autodesign

An autonomous workflow for designing printed circuit boards, including schematics and board layouts, from a written requirement using Altium Designer or EasyEDA Pro.

In plain words
What is it for?
It starts a design session, follows the server-provided next action, records results, checks that the editor responds, and uses checkpoints so changes can be reverted.
Why use it?
It coordinates the design steps and keeps progress in a durable session, reducing the need to manually track the design process and its checks.

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/salitronic/eda-agent/autodesign
Any agent
npx skills add salitronic/eda-agent --skill autodesign
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/salitronic/eda-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 899 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 $0.00100 $0.00899
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00090

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5d31607b9b4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autodesign 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 3d 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/autodesign/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous PCB design (eda-agent)

Drive a full spec-to-board design by looping the server-side state machine. The server owns sequencing, gates, and durable state, so you never memorize the workflow: you call design_next_action, do what it says, log the result, and repeat. A weaker model produces a plainer board, never a broken pipeline, because the integrity lives server-side.

Before you start

  • Confirm the editor is actually answering, with app_ping on Altium or easyeda_ping on EasyEDA. Ping, not app_get_status: status reports that the process exists and that something once called attach, and neither of those proves the bridge replies. If it does not answer, tell the user how to start it; don't guess.
  • Read design_get_discipline once: the hard rules and the DesignPlan schema. Or call design_autonomy_guide for the full protocol + the 13 stages with their tools and exit gates.

The loop

  1. design_session_start(requirement) opens the durable journal. Keep the returned session_id; every later call takes it.
  2. If a project is open or will be modified, checkpoint first so the whole run is revertible in one step: app_checkpoint("before autonomous run") on Altium, easyeda_checkpoint on EasyEDA.
  3. Loop: design_next_action(session_id) and act on status:
    • proceed / retry: do the stage using its suggested_tools until the exit_gate is met, then design_session_log(event="stage_result", stage=<stage>, status="ok"). If you cannot finish without the user, log status="blocked" with a question and stop.
    • blocked: put open_question to the user; when answered, design_session_log(event="resolved", text=<answer>) and continue.
    • complete: the 13 stages are done; review outputs with the user.
  4. Checkpoint again before each high-risk mutating stage: sch_to_pcb, routing, pours_tuning.
  5. Long engine runs (routing a dense board) can exceed the tool timeout; start them with design_job_start and poll design_job_status / design_job_result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 3d ago First seen · 74 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 5d31607b9b4b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autodesign is a skill published in the GitHub repository salitronic/eda-agent (163 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 899 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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