What is pcb-project-intake?

A read-only intake process for DipTrace electronics projects. DipTrace is software for designing circuit boards, schematics, components, and connection layouts.

Use it to inspect board and schematic documents, design rules, component and pattern libraries, connectivity, file versions, units, sizes, and checksums.

It creates an evidence-based baseline before planning changes, separating facts in the project files from requirements that are still unknown.

pcb-project-intake — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by fireostendere

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 fireostendere/mcp_diptrace --skill pcb-project-intake

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fireostendere/mcp_diptrace

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.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 889 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00079	$0.00889
Opus 5.5	$0.00032	$0.00356
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00178
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00089

Measured 28d ago against content hash 1f34b4c19bc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pcb-project-intake 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 28d 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/pcb-project-intake/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime access before choosing between explicit-path MCP, a live bridge session, and native/headless CLI. Their availability is separate.

PCB project intake

RAG: engineering memory by default — shared workflow. Build project context from recorded requirements, architecture and prior lessons; relate the exact file/model inventory to design intent and the next engineering decisions.

Produce a read-only project baseline. Do not turn absent fields into assumed requirements. Use public tools/list for exact callable names and get_capabilities for document/configured feature availability.

Workflow

Call diptrace_status, then get_capabilities.
Resolve each document as XML or a native binary before get_document_info. Explicit-path XML inspection does not require a live editor. For a binary .dch/.dip, find its corresponding XML export or create one with diptrace_mcp.native_xml_export on a private copy (Windows, verified build); base roundtrip alone does not export XML. Record kind, literal format version, document units, byte size, and SHA-256. Treat PCB, schematic, component library, and pattern library as different source types.
Read only advertised models: get_board_model, get_schematic_model, get_design_rules, and get_connectivity_graph. Use count-only or paginated board reads when the response is large.
Separate caller requirements from document facts. Record an unresolved requirement as blocked_by_input only when it changes topology, ratings, pin mapping, mechanical datum, units, or release criteria.
Return the inventory through ../shared/result.schema.json.

Quantitative boundaries

All MCP geometry is millimetres even when root Units is inch or mil; preserve the literal root value as document evidence.
get_board_model accepts page limits from 1 through 500 and has a count-only mode; use the advertised byte budget instead of requesting the whole board.
One write transaction is limited to 100 staged operations and 500 conservatively counted affected objects/elements; the count may exceed unique physical objects. This skill never opens one.
A SHA-256 is exactly 64 lowercase hexadecimal characters. Never substitute a path or timestamp for document identity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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.

28d ago Changed · +1 lines · +28 tokens per session 1f34b4c19bc8
1mo ago Changed · +11 lines · +4 tokens per session 127b54b5a985
2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A d160f7160677

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pcb-project-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository fireostendere/mcp_diptrace (25 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 889 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

Hardware and IoT Planning

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