Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD-MCP. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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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 | $0.00240 | $0.01318 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00120 | $0.00659 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00048 | $0.00264 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00132 |
Grade A, and why
setup-openroad-mcp 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Set Up OpenROAD MCP
This skill installs and configures the OpenROAD MCP server, a Model Context Protocol server that connects an AI assistant to the OpenROAD physical-design tools and OpenROAD-flow-scripts (ORFS).
The published server runs via npx — there is no need to clone this repo for
normal use. Configuration is just: check prerequisites → register the server with
the MCP client → verify the connection.
Step 1: Check prerequisites
Run these checks and report what's missing before touching any config.
Node.js 22+ (required — runs the npx distribution):
node --version
If it's older than v22 or missing, install Node 22+ (via the official installer,
nvm, or your package manager) before continuing.
OpenROAD in PATH (required — the actual layout engine):
command -v openroad && openroad -version
If openroad is not found, it must be installed and on PATH. Point the user to
the OpenROAD build guide.
Note the directory from command -v openroad — you may need it in Step 2 for
GUI-launched clients that don't inherit a login shell PATH.
OpenROAD-flow-scripts / ORFS (optional — enables full RTL-to-GDS flows and report images):
ls "${ORFS_FLOW_PATH:-$HOME/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow}" 2>/dev/null \
&& echo "ORFS found" || echo "ORFS not found (optional)"
ORFS_FLOW_PATH defaults to ~/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/flow. If ORFS lives
elsewhere, note the path for Step 2. See the
ORFS build guide.
Step 2: Register the server with the MCP client
Ask the user which MCP client they use if it's not obvious. The per-client configuration snippets and file locations are maintained as a single source of truth in the README's "Supported MCP Clients" section. Read that section, then apply the snippet for the client the user named (it covers Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cline / Roo Code, Continue / PearAI, Zed, and Docker).
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 121 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A 95eea2806104
setup-openroad-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD-MCP (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 240 tokens to every session and 1,318 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-09-04.
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