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kicad-pcb-review from oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro/kicad-pcb-review@git:20260807.26681ed

Pins git:20260807.26681ed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro
Path: integrations/claude-code/kicad-pcb-review-skill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260807.26681ed, committed Aug 7, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 6, 2026
Size: 2,339 bytes
Repository stars: 145
License: MIT

Use this skill when reviewing, fixing, validating, or preparing KiCad PCB projects with the kicad MCP server.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# KiCad PCB Review Skill

Use this skill for KiCad projects, schematic review, PCB layout review, DRC/ERC, DFM, manufacturing exports, BOM, pick-and-place, stackup, SI/PI/EMC checks, and release package preparation.

## Required Behavior

1. **First verify the MCP server:**
   - Call `kicad_get_project_info`
   - Call `project_quality_gate`
   - Inspect KiCad version and project paths

2. **Never edit before reading** the current schematic and PCB state.

3. **For design changes:**
   - Explain proposed change
   - Use `kicad_set_project` to select the KiCad project instead of shell `cd` when possible
   - Use dry-run if available
   - Ask for confirmation before destructive/write tools
   - Prefer dedicated MCP operations over Bash/Python file rewriting; use `pcb_delete_items` / `pcb_delete_object` for PCB object removal and `run_drc` for DRC verification
   - If the required MCP operation is not visible in the active profile/mode, stop and state which supported profile/mode is required. Do not silently fall back to `sed`, regex-based Python, or direct `.kicad_pcb` / `.kicad_sch` mutation

4. **After any edit:**
   - Run ERC
   - Run DRC
   - Run relevant DFM checks
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro/kicad-pcb-review@sha256:8dbbaa67587bef47

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.26681ed, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ebm3xhskctbh6lt4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ebm3xhskctbh6lt4)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 6, 2026 and Aug 7, 2026, about one every 62 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260807.26681ed latest	2026-08-07	26681ed	2,339 B	A	view · diff
git:20260606.1aab6cf	2026-06-06	1aab6cf	1,769 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2339 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro · 145 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ebm3xhskctbh6lt4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaslananka/kicad-mcp-pro/kicad-pcb-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8dbbaa67587bef47b90f2dc40b5175e9de962b47d8aa0627abcb9cb72eacec9a

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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