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Schematics, PCB layout and part selection with an agent in the loop, in tools such as KiCad and Altium.
The most active tools first.
17 d ago
HeyPCB's MCP server connects Claude Code, Codex or Cursor to its hosted KiCad board-design service. An agent can ask HeyPCB to build the whole board with build_board, or add parts and connections itself and call check_board until each finding is fixed. A local npm package adds KiCad project upload and Gerber export. The vendor README shows no fabricated board.
24 d ago
TraceMaker routes and places KiCad 9 and 10 boards and judges the result with KiCad's own design-rule check. Two agent skills prepare a board and sign off a route, and an experimental session mode exposes the router over MCP. The README reports 72.5% of PCBench tier B boards routed with no added KiCad errors, against 50% for Freerouting.
3 mo ago
Konnect plugs into KiCad 10 as a single Rust binary and exposes PCB design tools to Claude and other MCP clients. Its 228 tools in 21 on-demand toolsets cover schematic capture, placement, routing, ERC and DRC, JLCPCB part search and manufacturing export. It succeeds the author's KiCAD-MCP-Server and is marked beta, with Windows the most tested platform.
51 d ago
pcb-skill takes Claude Code or Codex desktop from a hardware idea through schematic, sourcing and EasyEDA Pro layout to a staged PCB order. Each phase ends at a gate, and the agent stops at the pre-payment page. The README's case-study board, an ESP32-P4 music player, was staged for order but not fabricated or powered.
6 mo ago
Wrench Board reads a device's schematic PDF and boardview and runs a Claude Opus diagnostic agent beside a microsoldering technician. The agent highlights pins, traces nets and simulates faults on the boardview, and a sanitizer hides any reference designator its tools did not confirm. The README says it placed second at Anthropic's Opus 4.7 hackathon in April.
6 mo ago
eda-agent connects Claude Code or another MCP client to the design open in Altium Designer, with KiCad and EasyEDA Pro as optional backends. On Altium it exposes about 450 tools for schematic, PCB and library work, including batch edits and a 31-check lint sweep. The README marks it experimental: some tools can crash Altium's scripting engine.
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10 d ago
GoFly says an AI agent designed a six-layer STM32F405 flight controller in EasyEDA Pro through easyeda-agent, then ordered it from JLCPCB with SMT assembly. The post says the agent then flashed the board over USB and ran basic function tests. The design keeps only the MCU, gyroscope and accelerometer, and testing stayed on the desk.
48 d ago
A Reddit user had Claude Fable 5 design an RP2350 e-ink board through a KiCad MCP server, allowing no manual edits. Wccftech reports several rounds to fix wrong part picks. Five assembled boards cost 130 euros plus $450 in API credits, and Claude Opus 5 wrote the firmware. Photos show the board driving its 1.54-inch display.
15 d ago
JLCPCB's guide shows Claude Code designing a 5 A XL4015 buck converter in KiCad 10 through the kicad-mcp-pro server. Claude built a 16-net schematic and routed a 63 by 33 mm board with an A* router it wrote in Python. A netlist check caught an ISENSE to ISET short that ERC only warned about. The guide says nothing was fabricated.
16 d ago
A JLCPCB blog author had Claude Code with Opus 5.5 rebuild a CH32V006 component tester in EasyEDA Pro from a PDF schematic. Working through a local API bridge, Claude swapped 8 out-of-stock parts, placed 47 parts and routed the 2-layer board with Freerouting to zero DRC errors. The post says the board was not fabricated or visually reviewed.
2 mo ago
Tony Huang built OpenMicroKbd, an open recreation of OpenAI's Codex Micro macropad on an STM32F072, whose schematic an AI agent wrote in CoHDL. Quilter.ai did the layout, an agent helped with the Rust firmware, and Huang had the boards fabbed and finished the assembly by hand. The launch post has photos of the assembled board and printed case.
2 mo ago
Iluvatar Labs had its research agent, Marvin, route AgentPad13, a two-layer RP2040 macropad modeled on OpenAI's Codex Micro. Marvin reached zero unrouted connections and zero DRC errors; FreeRouting and Quilter had left 18 and 19 unrouted. It also built and simulated the QMK firmware. Photos show the lit prototype.
45 d ago
JLCPCB's blog documents GPT-6 Astra designing a 44 x 34 mm two-layer TPA3116D2 stereo amplifier board in KiCad 10. Starting from datasheets and a brief, it ended with zero ERC, DRC and parity errors, with some check categories disabled. The page says the routed layout was reused from an earlier task. The board was never fabricated.
51 d ago
Copperhead launched on Hacker News as an agentic circuit-board design tool that compiles designs to KiCad files and manufacturing outputs. The founder writes that it works on its own hardware representation instead of editing KiCad directly. The thread drew 250 points. No board made with Copperhead was shown, and assembled-board ordering is still planned.
55 d ago
The atopile team published EEBench, a benchmark that grades agents on 13 circuit-design tasks written in atopile. The harness builds each design and runs SPICE checks at worst-case tolerance corners. The post says Claude Opus 5 led V1 at 61.6%. One failed design used a 22 uF capacitor that gave about 11.4 uF under bias. V1 is simulation only.
2 mo ago
Two Markdown files in a CC0 repo guide Claude Code from a breadboard-proven Arduino circuit to a fabricated KiCad board. CLAUDE.md points the agent at a playbook in which it checks each part, writes one Python generator for schematic and board, and clears ERC and DRC. The author says every rule came from boards that shipped.
2 mo ago
Flux added a public MCP server to its PCB design tool in its summer update. External agents such as Claude, Cursor and Codex can query a board's live context and drive design changes. The post gives firmware headers generated from actual pin assignments and net names as one use. The update also adds a lower-cost chat mode.
2 mo ago
Dave Vandenbout ran his datasheet-to-symbol-lib Claude skill on 100 parts with 20 or more pins and diffed the results against KiCad's stock symbols. With every difference checked against the datasheet, generated symbols had a 2.77% pin error rate and the library 21.92%. The README notes that the same agent generated the symbols and judged both sides.
3 mo ago
CODEX KEYBORED is a parody of the Codex Micro macropad, designed through prompts alone from Fusion 360 mechanics to a six-layer KiCad board. The repository adds STM32F072 USB HID firmware, a factory test and JLC quotes captured on 17 July. The README does not name the agent, and says no fabricated board has been brought up.
3 mo ago
Cadence announced the AuraStack AI Super Agent, an agentic platform in Allegro AI Studio for PCB and advanced packaging design. It coordinates domain agents from system planning through place and route, manufacturability checks and multiphysics signoff, on the same architecture as Cadence's ChipStack agent. Cadence says it will be available in 2026 and cites 2X faster time to market.
3 mo ago
Nathan House had an AI assistant with KiCad 10 design a coin-cell LED blinker badge. It picked an NE555 that needs 4.5 V, put a via 0.0285 mm from a pad, broke courtyard rules and reported a 150.4% duty cycle. The article says datasheet checks, DRC and an analytic check caught each one before any board was ordered.
7 mo ago
AllSpice published a paper on DRCY, a multi-agent LLM system that checks schematic connections pin by pin against component datasheets. It runs as a CI/CD action when an engineer submits a design review on AllSpice Hub and posts inline comments. A consensus agent reconciles repeated runs. The authors say it runs in production; the paper gives no accuracy figures.
