kicad-mcp-pro: Skill for Claude Code

.opencode/skills/schematic-review/SKILL.md

schematic-review is a skill for Claude Code, OpenCode from oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro. It costs 31 tokens per session (977 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review workflow for KiCad schematics, which are drawings that describe how electronic parts and connections fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pre-layout checks, ERC review, net and power inspection, visual checks, and carefully approved schematic edits.
Why use it?
It gives an AI agent a structured way to check electrical-rule warnings, connections, symbols, power, readability, and other review concerns without claiming that the design is fully correct.

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/schematic-review/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 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 977 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 $0.00977
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00098

Measured 11d ago against content hash b144006fa931, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

schematic-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 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.

.opencode/skills/schematic-review/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Schematic Review Skill

Use this skill when an AI agent is asked to inspect, review, or safely improve a KiCad schematic 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:

  • Pre-layout schematic review
  • ERC review
  • Net connectivity review
  • Power flag and no-connect review
  • Symbol, footprint, and component-property inspection
  • Readability and visual QA
  • Conservative schematic edits when explicitly requested

Do not use this skill to claim electrical correctness without ERC, design-rule review, datasheet review, and human engineering approval.

Required context

Collect:

  • Active project path and schematic file
  • Design intent and functional requirements
  • Expected power rails, interfaces, and critical nets
  • Component sourcing assumptions
  • Whether the task is read-only review or allowed to modify the schematic

Primary MCP tools

Project and intent

  • kicad_get_project_info
  • project_get_design_intent
  • project_set_design_intent
  • project_get_design_spec
  • project_import_design_spec
  • project_design_report

Read-only schematic inspection

  • sch_get_symbols
  • sch_get_net_names
  • sch_get_labels
  • sch_get_wires
  • sch_get_connectivity_graph
  • sch_get_circuit_ir
  • sch_trace_net
  • sch_check_power_flags
  • sch_get_population_status
  • lib_get_symbol_info
  • lib_get_footprint_info
  • lib_verify_component_contract

ERC, quality, and visual checks

  • run_erc
  • schematic_quality_gate
  • schematic_connectivity_gate
  • schematic_design_rule_check
  • sch_visual_qa
  • sch_render_png
  • project_quality_gate

Controlled schematic edit tools

Use only when explicitly requested and when the workflow is allowed to modify files.

  • sch_add_symbol
  • sch_add_component
  • sch_add_wire
  • sch_add_label
  • sch_add_global_label
  • sch_add_power_symbol
  • sch_add_no_connect
  • sch_add_missing_junctions
  • sch_modify_property
  • sch_update_properties
  • sch_move_symbol
  • sch_delete_symbol
  • sch_plan_from_spec
  • sch_preview_plan
  • sch_apply_plan
  • sch_verify_plan
  • sch_rollback_plan
  • sch_reload

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 11d ago First seen · 147 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A b144006fa931

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schematic-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro (83 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 977 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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