A guide to designing printed circuit boards with KiCad, an open-source electronics design program. It covers the process from circuit diagrams through board files for manufacturing and 3D previews.

Use it to work with schematics, bills of materials, netlists, PCB layouts, Gerber manufacturing files, drill files, SVG or PDF exports, and board previews.

It puts the main PCB design steps and command-line checks in one workflow, reducing the need to remember separate tools and export commands.

kicad — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by ProfYangShengXu

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 ProfYangShengXu/nuedc-skills --skill kicad

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ProfYangShengXu/nuedc-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

README.md

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,106 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00048	$0.02106
Opus 5	$0.00024	$0.01053
Sonnet 5	$0.00010	$0.00421
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00211

Measured 11d ago against content hash 951046424956, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kicad 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.

.reasonix/skills/kicad/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KiCad EDA PCB 设计全流程技能

KiCad 10.0.3 版 — 开源 PCB 设计，电赛学生首选从原理图到 Gerber 打样，agent 全程辅助

📦 一、安装与验证

1.1 安装 KiCad

# winget 安装（推荐）
winget install --id KiCad.KiCad --exact

# 或手动下载
# https://www.kicad.org/download/windows/
# 选择 kicad-10.0.3-x86_64.exe (~921MB)

1.2 验证安装

kicad-cli version          # 显示版本号: 10.0.3
kicad-cli --help           # 查看所有 CLI 命令

1.3 确认 Python API 可用

# 在 KiCad 内置 Python 中运行
& "C:\Program Files\KiCad.0in\python.exe" -c "import pcbnew; print(pcbnew.VERSION)"

🛠 二、KiCad CLI 命令速查

2.1 原理图操作

命令	说明
`kicad-cli sch export svg schematic.kicad_sch --output output.svg`	原理图导出 SVG
`kicad-cli sch export pdf schematic.kicad_sch --output output.pdf`	原理图导出 PDF
`kicad-cli sch export bom schematic.kicad_sch --output bom.csv`	导出 BOM
`kicad-cli sch export netlist schematic.kicad_sch --output netlist.net`	导出网表

2.2 PCB 操作

命令	说明
`kicad-cli pcb export gerber board.kicad_pcb --output gerber/`	导出 Gerber（JLCPCB 打样）
`kicad-cli pcb export drill board.kicad_pcb --output gerber/`	导出钻孔文件
`kicad-cli pcb export svg board.kicad_pcb --output pcb.svg`	PCB 导出 SVG
`kicad-cli pcb export pdf board.kicad_pcb --output pcb.pdf`	PCB 导出 PDF
`kicad-cli pcb export pos board.kicad_pcb --output pos.csv`	导出贴片坐标
`kicad-cli pcb export step board.kicad_pcb --output board.step`	导出 3D STEP

2.3 设计规则检查 (DRC)

kicad-cli pcb drc board.kicad_pcb --output drc.rpt
# 输出: 间距错误 / 未连接网络 / 丝印冲突

🐍 三、Python API (pcbnew) 编程

3.1 自动创建 PCB 板

import pcbnew

board = pcbnew.BOARD()
board.SetDesignSettings(pcbnew.DESIGN_SETTINGS())

# 设置板子大小
W = pcbnew.FromMM(50)
H = pcbnew.FromMM(40)

# 画板框
outline = pcbnew.PCB_SHAPE()
outline.SetShape(pcbnew.SHAPE_T_RECT)
outline.SetLayer(pcbnew.Edge_Cuts)
outline.SetStart(pcbnew.VECTOR2I(0, 0))
outline.SetEnd(pcbnew.VECTOR2I(W, H))
board.Add(outline)

board.Save("my_board.kicad_pcb")

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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.

11d ago First seen · 224 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 951046424956

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kicad is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProfYangShengXu/nuedc-skills (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,106 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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