new-circuit

new-circuit is a skill for Claude Code from nickkraakman/skidl-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for starting or resuming a PCB circuit design. PCB means a printed circuit board; the workflow covers requirements, circuit architecture, component sourcing, SKiDL code, electrical checks, and exported files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new schematic, continue an existing circuit, generate SKiDL code, run electrical-rule checks, and produce a parts list and manufacturing files.
Why use it?
It keeps a circuit design moving through defined stages and preserves progress so an unfinished design can be resumed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skidl-skills plugin — 4 skills, 9 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a new schematic, continue an existing circuit, generate SKiDL code, run electrical-rule checks, and produce a parts list and manufacturing files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickkraakman/skidl-skills/new-circuit
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 nickkraakman/skidl-skills --skill new-circuit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nickkraakman/skidl-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skidl-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 9 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 344 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 $0.00065 $0.00344
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00034

Measured 12d ago against content hash 92168430f2b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-circuit 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 12d 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/new-circuit/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

New Circuit

When to use

  • User asks to start, create, or design a new circuit
  • User asks to resume a circuit that is in progress
  • Invoked via /skidl-ee:new-circuit

Procedure

  1. Read pipeline_state.json (project root, see schema in pipeline_state_schema.json).
  2. If stage is not "initial", ask: "Resume current circuit <circuit_name> or start fresh?"
  3. Spawn the orchestrator agent and pass:
    • current pipeline_state.json contents
    • the user's stated intent (new vs resume)
  4. The orchestrator runs the full pipeline:
    • Interview → Architecture → Part sourcing → SKiDL coding → ERC → Export

Inputs

  • pipeline_state.json — existing state (may be absent on first run)

Output

  • Updated pipeline_state.json with completed stages and file paths
  • Files created by downstream agents: SPEC.md, circuits/*.py, outputs/*.net, outputs/BOM.csv

Validation

  • Do not hand off to orchestrator without reading pipeline state first
  • Never skip the "resume or start fresh?" prompt when a non-initial stage exists
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 37 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 92168430f2b1

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new-circuit is a skill published in the GitHub repository nickkraakman/skidl-skills (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 344 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 2026-08-30.

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