EDA Bridge Standard: one way for an AI to drive every PCB tool

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ # Coverage: every standard verb on each bridge -Altium bridge 0.2.76 (the reference), KiCad bridge 1.0.65, Fusion 360 bridge 1.12.3. 54 verbs came from other bridges' proposals (tools/proposed/); they are marked *proposed*.+Altium bridge 0.2.76 (the reference), KiCad bridge 1.0.65, Fusion 360 bridge 1.12.4. 54 verbs came from other bridges' proposals (tools/proposed/); they are marked *proposed*. `exact` is the same job under the same or an equivalent name; `partial` does part of it or does it differently (`verbs/coverage.json` names what in `note`); `unsupported` answers `not_supported` for the whole job and is not counted; blank is missing. Generated by `tools/generate.py` from `verbs/coverage.json`; do not edit by hand.  | Tier | Verbs | Altium | KiCad | Fusion 360 | |---|---|---|---|---|-| **core** | 93 | 86 | 89 | 48 |-| **native** | 46 | 38 | 39 | 19 |+| **core** | 93 | 86 | 89 | 53 |+| **native** | 46 | 38 | 39 | 20 | | **checks** | 37 | 33 | 11 | 4 |-| **app** | 60 | 56 | 25 | 35 |+| **app** | 60 | 56 | 25 | 36 | | **platform** | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 |-| standard (all but platform) | 236 | 213 | 164 | 106 |+| standard (all but platform) | 236 | 213 | 164 | 113 |  ## core @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Read and edit the design. Every bridge provides these: they are how an AI sees a | `add_body` | Put a 3D body on a footprint of a PcbLib: a STEP model, or an extruded box when no step is given. It REPLACES the footprint's existing 3D bodies (a... | `altium_add_body` | `kicad_add_body` (partial) | `fusion_attach_3d_package` (partial) | | `add_models` | Attach one or more PCBLIB footprint models, parameters, comment and description to a SchLib component (Altium's several-footprints-per-symbol mechanism). | `altium_add_models` | `kicad_footprint_models` (partial) |  | | `add_symbol_art` | Draw the chip-outline artwork (the chip-thumbnailer polylines adom-symbol baked into the KiCad symbol) into a SchLib component, fitted to its body... | `altium_add_symbol_art` |  |  |-| `align_parts` *proposed* | Line parts up on a common left, right, top, bottom or centre line, or space them evenly, by courtyard box or by anchor point. One undo step, with... | `altium_align_parts` | `kicad_align_parts` |  |+| `align_parts` *proposed* | Line parts up on a common left, right, top, bottom or centre line, or space them evenly, by courtyard box or by anchor point. One undo step, with... | `altium_align_parts` | `kicad_align_parts` | `fusion_align_parts` | | `apply_silkscreen` | Land a silkscreen plan in one undo step: designators and comments moved, sized and turned (or hidden), free overlay texts and lines added (bottom texts... | `altium_apply_silkscreen` | `kicad_silk_fields_batch / kicad_silk_text_batch / kicad_silk_graphics_batch` | `fusion_apply_silkscreen` | | `board_outline` | Draw the board shape as tracks and arcs on a mechanical layer: the outline a fab house reads from the Gerbers. A board built by script has its shape but... | `altium_board_outline` | `kicad_board_outline` | `fusion_board_outline` | | `board_shape` | Redefine the CURRENT board's outline as a wMm x hMm rectangle at (x0Mm, y0Mm) by rewriting the board outline's segments. | `altium_board_shape` | `kicad_board_outline` | `fusion_board_shape` |@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ Read and edit the design. Every bridge provides these: they are how an AI sees a | `create_symbol` | Create one rectangular symbol from a pin list in a SchLib (the library is created and saved if the path does not exist) and return a proof frame. | `altium_create_symbol` | `kicad_create_symbol` |  | | `doc_params` | Read or set a sheet's document parameters: the title block (Title, DocumentNumber, Revision, DrawnBy, Author, CompanyName, ...). | `altium_doc_params` | `kicad_doc_params` (partial) |  | | `edit_footprint` *proposed* | Edit a library footprint in place: change, delete, add or renumber pads; add, replace or delete graphics on a layer; set its description, tags and... |  | `kicad_fp_edit` |  |-| `edit_parts` *proposed* | Edit placed parts: value, designator, any field (add, change, remove), do-not-populate, exclusion from the BOM or position files, mounting type and the... | `altium_edit_parts` | `kicad_edit_parts` |  |+| `edit_parts` *proposed* | Edit placed parts: value, designator, any field (add, change, remove), do-not-populate, exclusion from the BOM or position files, mounting type and the... | `altium_edit_parts` | `kicad_edit_parts` | `fusion_edit_parts` (partial) | | `find_symbol` | Find symbols (or footprints with kind:'footprint') by part of their name across libraries: the given ones, or every installed .SchLib/.PcbLib. | `altium_find_symbol` | `kicad_find_symbol` |  | | `footprint_primitives` | Geometry dump of one PLACED component: its tracks, arcs, pads (with solder and paste mask expansion in um) and texts in mils with layer ids; other primitive... | `altium_footprint_primitives` | `kicad_footprint_graphics` (partial) |  |-| `generate_body` *proposed* | Make a part's 3D body from its package family and its datasheet dimensions (chip, SOIC, QFN, QFP, BGA, SOT-23, DFN, MELF, electrolytic can, crystal, pin... |  |  |  |+| `generate_body` *proposed* | Make a part's 3D body from its package family and its datasheet dimensions (chip, SOIC, QFN, QFP, BGA, SOT-23, DFN, MELF, electrolytic can, crystal, pin... |  |  | `fusion_generate_body` | | `import_svg` *proposed* | Import SVG artwork (a logo, a label) as filled polygons on a silkscreen, copper, mask or user layer, at a position and size; curves flattened, holes kept.... |  | `kicad_import_svg` |  | | `layer_stack` | The CURRENT board's stack-up: copper layers in order with copper thickness and the dielectric under each (height, constant, material), and the total... | `altium_layer_stack` | `kicad_layer_stack` | `fusion_board_stackup` | | `layers` | The current board's layer set with ids, names, kind and whether each is displayed. | `altium_layers` | `kicad_layers` | `fusion_layers` |@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ Read and edit the design. Every bridge provides these: they are how an AI sees a | `read_schematic` | Components on the CURRENT schematic sheet (designator, library reference, comment, position, parameters) in one agent round trip. | `altium_read_schematic` | `kicad_sch_components` (partial) | `fusion_schematic` (partial) | | `read_symbol` | Read a SchLib component back: description, display-mode count, the pins of mode 0 (designator, name, electrical type), every parameter with its hidden flag,... | `altium_read_symbol` | `kicad_read_symbol` |  | | `remove_footprint` | Delete one footprint from the current PcbLib. | `altium_remove_footprint` | `kicad_remove_footprint` |  |-| `remove_graphics` *proposed* | Remove board graphics (lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, polygons, texts, dimensions) by id, or every one on a layer and of a kind. One undo step. | `altium_remove_graphics` | `kicad_remove_graphics` |  |+| `remove_graphics` *proposed* | Remove board graphics (lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, polygons, texts, dimensions) by id, or every one on a layer and of a kind. One undo step. | `altium_remove_graphics` | `kicad_remove_graphics` | `fusion_remove_graphics` | | `remove_items` | Delete specific free tracks and vias, given exactly as altium_routing_state returned them. One undo step. | `altium_remove_items` | `kicad_remove_route` (partial) | `fusion_remove_items` |-| `remove_parts` *proposed* | Remove placed parts from the board by designator, as one undo step. The library is not touched (that is remove_footprint). | `altium_remove_parts` | `kicad_remove_parts` |  |+| `remove_parts` *proposed* | Remove placed parts from the board by designator, as one undo step. The library is not touched (that is remove_footprint). | `altium_remove_parts` | `kicad_remove_parts` | `fusion_remove_parts` | | `remove_symbol` | Delete one component from the current SchLib. | `altium_remove_symbol` | `kicad_remove_symbol` |  | | `rename_footprint` | Rename a footprint in the current PcbLib. | `altium_rename_footprint` | `kicad_rename_footprint` |  | | `rename_symbol` | Rename a component (LibReference) in the current SchLib. | `altium_rename_symbol` | `kicad_rename_symbol` |  |@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Wraps the EDA tool's own feature (its DRC, ERC, Gerbers, pours, Update PCB). Eve | `pour_state` | Every polygon pour with the copper it actually poured: filled area per pour and per layer, and the pours that poured nothing. | `altium_pour_state` | `kicad_zone_state` | `fusion_pour_state` | | `project_snapshot` *proposed* | A dated copy of the project's documents into <project>/snapshots/<stamp>[-label]/, with PDFs of the schematic and the board made by the tool. |  | `kicad_project_snapshot` |  | | `remove_pours` | Delete polygon pours by net (and layer), or all of them, and the pour keepouts (cutouts) apply_pours made. Tracks and vias are untouched. | `altium_remove_pours` | `kicad_remove_zone` | `fusion_remove_pours` |-| `render_board_3d` *proposed* | Render a 3D picture of the board from one side to an image file, through the tool's own renderer, without opening a window. |  | `kicad_render_board_3d` |  |+| `render_board_3d` *proposed* | Render a 3D picture of the board from one side to an image file, through the tool's own renderer, without opening a window. |  | `kicad_render_board_3d` | `fusion_render_board_3d` | | `render_board_layers` *proposed* | Render chosen board layers to an image file without opening a window: a preset view (copper, silkscreen, solder mask, paste, outline, drill, assembly or... |  | `kicad_export_svg` (partial) | `fusion_export_board_image` (partial) | | `render_schematic` *proposed* | Render a sheet to an image without opening a window, through the tool's own plotter, and keep visual baselines: baseline set stores the image, baseline... | `altium_show_schematic` (partial) | `kicad_render_schematic` | `fusion_render_schematic` | | `replicate_layout` | Copy one channel's placement to matching channels: each target keeps its anchor part where it is and every other part takes the source's offset and rotation... | `altium_replicate_layout` | `kicad_replicate_layout` |  |@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Engineering computed from the board model, not by the tool: one shared engine, s | `place_decoupling` *proposed* | Plan positions for decoupling capacitors beside an IC's power pins (each cap just outside