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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro/main/.opencode/skills/visual-excellence/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaslananka/kicad-mcp-proWrote this? Show the measurements
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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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00035 | $0.01471 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00736 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00294 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
visual-excellence 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- deepworkplan — 86% identical, 227 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Visual Excellence Skill
Use this skill when an AI agent is asked to make a KiCad schematic look professional — clean, readable, and conventionally drawn — not just electrically correct. It closes the loop between measuring cosmetic quality, applying safe fixes, and visually confirming the result.
This skill is specific to oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro and should be kept
synchronized with docs/tools-reference.generated.md.
When to use
- Post-capture cleanup before layout or review
- Preparing a schematic for a datasheet, report, or customer hand-off
- Whenever a sheet "works but looks rushed": off-grid parts, diagonal wires, colliding labels, sideways power symbols, inconsistent fonts
Do not use this skill to claim electrical correctness. Cosmetic fixes never
substitute for ERC, connectivity review, or human engineering approval. Run
sch_visual_qa / run_erc separately for correctness.
The invariant you can rely on
Every cosmetic fixer treats electrical connectivity as a hard invariant. It computes a coordinate-independent connectivity signature before and after the change; a fixer that would alter any net is refused on apply and never writes. So you can apply fixes without fear of silently breaking a net — but always confirm with the render and the visual diff, and finish with an ERC pass.
Required context
- Active project path and the schematic file(s)
- The target cosmetic score (default: 80/100)
- Whether you are allowed to modify the schematic (this skill mutates on
apply=true; it needs write operating mode)
Primary MCP tools
Measure
sch_cosmetic_score— 0–100 score with a per-category penalty breakdown and theworst_categoryto fix first (grid,wiring,typography,orientation,layout_balance,readability,documentation)sch_visual_qa— readability findings (overlaps, off-sheet, dense fanout)
Fix (dry-run by default; pass apply=true to commit)
sch_align_to_grid— snap off-grid symbols, labels, wires, junctionssch_straighten_wires— flatten almost-orthogonal wire segmentssch_resolve_label_overlaps— flip label justify so text stops collidingsch_normalize_power_orientation— upright sideways power/ground symbolssch_normalize_text_sizes— normalise outlier fonts onto the dominant size
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 131 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 19b1d460b5b6
visual-excellence is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro (86 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,471 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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schematic-plan
Use after circuit-design produces a validated BOM (specs/bom.md) to plan exact component placement coordinates and wiring before schematic capture begins. Pure planning — no file modifications.
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Use when starting any conversation involving electronics, KiCad, PCB design, schematic capture, circuit design, or EDA tasks.
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schematic-design
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