Adom Desktop - KiCad Bridge
Public Made by Adomby adom
Reference implementation of the KiCad bridge — multi-instance Python server, forward path via kicad-cli, reverse path via in-process plugin. Most complex of the three bundled bridges.
Skills
The skills this repo ships, by tier, each with a quick health read. Install the user skills with:
adom-wiki skills install adom/adom-desktop-kicad-bridgedev-skills/ or publish-skills/, so a contributor (or their AI) has no in-repo guide to build, debug, or publish it. Consider adding them; they stay source-only and never ship in the tarball.No description in this skill's frontmatter.
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DEVELOPER-only skill (user-invocable:false — installed for maintainers, never offered to everyday users). Building/debugging the Adom Desktop KiCad bridge: architecture, the 4 control surfaces, how to add a verb, and every fresh-machine gotcha this bridge has hit. Trigger words — kicad bridge dev, edit kicad bridge, add kicad verb, kicad bridge architecture, debug kicad bridge, kicad control surfaces, kicad fresh machine.
DEVELOPER-only PUBLISH skill (user-invocable:false — for maintainers, never offered to everyday users). The exact recipe to ship a new version of the Adom Desktop KiCad bridge to wiki.adom.inc: version lockstep, the zip build, adom-wiki repo push + release create, the skills pkg, pushing to a target AD, and verify steps. Trigger words — publish kicad bridge, release kicad bridge, ship kicad bridge, bump kicad bridge, kicad bridge manifest, kicad bridge pkg.
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Run a guided KiCad tour on the user's laptop via adom-desktop — install a custom symbol library, walk the user through Symbol Editor → Footprint Editor → Schematic Editor → PCB Editor → 3D Viewer, then export gerbers. Two prebuilt packs ship under plugins/kicad/tour-pack/ (single resistor, fast) and plugins/kicad/tour-pack-rp2040/ (RP2040 breakout board, comprehensive). Trigger words — kicad tour, walk me through kicad, kicad demo, show me kicad, rp2040 breakout, resistor demo, kicad showcase, end-to-end kicad, send symbol and footprint, kicad export gerbers, gerbers for jlcpcb, gerbers for instapcb, kicad 3d board, kicad design walkthrough.
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How to build, debug, and test this app. Source-only (dev-skills/), never shipped in the tarball.
No publish skills in this repo.
The app-to-wiki publish glue. Source-only (publish-skills/), never shipped in the tarball.
Health: the size chip is green when right-sized, yellow when getting long, red when the model likely skims it. A green check is a passed preamble/structure signal; an amber mark is a gentle nudge, not a hard failure.