kicad-mcp-pro: Skill for Claude Code

.opencode/skills/fabrication-output/SKILL.md

fabrication-output is a skill for Claude Code, OpenCode from oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,095 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for preparing KiCad files for circuit-board manufacturing, including design checks, exported production files, and release records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export Gerbers, drill files, bills of materials, pick-and-place data, 3D or PDF documents, and manufacturing review evidence. Gerbers are standard files used to produce circuit-board layers.
Why use it?
It organizes the checks and information needed before sending a board to a manufacturer and keeps unresolved problems visible for human approval.

Skill for Claude CodeOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and OpenCode: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also installed under .opencode/.

This is oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and OpenCode how to work on kicad-mcp-pro itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kicad-mcp-pro configures →

Part of the kicad-pro plugin — 10 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro/main/.opencode/skills/fabrication-output/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro

Made for: Claude Code, OpenCode.

Or install kicad-pro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,095 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.01095
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured 13d ago against content hash c43720a097d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fabrication-output 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 13d 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.

.opencode/skills/fabrication-output/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fabrication Output Skill

Use this skill when an AI agent is asked to prepare, validate, or package KiCad manufacturing outputs through KiCad MCP Pro.

This skill is specific to oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro and should be kept synchronized with docs/tools-reference.generated.md.

When to use

Use this skill for:

  • Gerber and drill export
  • BOM and pick-and-place export
  • STEP/3D/PDF fabrication documentation
  • DFM review
  • Manufacturing quality gate review
  • Release evidence and manifest generation
  • Final manufacturing handoff preparation

Do not use this skill before ERC/DRC/DFM status is known.

Required context

Collect:

  • Active KiCad project path
  • Target manufacturer or generic fabrication constraints
  • Board stackup and layer count
  • Assembly requirement: PCB only, SMT assembly, through-hole, mixed assembly, or prototype
  • Required output directory
  • Whether variants/DNP/population options apply
  • Human approval status for unresolved violations and waivers

Primary MCP tools

Pre-release gates

  • kicad_get_project_info
  • project_quality_gate
  • project_quality_gate_report
  • project_professional_release_gate
  • project_release_readiness
  • project_signoff_report
  • run_erc
  • run_drc
  • check_design_for_manufacture
  • manufacturing_quality_gate

Manufacturing and DFM tools

  • dfm_load_manufacturer_profile
  • dfm_run_manufacturer_check
  • dfm_calculate_manufacturing_cost
  • mfg_generate_test_plan
  • mfg_create_release_evidence
  • mfg_generate_release_manifest
  • mfg_correct_cpl_rotations
  • pcb_check_creepage_clearance
  • pcb_check_test_coverage

Export tools

  • export_manufacturing_package
  • export_gerber
  • export_drill
  • export_bom
  • export_pick_and_place
  • export_netlist
  • export_pcb_pdf
  • export_sch_pdf
  • export_step
  • export_3d_render
  • export_ipc2581
  • export_odb
  • export_ipc_d356
  • jobset_list_templates
  • jobset_validate
  • jobset_export
  • variant_export_manufacturing_package

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 13d ago First seen · 150 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A c43720a097d6

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fabrication-output is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro (86 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,095 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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