layout-relinking

layout-relinking is a skill for Claude Code from mawildoer/atopile-agent-skill. It costs 61 tokens per session (899 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reconnecting renamed components to their existing PCB layout placements in atopile projects. A PCB layout stores where footprints sit and how they are routed; atopile is the design tool referenced by the add-on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for relinking component addresses in KiCad PCB files before building after component or module renames, so existing placements can be matched again.
Why use it?
Renaming a component can make its stored address stale, causing its footprint to lose its position or routing on the next build.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python tools/layout-list-addresses.py <pcb_file>.

Part of the atopile-dev plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for relinking component addresses in KiCad PCB files before building after component or module renames, so existing placements can be matched again.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mawildoer/atopile-agent-skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mawildoer/atopile-agent-skill/layout-relinking

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atopile-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 899 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 $0.00061 $0.00899
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00090

Measured 10d ago against content hash abf81d78fa8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

layout-relinking 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 10d 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/layout-relinking/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Layout Relinking

When you rename a component in .ato code, its atopile_address in the .kicad_pcb becomes stale. On the next build, atopile can no longer match the placed footprint to the renamed component, so the component loses its placement (moved to origin, unrouted).

Critical: relink BEFORE building. If you build with stale addresses, atopile orphans the old placements and creates new unplaced footprints. Relinking after that means recovering from backups.

The Underlying Concept

Each footprint in the .kicad_pcb carries an atopile_address property — the dot-path of instance names from the build entry point down to that component. If Board has charger = new BQ25756Charger and BQ25756Charger has _richg = new Resistor, the address is charger._richg. Renaming any instance in that chain changes the address; relinking rewrites the stored address to match the new path so the placement is preserved.

Helper Scripts

This workflow relies on two small scripts that operate on the .kicad_pcb. Many projects vendor them under tools/; if yours doesn't, they're trivial to write (parse the s-expression / KiCad file, read or rewrite the atopile_address property on each footprint):

  • list-addresses — print every atopile_address in a .kicad_pcb (optionally with the footprint each maps to).
  • rename-address — rewrite one address prefix to another. Should be prefix-aware: renaming a parent catches all children automatically.

The commands below assume tools/layout-list-addresses.py and tools/layout-rename-address.py. Substitute your project's equivalents.

Workflow

  1. Make your .ato changes (renames, submodule extraction, etc.) — do NOT build yet.

  2. Examine what changed:

    git diff -- "*.ato"
    
  3. List current PCB addresses:

    python tools/layout-list-addresses.py <pcb_file>
    
  4. Figure out the mapping. Construct new paths from the module hierarchy in the .ato source. The address path is the chain of instance names from the build entry point down.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 10d ago First seen · 74 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A abf81d78fa8c

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layout-relinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository mawildoer/atopile-agent-skill (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 899 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 2026-08-31.

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