the courtyard, its power pad facing the pin), answered as... |  | `kicad_place_decoupling` |  | | `placement_check` | Review the placement before routing: parts whose courtyards (pads and body, grown by a margin) overlap on the same side, parts off the board or over its... | `altium_placement_check` | `kicad_placement_validate / kicad_score_placement` (partial) |  | | `plan_fanout` *proposed* | Plan the fanout of a BGA or QFN/QFP: the pad pitch, dogbone or via-in-pad per pad, the escape layer, surface stubs for the outer ring and a via grid for an... |  | `kicad_plan_fanout` |  |-| `plan_route` *proposed* | Plan a path for one net between two pads without changing the board: a grid search around the existing copper that keeps the clearance rules, on the allowed... |  |  | `fusion_plan_route` |+| `plan_route` *proposed* | Plan a path for one net between two pads without changing the board: a grid search around the existing copper that keeps the clearance rules, on the allowed... |  |  | `fusion_plan_route` (partial) | | `read_sheet_file` | Read a schematic sheet straight from its .SchDoc file, without Altium (it need not be installed or running): every part with its designator, library... | `altium_read_sheet_file` |  | `fusion_read_sheet_file` | | `return_path` | Where signal tracks lose their reference: for every signal net, the length of track on each layer that runs over no pour or plane copper on either... | `altium_return_path` |  |  | | `review_board` | Design-review checks (14) over one board read; schematic checks with includeSchematic. | `altium_review_board` | `kicad_lint_board` (partial) |  |@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `install_receipt` | The last bundle install's full receipt (proof frame included), for a client whose install call outlived ab's budget. | `altium_install_receipt` |  |  | | `instances` | Every running Altium (Designer + Designer Develop can run together). | `altium_instances` |  |  | | `launch` | Start Altium (the newest numbered install, or the one install names) and wait for its main window, then hand the user's own window back. Answers... | `altium_launch` | `kicad_launch` | `fusion_start` |-| `library_views` *proposed* | Pictures of library parts for review, each as an image file: the schematic symbol, the footprint (pads and layers), the 3D body seated on the footprint, and... |  |  |  |+| `library_views` *proposed* | Pictures of library parts for review, each as an image file: the schematic symbol, the footprint (pads and layers), the 3D body seated on the footprint, and... |  |  | `fusion_library_views` | | `license` | Drive the License Management page (UIA first - no cursor, no foreground). | `altium_license` |  |  | | `license_status` | Plain-language answer to 'what Altium licence am I on?': the state from the window title plus a capture of the License Management page. | `altium_license_status` |  | `fusion_license_status` | | `list_commands` | Search Altium's process-launcher catalog (about 1,100 Server:Command entries parsed from the install's System/*.rcs files) by text and/or server. | `altium_list_commands` |  | `fusion_list_commands` |

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@  "proposed": 54,  "compared": {   "kicad": "1.0.65",-  "fusion360": "1.12.3"+  "fusion360": "1.12.4"  },  "tiers": {   "core": "Read and edit the design. Every bridge provides these: they are how an AI sees and changes a board.",@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_align_parts",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_align_parts",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "apply_silkscreen",@@ -318,7 +321,11 @@     "verb": "kicad_edit_parts",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_edit_parts",+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "value, designator, fields and lock; dnp, excludeFromBom, excludeFromPos and mount refused (Fusion keeps them in assembly variants)"+   }   },   {    "name": "find_symbol",@@ -354,7 +361,10 @@    "source": "proposed",    "altium": null,    "kicad": null,-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_generate_body",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "import_svg",@@ -719,7 +729,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_remove_graphics",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_remove_graphics",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "remove_items",@@ -750,7 +763,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_remove_parts",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_remove_parts",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "remove_symbol",@@ -1887,7 +1903,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_render_board_3d",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_render_board_3d",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "render_board_layers",@@ -2424,7 +2443,8 @@    "kicad": null,    "fusion360": {     "verb": "fusion_plan_route",-    "match": "exact"+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "two-layer boards only: a four-layer board is refused with unsupported_board"    }   },   {@@ -2889,7 +2909,10 @@    "source": "proposed",    "altium": null,    "kicad": null,-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_library_views",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "license",