mcp_diptrace: Skill for Claude Code

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

diptrace-pcb-testpoints is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fireostendere/mcp_diptrace. It costs 91 tokens per session (835 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for planning and placing physical test points on a DipTrace PCB. A test point is an accessible pad used by a probe or test fixture to measure a circuit net.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit test coverage, choose probe-pad locations, place one test point per requested net, and verify the resulting board layout.
Why use it?
It improves access for board testing while avoiding sensitive or risky nets such as antenna feeds, crystals, switching nodes, and high-impedance analog signals. A dry-run preview helps check placements before they are committed.

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 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 835 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 $0.00091 $0.00835
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00334
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00084

Measured 19d ago against content hash 2400bed3772f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diptrace-pcb-testpoints 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 19d 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-testpoints/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DipTrace PCB Test Points

Headless PCB-only workflow over the DipTrace MCP server. For schematic-wired test points use the separate diptrace-testpoints skill. Datasheets, DRC, and manufacturability override anything here.

Parse the request

  • nets= explicit net list. Without it, build a proposal from review_testpoint_coverage plus design knowledge and confirm before writing.
  • side=Top|Bottom — default Top.
  • pad=<mm> probe pad diameter, default 1.0 mm; hole=<mm> default 0 (surface pad). Through-hole only when requested.
  • grid=<mm> candidate grid, default 2.54 mm.
  • mode=review|plan|apply. Direct "add testpoints" means apply, but show the placement table before committing.

Hard rules

  1. Always call add_testpoints with dry_run=true first; commit only with the preview's expected_sha256.
  2. Never place a TP on an RF antenna feed, crystal, switching node, reset, or high-impedance analog net unless the user explicitly names that net.
  3. One TP per net. Skip nets already covered by list_testpoints.
  4. Candidate generation avoids component/testpoint/keepout bounding boxes but NOT traces, vias, or pads. Sanity-check every chosen coordinate against routed geometry before committing, and run DRC after.
  5. The TP pad joins its net logically; copper still needs a pour (typical for GND) or a short stub trace to the nearest same-net pad. Escape beyond the pad copper edge plus applicable clearance before any via; via-in-pad stays disabled.
  6. Keep TPs off the board-edge margin (≥0.5 mm, more for pogo fixtures) and out of connector and tall-component shadows; enclosure shadowing is not modeled by the tools.
  7. Auto RefDes is TP<n>; pass refdes only to keep a fixture map stable.

Workflow

  1. diptrace_status, then summarize_design on the PCB path.
  2. Baseline: list_testpoints and review_testpoint_coverage.
  3. Choose target nets: functional signals worth probing; power/GND only when the user wants supply probing. List intentionally skipped nets with reasons.
  4. find_testpoint_candidates(target_nets, side, probe_diameter, grid) — take rank 1–2 per net; prefer a spot near the driver/receiver pad so the stub stays short.
  5. Show the table before editing:

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 19d ago Changed 2400bed3772f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 961160e2b417

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diptrace-pcb-testpoints is a skill published in the GitHub repository fireostendere/mcp_diptrace (25 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 835 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-13.