kicad-pcb

kicad-pcb is a skill for Claude Code from nevenfo/kicad-agentic-mcp. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A workflow skill for designing printed circuit boards in KiCad, an electronics design program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to lay out boards, route traces, place footprints, define board outlines, set track widths, create copper zones, and configure stackups.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for common board-layout tasks such as placing parts, routing connections, and checking design rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to lay out boards, route traces, place footprints, define board outlines, set track widths, create copper zones, and configure stackups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nevenfo/kicad-agentic-mcp/kicad-pcb
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 nevenfo/kicad-agentic-mcp --skill kicad-pcb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nevenfo/kicad-agentic-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,137 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 unknown 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 $0.00081 $0.02137
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00214

Measured 11d ago against content hash fab126216130, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kicad-pcb 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.

crates/konnect/assets/skills/kicad-pcb/SKILL.md · 260 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 260 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A fab126216130

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kicad-pcb is a skill published in the GitHub repository nevenfo/kicad-agentic-mcp (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,137 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 2026-08-31.

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