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ki-stack-render

A tool workflow that turns KiCad schematics, circuit boards, symbols, and footprints into image or document files. KiCad is software for designing electronic circuits and printed circuit boards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export schematics, PCB views, 3D board images, symbols, and footprints as SVG, PDF, PNG, or JPEG files.
Why use it?
It provides consistent visual files for inspection, comparison, documentation, and checking design changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

7 3mo ago A scan 63 tokens original MIT
View the source file Milind220/Ki-Stack
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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/milind220/ki-stack/ki-stack-render
Any agent
npx skills add Milind220/Ki-Stack --skill ki-stack-render
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Milind220/Ki-Stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,227 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.01227
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00123

Measured yesterday against content hash 7be83ef523fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ki-stack-render 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 yesterday.

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/ki-stack/ki-stack-render/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ki-stack-render

Purpose

This skill teaches the agent how to turn KiCad design artifacts into visual outputs.

It is the canonical ki-stack skill for:

  • schematic rendering
  • PCB 2D rendering
  • PCB 3D raster rendering
  • symbol rendering
  • footprint rendering
  • SVG to PNG conversion when raster images are needed
  • before/after visual verification

When to use it

Use this skill when the user asks to:

  • render a schematic sheet or whole schematic
  • render a board or a specific layer set
  • get a visual look at a symbol or footprint
  • export PDF or SVG deliverables
  • generate a PNG/JPEG screenshot-like artifact
  • verify that a change actually looks correct

Shared assumptions

  • Prefer kicad-cli as the default render path.
  • Prefer deterministic exports over GUI screenshots.
  • If the model needs raster images and the CLI emits SVG, convert the SVG to PNG.
  • Always report exact command lines and output paths.

Phase 1: Orient

  1. Locate kicad-cli:

    skills/ki-stack/bin/kicad-cli-path

  2. Detect the version:

    skills/ki-stack/bin/kicad-version

  3. If the input path is unclear, find likely KiCad files:

    skills/ki-stack/bin/kicad-project-find <root>

Phase 2: Identify render target

Choose one of these target classes:

  • schematic
  • pcb-2d
  • pcb-3d
  • symbol
  • footprint

Map the request to the target class before choosing the command.

Examples:

  • "Show me this board" -> pcb-2d or pcb-3d
  • "Render this symbol" -> symbol
  • "Give me a screenshot of the footprint" -> footprint
  • "Visualize page 2 of the schematic" -> schematic

Phase 3: Render

Use the helper wrapper whenever possible.

Schematic SVG

skills/ki-stack/bin/kicad-render schematic-svg design.kicad_sch out_dir

Schematic PDF

skills/ki-stack/bin/kicad-render schematic-pdf design.kicad_sch design.pdf

PCB SVG

skills/ki-stack/bin/kicad-render pcb-svg board.kicad_pcb out_dir --layers F.Cu,F.SilkS,Edge.Cuts --mode-single

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. yesterday First seen · 198 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 7be83ef523fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ki-stack-render is a skill published in the GitHub repository Milind220/Ki-Stack (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,227 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.

Data and AIDocumentsProductivityagent-skillsai-agentselectronics-automationkicadpcb-design
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