kicad-gen SKILL.md skillA
kicad-gen from mattpainter701/kicad_automations is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mattpainter701/kicad_automations/kicad-gen@git:20260710.9da1c93Pins git:20260710.9da1c93 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mattpainter701/kicad_automations
- Path
project-skills/kicad-gen/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260710.9da1c93, committed Jul 10, 2026
- Size
- 3,464 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Generate KiCad schematics from a Circuit Weaver design.yaml or a project's own checked-in generator. Use for large, repetitive, or machine-synchronized designs. Prefer the Circuit Weaver CLI unless the project actually contains and documents its own generation scripts.
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
## When to Use
- BGA/QFN devices with 100+ pins -- manual placement is error-prone
- Multi-sheet designs where repetitive structure can be scripted
- Pin maps derived from datasheet tables or CSV (auto-assign ball-to-net)
- Schematic must stay synchronized with a separate spec or pin database
## Workflow
```
1. Define components and pin maps in design.yaml
2. Generate sheets -> circuit-weaver generate
3. Require real ERC -> circuit-weaver generate --require-kicad
4. Review in KiCad -> open .kicad_sch files, run Update PCB from Schematic
```
Give each block a stable unique `id` and functional `section`. Circuit Weaver
preserves explicit sections as separate sheets, keeps generated support parts
with their owning block, and disambiguates sanitized sheet filenames. Read the
root and child paths from `artifact_manifest.json`; never guess `main.kicad_sch`.
## Project-Specific Setup
**Spec:** `${SPEC_PATH}`
**Output directory:** `${OUTPUT_DIR}`
If a project supplies custom scripts, record their checked-in paths here. Do not
invoke `scripts/generate_schematics.py` or `scripts/pin_maps.py` unless those
files exist in the current project.
Edit this file to record:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mattpainter701/kicad_automations/kicad-gen@sha256:66603420f5aade73The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.9da1c93, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 10, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3464 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
mattpainter701/kicad_automations · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nqjmsq4zypr26paq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mattpainter701/kicad_automations/kicad-gen GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/66603420f5aade738abb01c3128964c8cb3b7794e21e93eabbec4e70ffed994d
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.