pcb-layout

pcb-layout is a skill for Claude Code from ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad. It costs 54 tokens per session (4,420 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A KiCad skill for laying out a printed circuit board after the circuit schematic and netlist are ready. A netlist is the list of electrical connections that the board must implement.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps place footprints, route traces, add vias and copper zones, and plan board layers, ground planes, and stackups.
Why use it?
It guides component placement, trace routing, vias, copper zones, and layout decisions such as trace widths and spacing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the kicad plugin — 6 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps place footprints, route traces, add vias and copper zones, and plan board layers, ground planes, and stackups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/productofamerica/mcp-server-kicad/pcb-layout
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 ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad --skill pcb-layout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kicad, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,420 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.
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 $0.00054 $0.04420
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01768
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00884
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00442

Measured 8d ago against content hash 579e19550391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pcb-layout 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 8d 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.

skills/pcb-layout/SKILL.md · 403 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago Changed 579e19550391
  2. 15d ago Changed 0ba7cb7f4b86
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 403 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 20db40d960c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pcb-layout is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad (15 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 4,420 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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