schematic-plan

schematic-plan is a skill for Claude Code from ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill for deciding where circuit components go and how they connect in a KiCad schematic. It uses a validated BOM, or bill of materials, which lists the required parts, and does not edit files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan component coordinates and wire connections, producing specs/schematic-plan.md for the next design stage.
Why use it?
It turns a parts list into a precise placement and wiring plan before schematic capture, reducing guesswork.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

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

Good fit It helps plan component coordinates and wire connections, producing specs/schematic-plan.md for the next design stage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/productofamerica/mcp-server-kicad/schematic-plan
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 schematic-plan
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, 1 agent, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,433 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 $0.00039 $0.02433
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01216
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00243

Measured 11d ago against content hash 81f4c0598e7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

schematic-plan 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.

skills/schematic-plan/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EVERY KiCad operation has a corresponding MCP tool. Do NOT claim a tool does not exist without first listing all available tools. Key tools that MUST be used instead of file writes:

  • add_symbol — create custom symbol definitions in .kicad_sym files
  • create_symbol_library — create new .kicad_sym library files
  • create_schematic — create new .kicad_sch files
  • create_project — create new .kicad_pro project files If you find yourself thinking "there's no MCP tool for this," you are wrong. Check the tool list again.

Schematic Plan

Pure planning phase — no file modifications. Only inspection MCP tools (list_lib_symbols, get_symbol_info). Note: get_symbol_pins requires a schematic with placed symbols and cannot be used during planning. Use get_symbol_info instead — it reads pin definitions directly from library files.

Inputs: specs/bom.md (validated BOM from circuit-design) Outputs: specs/schematic-plan.md (placement and wiring plan)

Response Format

When this skill activates, print exactly:

Using schematic-plan to plan placement and wiring from the validated BOM.

Then immediately proceed to the Pre-flight checks. This is a mechanical planning phase — do not ask the user what to do. Read specs/bom.md and execute the planning steps.

Report progress at natural milestones (after page size calculation, after coordinate assignment, after wiring plan). Keep status updates to one line each.

Pre-flight

  1. Verify specs/bom.md exists
  2. Verify BOM reviewer returned APPROVED
  3. Read the BOM and count components per stage
  4. If modifying an existing hierarchical schematic, run validate_hierarchy to inspect current annotation state — the plan must account for existing ref conflicts

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 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 · 247 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 81f4c0598e7e

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schematic-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProductOfAmerica/mcp-server-kicad (8 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,433 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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