, based on current chip datasheets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a board layout, placing a switching regulator or QFN chip, or checking ground pours, vias, and thermal connections.
Why use it?
It helps avoid outdated advice and poorly connected ground areas that can affect circuit operation or board manufacturing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is fireostendere/mcp_diptrace's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on mcp_diptrace itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp_diptrace configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fireostendere/mcp_diptrace. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fireostendere/mcp_diptrace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 939 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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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 $0.00069 $0.00939
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00094

Measured 12d ago against content hash c8a46afd48d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

diptrace-pcb-grounding 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/diptrace-pcb-grounding/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DipTrace PCB Grounding

Decide the ground system from datasheet evidence first, then implement it with the house 2-layer stackup. Datasheets, electrical safety, DRC, and manufacturability take precedence over any rule here.

Decide the strategy from the datasheet

  1. Read the Layout section and the revision history of every power IC. Vendors quietly retire old grounding advice. Example: TI TPS63802 (SLVSEU9D, rev B→C changes) deleted the guideline to separate AGND and PGND and the wording "connect AGND and PGND through via at a different layer"; the current text asks for a common power-ground node and, if control ground is kept separate, a join "close to one of the ground pins of the IC". Old split-plane advice found in forum posts or app notes is obsolete for that part.
  2. Default answer for ordinary 2-layer boards: one continuous GND polygon on Bottom, GND pour on Top, stitched together. Do not split planes.
  3. "Separate grounds" in a modern datasheet means nodes/islands that meet at a single point near the IC ground pin (a local star tie), not physically split copper regions spanning the board. Implement islands only when the current datasheet text still demands them; join them at the IC pad.
  4. Reserve true star grounding (separate return wires meeting at one chassis or supply node) for mixed high-current/precision-analog systems; it is not a PCB-plane technique and must never break the continuous plane under signal traces.

Switching regulator stage

  • Input and output capacitors as close as possible to the IC; short, wide, direct traces (TPS63802 §12.1 items 1 and 3: separate supply traces for power stage and analog stage).
  • Keep both switching-node copper areas compact; the inductor sits tight between the L pins.
  • FB is a signal trace: route it away from L1/L2 and the inductor body.
  • Return currents of the hot loop (input cap → IC → output cap) must flow in local copper, not through a distant board region.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 12d ago First seen · 78 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A c8a46afd48d6

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diptrace-pcb-grounding is a skill published in the GitHub repository fireostendere/mcp_diptrace (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 939 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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