kicad-mcp-pro: Skill for Claude Code

.opencode/skills/visual-excellence/SKILL.md

visual-excellence is a skill for Claude Code, OpenCode from oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for making KiCad schematics look clean and professionally drawn while preserving their electrical connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure cosmetic quality, apply safe layout fixes, render the schematic, and verify the result separately from electrical checks.
Why use it?
It addresses visual problems such as misplaced parts, diagonal wires, overlapping labels, and inconsistent symbols, which electrical checks alone do not detect.

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/visual-excellence/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 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,471 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 $0.00035 $0.01471
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00147

Measured 12d ago against content hash 19b1d460b5b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.opencode/skills/visual-excellence/SKILL.md · 131 lines

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 the worst_category to 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, junctions
  • sch_straighten_wires — flatten almost-orthogonal wire segments
  • sch_resolve_label_overlaps — flip label justify so text stops colliding
  • sch_normalize_power_orientation — upright sideways power/ground symbols
  • sch_normalize_text_sizes — normalise outlier fonts onto the dominant size

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

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.

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 · 131 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 19b1d460b5b6

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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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