Kicad component

Skill AvatarSD/KiSkill/skills/kicad-component

Agent skills + headless Python engine giving an AI coding agent full control of KiCad — edit, verify, review & fabricate schematics and PCBs, no GUI.

Install

npx -y skills add AvatarSD/KiSkill --skill kicad-component

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Find, fetch, and register KiCad components: search local/official symbol and footprint libraries, download missing parts from the internet (easyeda2kicad by LCSC id, SnapEDA/UltraLibrarian zips), and register them in project lib tables. Use when a schematic needs a part that is not already in the project.

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Component sourcing & indexing

Local search order

Project libs (sym-lib-table next to .kicad_pro, ${KIPRJMOD} URIs).
Official flatpak libs: ~/.local/share/flatpak/runtime/org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Symbols/x86_64/stable/active/files/symbols/*.kicad_sym (footprints idem, .../Library.Footprints/.../footprints/*.pretty). Grep symbol names: grep -l '(symbol "NAME' *.kicad_sym then extract the balanced block with kicad_lib.sexp.
Index (implemented): kx find dual comparator → ranked lib_id hits with description/keywords/pins. First run kx index [PROJECT_LIB_DIR] (22k official symbols ≈ 20 s once; mtime-incremental ≈ 0.1 s after). DB: ~/.cache/kx_scratch/symbols.sqlite; extends children inherit base description/keywords so families are searchable.

Internet fetch

LCSC/JLC part known (implemented, preferred): kx fetch C25804 /path/to/project → symbol + footprint + 3D (wrl+step) in PROJECT/libs/ AND both lib tables registered (${KIPRJMOD} URIs), idempotent. Binary lives in the repo .venv (PEP 668 box); fetch needs real network (sandbox blocks DNS — run unsandboxed). v1.0.1 quirk handled: --project-relative resolves against CWD, so kx runs it from the project dir.
SnapEDA/UltraLibrarian zip (implemented; user downloads, no open API): kx import-zip part.zip /path/to/project → libs/<name>.kicad_sym + .pretty + tables; legacy .lib auto-upgraded via kicad-cli sym upgrade.
Always sanity-check fetched footprints visually: render via kicad-cli pcb export svg on a scratch board, compare against the datasheet land pattern. Internet footprints are guilty until proven.

Registration

Append to project sym-lib-table: (lib (name "x")(type "KiCad") (uri "${KIPRJMOD}/x.kicad_sym")(options "")(descr "")) — same shape for fp-lib-table with a .pretty dir URI. Missing tables: create them.