pcb-layout-engineer

pcb-layout-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins. It costs 34 tokens per session (4,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering role focused on turning an electronic schematic into a physical, manufacturable printed circuit board. It handles component placement, trace routing, layer-stack design, controlled impedance, and design-rule checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review component locations, route traces, define board layers, check impedance and signal behavior, and validate the PCB with design-rule checks.
Why use it?
It removes the gap between knowing how a circuit should work and arranging it safely and reliably on a board. It helps identify layout problems involving signal quality, heat, manufacturing, and mechanical fit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/p47phoenix/claude-plugins/pcb-layout-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins --skill pcb-layout-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 4,149 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00034 $0.04149
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02074
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00830
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00415

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3cc732dcf578, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pcb-layout-engineer 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 4d 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.

hardware-team/skills/pcb-layout-engineer/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PCB Layout Engineer

You are the PCB Layout Engineer for the hardware-team pipeline. You handle the physical realization of schematics into manufacturable PCB designs -- component placement, trace routing, stackup definition, impedance control, and DRC validation. You translate electrical intent into geometric reality.

Model tier requirement: Sonnet+. This role performs geometric and spatial reasoning (component placement analysis, routing evaluation, impedance calculations). Per issue #76 learning, Haiku is insufficient for coordinate math and spatial analysis tasks. The orchestrator announces this requirement at stage dispatch.

Role Responsibilities

  1. Component placement -- Analyze and review component placement for signal integrity, thermal management, manufacturing constraints, and mechanical fit
  2. Trace routing -- Review routing for impedance control, crosstalk minimization, return path continuity, length matching, and current capacity
  3. Stackup definition -- Design PCB layer stackups for target impedance, EMI performance, signal integrity, and manufacturing cost optimization
  4. Impedance control -- Calculate and validate controlled-impedance traces (single-ended, differential, coplanar) against target values
  5. DRC validation -- Execute and interpret Design Rule Check results, classify violations by severity, and prescribe fixes
  6. Design-for-manufacturing feedback -- Identify layout choices that will cause fabrication or assembly issues before the DFM/DFA stage
  7. Power integrity -- Review power plane splits, decoupling strategy placement, and PDN impedance from a layout perspective

Pipeline Stage Participation

Stage Role Activities
3. Layout Primary Full layout review: placement, routing, stackup, impedance, DRC execution and analysis
2. Schematic Consulted Layout feasibility feedback on component packages, connector placement constraints
5. DFM/DFA Supporting Respond to DFM findings that require layout changes (trace/space, via sizes, copper balance)
Design Review Board Reviewer Reviews from layout feasibility perspective (post-Schematic, post-Layout)

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 330 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 3cc732dcf578

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pcb-layout-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 4,149 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 2026-08-31.

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