operating-kicad-eda

operating-kicad-eda is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from telagod/code-abyss. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool router for KiCad 9, an electronics design program used to create circuit schematics, printed circuit board (PCB) layouts, and manufacturing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a design document into a schematic and PCB, run automatic routing, fix design-rule violations, and export Gerber files, bills of materials, or renders.
Why use it?
It coordinates schematic creation, PCB generation, automatic routing, design-rule checks, and exports while requiring library lookups and verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the code-abyss plugin — 48 skills shipped together

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/telagod/code-abyss/operating-kicad-eda
Any agent
npx skills add telagod/code-abyss --skill operating-kicad-eda
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/telagod/code-abyss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install code-abyss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for operating-kicad-eda

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/telagod/code-abyss/operating-kicad-eda"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/telagod/code-abyss/operating-kicad-eda.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,036 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 $0.00061 $0.01036
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 4d ago against content hash a109151a04c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operating-kicad-eda 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.

skills/operating-kicad-eda/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operating KiCad EDA

判断先于执行:决定「是否做 / 选什么 / 如何取舍」(栈、方案、架构、权衡)前,先读领域判断内核 skills/_kernel/hardware/SKILL.md——它管 judgment,本秘典管 execution;冲突时以内核判断为准。

MCP tool router for KiCad 9. Never guess, never hand-route, never parallelize PCB writes.

When to use

Scenario Use Approach
Create schematic from design doc Yes schematic() operations
Generate PCB from schematic Yes build_pcb_from_schematic
Route a PCB Yes autoroute(operation="run") only
Fix DRC violations Yes drc(operation="autofix")
Export manufacturing files Yes export() Gerber/BOM/render
Hand-place a single trace NO LLM traces violate clearances

Iron rules

  1. NEVER hand-routepcb(add_trace/add_via) produces DRC-failing garbage. Use autoroute(operation="run").
  2. NEVER guess names — footprint and symbol names change between KiCad versions. Always library(operation="search") first.
  3. SERIALIZE PCB ops — MCP PCB tools do load/modify/save. Parallel calls corrupt the .kicad_pcb file.
  4. VERIFY after changesdrc(operation="run") + audit(operation="all") before declaring done.

MCP tool routing table

Task MCP Tool Operation
Search parts library search
Create/edit schematic schematic create_symbol, add_wire, add_label
Build PCB from schematic build_pcb_from_schematic — (standalone)
Place footprints pcb place_footprint
Set board outline pcb set_board_outline
Add zones (copper pour) pcb add_zone
Auto-route autoroute run
Run DRC drc run
Auto-fix DRC drc autofix
Export Gerber export gerber
Export BOM export bom
3D render export render
Estimate board size estimate_board_size — (standalone)
Suggest placement suggest_placement — (standalone)
Full audit audit all

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A a109151a04c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

operating-kicad-eda is a skill published in the GitHub repository telagod/code-abyss (239 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,036 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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