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name: KiCAD PCB description: Control KiCAD for electronic circuit design, schematic creation, and PCB layout operations

KiCAD PCB Skill

Interact with KiCAD for electronic circuit design, schematic manipulation, and PCB layout.

Capabilities

• Create and manage KiCAD projects
• Add components to schematics
• Connect components with wires/traces
• Search symbol libraries
• Manage PCB layouts
• Generate netlists and BOMs

Tool Functions

• create_project: Create new KiCAD project
• add_component: Add component to schematic
• connect_pins: Wire components together
• search_library: Find components in libraries
• generate_netlist: Create netlist from schematic
• export_bom: Generate bill of materials

Prerequisites

KiCAD installed with Python API access.