circuit-design

circuit-design is a skill for Claude Code from hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for designing an analog circuit schematic from its block specifications. They cover choosing a circuit structure, sizing devices with gm/Id, setting bias conditions, capturing the schematic, and checking it before layout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when designing analog blocks such as op-amps, comparators, bandgaps, low-dropout regulators, or bias generators.
Why use it?
They provide stage-by-stage guidance for producing a schematic that meets electrical requirements and is free of basic connectivity errors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the analog-design-circuit plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use them when designing analog blocks such as op-amps, comparators, bandgaps, low-dropout regulators, or bias generators.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents/circuit-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents --skill circuit-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install analog-design-circuit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,787 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 $0.00074 $0.02787
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01393
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00279

Measured 11d ago against content hash fe57248693cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

circuit-design 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 11d 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.

plugins/circuit/skills/circuit-design/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Circuit (Schematic) Design

Invocation

  • If invoked by a user presenting a circuit design task: immediately spawn the analog-chip-design-agents:circuit-design-orchestrator agent and pass the full user request and any available context. Do not execute stages directly.
  • If invoked by the circuit-design-orchestrator mid-flow (including fix-request servicing): do not spawn a new agent. Treat this file as read-only — return the requested stage rules, sign-off criteria, or loop-back guidance.

Spawning the orchestrator from within an active orchestrator run causes recursive delegation and must never happen.

Pre-run Context

Before executing or advising on any stage, read the following if they exist:

  1. memory/circuit/knowledge.md — known topology pitfalls, successful sizing recipes, PDK device quirks. Incorporate its guidance into every stage decision.
  2. memory/circuit/run_state.md — current run identity (run_id, design_name, pdk, last_stage) for resume-after-interruption.

Purpose

Guide analog block design from topology choice through a sign-off-ready, ERC-clean schematic and SPICE netlist meeting the block's pre-layout electrical specs. Six stages with explicit QoR gates and loop-back criteria enforced by the circuit-design orchestrator.


Supported EDA Tools

Open-Source

  • xschem (xschem) — schematic capture and SPICE netlist export; de-facto open analog schematic tool, integrates with sky130/gf180mcu/ihp-sg13g2 PDKs (and the predictive academic PDKs freepdk45/asap7)
  • ngspice (ngspice) — in-the-loop DC/AC sweeps during sizing
  • Qucs-S (qucs-s) — schematic + simulation front-end
  • Hdl21 + VLSIR (python -m hdl21) — programmatic (Python) analog schematic generation
  • BAG / BAG3 — generator-based analog design framework
  • gm/Id toolkits — lookup-table-based sizing (Python; from characterized device data)

Proprietary (detect-only — never installed)

  • Cadence Virtuoso Schematic Editor (virtuoso) — schematic capture with ADE
  • Synopsys Custom Compiler (custom_compiler) — schematic and design entry
  • Siemens Tanner S-Edit (s-edit) — schematic capture
  • MunEDA WiCkeD / Siemens Solido — automated sizing, optimization, and yield

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 11d ago First seen · 262 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A fe57248693cf

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circuit-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository hdl-tools/analog-chip-design-agents (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,787 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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