Adom Bridge (macOS)
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Adom Bridge is a small operating system for AI on your Mac: it gives an AI real hands on your native desktop, including your signed-in browser, KiCad, Fusion 360, the shell, files, windows and screenshots. It provisions its own Node and Python so bridges run without touching your setup, and it talks straight to your machine. It ships with Adom Hydrogen and installs standalone too, so if you drive your Mac with Claude Desktop or another AI, this is what gives that AI hands.
kicad_upgrade on macOS fails with NameError: name 'subprocess' is not defined; two catalogued verbs answer Unknown app: desktop (moved from kicad-bridge#108)
Moved from adom/kicad-bridge#108 (Kyle Bergstedt, macOS, Apple silicon, adom-bridge-macos 1.9.209, no KiCad installed). Two items that belong to the macOS Adom Bridge, verbatim from that report.
1. kicad_upgrade fails with a Python NameError. kicad_readiness and kicad_list_versions answer host_app_not_installed with a hint that says "offer to install it, then run kicad_upgrade '{}' (installs the official build from scratch: ... macOS: universal DMG into /Applications/KiCad, de-quarantined)". Running it:
{"durationMs": 71363, "error": "Internal error: name 'subprocess' is not defined", "status": "error", "success": false}
Reproduced twice (71 s and 80 s), so it gets as far as a download before the line that needs subprocess. A missing import subprocess in the macOS branch of the handler, most likely.
Why it is filed here and not on the KiCad Bridge: that hint text and a macOS DMG install path have never existed in the KiCad Bridge repository (checked the tree and the whole git history), and the KiCad Bridge's own kicad_upgrade refuses every non-Windows platform with unsupported_platform before doing anything. The verb Kyle reached is the macOS bridge's own KiCad support. If that is wrong and the Mac runs a KiCad Bridge build I do not know about, say which one and I will take it back.
Suggested fix, from the report: add the import, and a smoke test on a runner without KiCad, since the bug is invisible wherever KiCad is already installed.
2. Two catalogued verbs answer "Unknown app: desktop" on this macOS bridge: request_shell_approval ({"reason":..., "wait":true, "timeoutSec":360}) and bridge_list ({}), both listed in the commands catalog with full argument docs. If they are Windows-line verbs, the catalog served to a macOS client should not advertise them.
Related: the KiCad Bridge's public manifest currently offers a Windows-only native zip with no platform declaration; I am adding platforms to it so a macOS installer can refuse it cleanly instead of installing something that cannot run.