An open-source program for designing electronic circuits and printed circuit boards, or PCBs. It includes schematic drawing, board layout, component libraries, 3D viewing, simulation, and manufacturing-file export.

Creating schematics, placing and routing PCB components, checking electrical and layout rules, viewing boards in 3D, managing bills of materials, and exporting Gerber files.

It keeps circuit diagrams, board layouts, design checks, and production files in one tool instead of separate applications.

kicad — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by znlgis/opengis-skills

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 znlgis/opengis-skills --skill kicad

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/znlgis/opengis-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,393 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Privilege Escalation · line 52
Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
medium Privilege Escalation · line 53
Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.

How audits are shown

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	$0.00114	$0.03393
Opus 5.5	$0.00046	$0.01357
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00023	$0.00679
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00339

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4def1a80b89a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

kicad scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-10.0-releases

cad/kicad/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

项目地址： https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad

官网： https://www.kicad.org/

官方文档： https://docs.kicad.org/

API（Python）： https://docs.kicad.org/doxygen-python/

许可证： GPL-3.0+

包管理器： kicad（Ubuntu PPA ppa:kicad/kicad-10.0-releases / brew install --cask kicad / Windows 安装包，最新 10.0.7 截至 2026-10）

版本： 10.0.7（GitHub 镜像 Release 10.0.7，2026-10-16；版本号 10.99.0 是下一大版本 11.0 的开发版）

概述

KiCad 主要程序：

程序	用途
KiCad（项目管理）	项目入口
Eeschema	原理图编辑
Symbol Editor	元件符号库
Pcbnew	PCB 布局布线
Footprint Editor	封装库
3D Viewer	3D 预览
GerbView	Gerber 浏览
BOM 工具	物料清单
CLI（KiCad 7+）	自动化（`kicad-cli`）

当前稳定线为 10.0.x（最新 10.0.7，见文首版本行）。现代版本相对 5.x 的关键变化：

文件格式改为 S-expression（.kicad_sch / .kicad_pcb / .kicad_pro），旧 .lib / .mod 需导入
官方 CLI kicad-cli（7.0 起）替代旧 pcbnew_do 脚本，可无头导出制造文件
Python pcbnew 模块持续演进：7.0 起坐标类型由 wxPoint 换成 VECTOR2I，配 pcbnew.VECTOR2I_MM(x, y) / pcbnew.FromMM(v) 使用
支持 IPC-2581 / ODB++ 等制造输出，DRC 规则支持差分对与长度匹配

安装

# Linux
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:kicad/kicad-10.0-releases
sudo apt install kicad

# macOS
brew install --cask kicad

# Windows: 安装包

库（Symbols/Footprints/3D Models）随主程序安装；亦可单独 kicad-symbols / kicad-footprints / kicad-packages3D 仓库 git 跟踪。

核心 API

原理图（Eeschema）要点

元件：A 添加；R/L/C 等快捷键
连线：W Wire、B Bus
注释：Tools → Annotate Schematic
电气规则：ERC（菜单 Inspect → ERC）
分页：File → Schematic Setup → Page Settings；分页通过 Hierarchical Sheet
总线展开：{NET[0..7]}

PCB（Pcbnew）要点

板框：Edge.Cuts 层用 Polygon 或 Line 画
摆件：拖动 / 旋转 / 翻面 (F)
走线：X 起线、V 通孔 / 切层
网络规则：File → Board Setup → Net Classes
覆铜：Add Filled Zone，绑定 GND/PWR
DRC：Inspect → Design Rules Checker
推走线：菜单 Route → Interactive Router
长度调谐：Route → Tune Length

库管理

全局库：Preferences → Manage Symbol/Footprint Libraries（按用户/项目级别）
推荐项目级库：在项目目录新建 lib/ 放 .kicad_sym / .pretty/
KiCad 5.x 旧 .lib / .mod 可通过 Symbol Library Editor 导入

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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.

9d ago Changed · +15 lines · +68 tokens per session 4def1a80b89a
22d ago Changed · +2 lines 1cb0810a1722
1mo ago Changed c47fd596a741
1mo ago Changed 8b283b998194
2mo ago Changed 703c7d69fdfd
2mo ago First seen · 246 lines · 46 tokens per session scan B 72572068cae5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kicad is a skill published in the GitHub repository znlgis/opengis-skills (76 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 3,393 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Languages Python eda electronics gerber pcb schematic

kicad next to 6 skills from other repositories
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kicadznlgis/opengis-skills	Skill	76	10d ago	MIT	B	114	Claude Code, Codex
zaptrace-benchmark-evaluationoaslananka/zaptrace	Skill	0	4d ago	none	A	27	Claude Code
zaptrace-design-validationoaslananka/zaptrace	Skill	0	4d ago	none	A	31	Claude Code
zaptrace-proof-pack-reviewoaslananka/zaptrace	Skill	0	4d ago	none	A	29	Claude Code
kicad-jlcpcb-workflowBeckhamLabsLLC/kicad-jlcpcb	Skill	26	3d ago	MIT	A	140	Claude Code
data-analysisfurkangonel/cowrangler	Skill	1	1mo ago	MIT	A	15	Claude Code, Codex
pennylaneK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills	Skill	56k	4d ago	MIT	A	74	Claude Code

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