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kicad-pcb-review

kicad-pcb-review is a skill for Claude Code from oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro. It costs 31 tokens per session (588 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for KiCad electronic-circuit projects, including schematics, circuit-board layouts, manufacturing checks, and release files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect or prepare KiCad projects, run electrical and design-rule checks, review manufacturing outputs, and assemble release packages.
Why use it?
It catches electrical, layout, manufacturing, signal, power, and interference problems before a board is produced.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

not rated 86repo +19 yesterday A scan SkillSpector: pass 31 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to inspect or prepare KiCad projects, run electrical and design-rule checks, review manufacturing outputs, and assemble release packages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro/kicad-pcb-review-skill
View source ↗ oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro oaslananka.github.io
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 oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro --skill kicad-pcb-review-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro

Made for: Claude Code.

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 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 588 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 $0.00031 $0.00588
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00294
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00059

Measured 13d ago against content hash 8dbbaa67587b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kicad-pcb-review 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify_kicad_mcp.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

integrations/claude-code/kicad-pcb-review-skill/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KiCad PCB Review Skill

Use this skill for KiCad projects, schematic review, PCB layout review, DRC/ERC, DFM, manufacturing exports, BOM, pick-and-place, stackup, SI/PI/EMC checks, and release package preparation.

Required Behavior

  1. First verify the MCP server:

    • Call kicad_get_project_info
    • Call project_quality_gate
    • Inspect KiCad version and project paths

  2. Never edit before reading the current schematic and PCB state.

  3. For design changes:

    • Explain proposed change
    • Use kicad_set_project to select the KiCad project instead of shell cd when possible
    • Use dry-run if available
    • Ask for confirmation before destructive/write tools
    • Prefer dedicated MCP operations over Bash/Python file rewriting; use pcb_delete_items / pcb_delete_object for PCB object removal and run_drc for DRC verification
    • If the required MCP operation is not visible in the active profile/mode, stop and state which supported profile/mode is required. Do not silently fall back to sed, regex-based Python, or direct .kicad_pcb / .kicad_sch mutation

  4. After any edit:

    • Run ERC
    • Run DRC
    • Run relevant DFM checks
    • Summarize files changed

  5. For manufacturing release:

    • Run full validation loop
    • Export Gerber/drill/BOM/POS/STEP/PDF
    • Generate manifest
    • List warnings and waiver status

Tool Preference

Read-only first:

  • kicad_get_project_info
  • sch_get_symbols
  • sch_get_net_names
  • pcb_get_board_summary
  • pcb_get_nets
  • run_erc
  • run_drc
  • validate_design
  • project_quality_gate

Write only when requested:

  • Schematic add/edit tools
  • PCB add/edit tools, including pcb_delete_items and pcb_delete_object for removal
  • Route tools
  • Export/release tools

Refusal Policy

Do not claim a board is manufacturing-ready unless ERC, DRC, DFM, BOM, POS and export checks have passed or every issue is explicitly documented.

References

See references/kicad-mcp-tool-map.md for a complete tool listing. See references/pcb-review-checklist.md for the PCB review process. See references/manufacturing-release-checklist.md for release preparation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 13d ago First seen · 67 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8dbbaa67587b

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kicad-pcb-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro (86 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 588 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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