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 1.0.67, Fusion 360 bridge 1.12.7. 54 verbs came from other bridges' proposals (tools/proposed/); they are marked *proposed*.+Altium bridge 0.2.77 (the reference), KiCad bridge 1.0.67, Fusion 360 bridge 1.12.7. 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 | 54 |-| **native** | 46 | 38 | 41 | 24 |+| **core** | 93 | 90 | 89 | 54 |+| **native** | 46 | 43 | 41 | 24 | | **checks** | 37 | 33 | 24 | 9 |-| **app** | 60 | 56 | 25 | 36 |+| **app** | 60 | 60 | 25 | 36 | | **platform** | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 |-| standard (all but platform) | 236 | 213 | 179 | 123 |+| standard (all but platform) | 236 | 226 | 179 | 123 |  ## core @@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ Read and edit the design. Every bridge provides these: they are how an AI sees a | `place_on_sch` | Place one symbol, or a ';' list of symbols, from the open SchLib on ONE new sheet (sheet sized FROM the measured parts: 500 mil gaps, 600 mil margins, A4... | `altium_place_on_sch` | `kicad_place_on_sch` |  | | `place_vias` | Place vias (through, top to bottom). One undo step, read back. | `altium_place_vias` | `kicad_add_via` | `fusion_place_vias` | | `plate_vias` | Make every drilled pad in a PcbLib a plated MULTI-LAYER pad (all footprints, or footprintName). adom-lbr writes heatsink vias as pads with a hole; Altium... | `altium_plate_vias` |  |  |-| `project_create` *proposed* | Create a new project folder with a project file, an empty schematic and an empty board (2 to 32 copper layers), with a title and text variables. |  | `kicad_project_create` |  |-| `project_info` *proposed* | A project at a glance: name, files with sizes and dates, the sheet tree, the board (layers, parts, nets, size), text variables, net classes, last change,... |  | `kicad_project_info` |  |-| `project_rename` *proposed* | Rename a project: the project file, the root sheet, the board and the tool's side files, with the references inside them updated. Refused while the tool has... |  | `kicad_project_rename` |  |+| `project_create` *proposed* | Create a new project folder with a project file, an empty schematic and an empty board (2 to 32 copper layers), with a title and text variables. | `altium_project_create` | `kicad_project_create` |  |+| `project_info` *proposed* | A project at a glance: name, files with sizes and dates, the sheet tree, the board (layers, parts, nets, size), text variables, net classes, last change,... | `altium_project_info` | `kicad_project_info` |  |+| `project_rename` *proposed* | Rename a project: the project file, the root sheet, the board and the tool's side files, with the references inside them updated. Refused while the tool has... | `altium_project_rename` | `kicad_project_rename` |  | | `read_board` | ONE round trip: components, nets, layers, copper, rules, occupancy, outline. | `altium_read_board` | `kicad_board_summary` (partial) | `fusion_board_info / fusion_get_design_info` (partial) |-| `read_footprint` *proposed* | Every detail of one library footprint: pads (number, type, shape, position, size, drill, layers), the layers it uses, its courtyard box, graphics per layer,... |  | `kicad_read_footprint` | `fusion_read_footprint` |+| `read_footprint` *proposed* | Every detail of one library footprint: pads (number, type, shape, position, size, drill, layers), the layers it uses, its courtyard box, graphics per layer,... | `altium_read_footprint` | `kicad_read_footprint` | `fusion_read_footprint` | | `read_rules` | Every design rule on the current board, flat, disabled ones included: name, kind ordinal, enabled, priority, both scope expressions, comment, and Altium's... | `altium_read_rules` | `kicad_list_design_rules` | `fusion_read_rules` | | `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` |  |@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Wraps the EDA tool's own feature (its DRC, ERC, Gerbers, pours, Update PCB). Eve | `cleanup_libs` | Remove the factory-default stray every fresh library carries: Component_1 from the current SchLib and an empty (no pads) PCBComponent_1 from the current PcbLib. | `altium_cleanup_libs` |  |  | | `compile` | Compile a project and return Altium's Messages panel (ERC + connectivity) with counts by class. With no path it compiles Altium's bundled example project. | `altium_compile` | `kicad_compile` |  | | `component_classes` | List, make or remove component classes on the board, each optionally with a room: a placement area that keeps its parts together (fitted around the parts or... | `altium_component_classes` |  |  |-| `create_part_project` *proposed* | Generate a small real project (schematic and board) around one library part, so the part can be shown and tested in every view: schematic, 2D board and 3D... |  | `kicad_make_part_project` (partial) |  |+| `create_part_project` *proposed* | Generate a small real project (schematic and board) around one library part, so the part can be shown and tested in every view: schematic, 2D board and 3D... | `altium_create_part_project` | `kicad_make_part_project` (partial) |  | | `diff_pairs` | Differential pairs on the current board: list them, define one from two nets (replacing a pair of that name), or remove one. Altium's differential-pair... | `altium_diff_pairs` | `kicad_diff_pairs` (partial) |  | | `export_bom` | Bill of materials export: altium_run_outjob with the assembly OutJob and the 'Folder Structure' medium as defaults. | `altium_export_bom` | `kicad_export_bom_csv` (partial) | `fusion_export_bom / fusion_board_bom` | | `export_dxf` *proposed* | Export chosen board layers to DXF, one file per layer (the outline, panel drawings, stencils, enclosure work). |  | `kicad_export_dxf` | `fusion_export_dxf` |@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Wraps the EDA tool's own feature (its DRC, ERC, Gerbers, pours, Update PCB). Eve | `export_gerber` | Gerber/drill export: altium_run_outjob with the fabrication OutJob and the 'Folder Structure' medium as defaults. | `altium_export_gerber` | `kicad_export_gerber` | `fusion_export_gerbers` | | `export_ipc2581` *proposed* | Export the board as IPC-2581: one XML file with copper, drill, stack-up, netlist and BOM, through the tool's own exporter. | `altium_export_ipc2581` | `kicad_export_ipc2581` | `fusion_export_ipc2581` (partial) | | `export_ipc356` *proposed* | Export the IPC-D-356 netlist of the board, for bare-board electrical test (flying probe or bed of nails). |  | `kicad_export_ipc356` | `fusion_export_ipc356` |-| `export_library_part` *proposed* | Export one library part into its own small library files: a symbol library with only its symbol, a footprint library with only its footprint, and its 3D... |  | `kicad_export_part` (partial) |  |+| `export_library_part` *proposed* | Export one library part into its own small library files: a symbol library with only its symbol, a footprint library with only its footprint, and its 3D... | `altium_export_library_part` | `kicad_export_part` (partial) |  | | `export_manufacturing` | A project's manufacturing set in one call: Gerbers, NC drill, pick and place (CSV, mm) and the BOM, from an OutJob the bridge writes beside the project... | `altium_export_manufacturing` | `kicad_export_gerber / kicad_export_pos` (partial) | `fusion_export_gerbers / fusion_export_cpl / fusion_export_bom` (partial) | | `export_odb` *proposed* | Export the board as ODB++ (copper, drill, stack-up, netlist and parts in one archive) through the tool's own exporter. | `altium_export_odb` | `kicad_export_odb` | `fusion_export_odb` | | `export_pdf` | Every sheet of a project as one PDF, plus on request the board's composite print, Altium's assembly drawings (top and bottom, designators on the parts) and... | `altium_export_pdf` | `kicad_export_pdf` |  |@@ -148,10 +148,10 @@ Wraps the EDA tool's own feature (its DRC, ERC, Gerbers, pours, Update PCB). Eve | `panelize` | Step and repeat a board into a manufacturing panel: a new .PcbDoc holding Altium's own embedded board array of the board (rows x cols), with rails, the... | `altium_panelize` | `kicad_panelize` (partial) |  | | `pcb_report` | Numbers instead of pixels: for a PcbLib, every footprint's pads, pad bounding box, primitive census and 3D bodies; for a board, outline, components with... | `altium_pcb_report` | `kicad_errors` (partial) |  | | `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` |  |+| `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. | `altium_project_snapshot` | `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` | `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_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. | `altium_render_board_3d` | `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... | `altium_render_board_layers` | `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` |  | | `repour` | Repour every polygon on the board (Altium's Repour All) and answer the copper after. Runs outside the script engine so scoped rules apply. | `altium_repour` | `kicad_repour` | `fusion_repour` |@@ -224,16 +224,16 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `animate_view` | Camera/zoom choreography on the current document - native Altium camera commands, animated by Altium itself. | `altium_animate_view` |  |  | | `check_dialogs` | List every Altium dialog currently open, classified, each with a screenshot (the only way to READ one: Altium paints its dialog text). | `altium_check_dialogs` |  | `fusion_check_dialogs` | | `close` | Polite close (releases the licence seat). Frees a script engine parked on a breakpoint first (Altium refuses to close over one). discardChanges:true answers... | `altium_close` | `kicad_close` | `fusion_stop` |-| `close_all_documents` *proposed* | Close every open document without a save dialog. Unsaved work is never lost by default: a document with unsaved changes stays open and is listed, unless... |  |  | `fusion_close_all_documents` |+| `close_all_documents` *proposed* | Close every open document without a save dialog. Unsaved work is never lost by default: a document with unsaved changes stays open and is listed, unless... | `altium_close_all_documents` |  | `fusion_close_all_documents` | | `close_document` | Close ONE open document by path through its document handle. Never saves. | `altium_close_document` |  | `fusion_close_document` | | `connect_workspace` | Open Altium's workspace picker (the 'Not Connected' menu) and return a screenshot with a coordMap. The list is a custom control with no UIA children, so the... | `altium_connect_workspace` |  |  |-| `cross_probe` *proposed* | From a schematic part to the board part linked to it, and back, by designator, the schematic symbol's id or its sheet path; optionally select them in the tool. |  | `kicad_cross_probe` |  |+| `cross_probe` *proposed* | From a schematic part to the board part linked to it, and back, by designator, the schematic symbol's id or its sheet path; optionally select them in the tool. | `altium_cross_probe` | `kicad_cross_probe` |  | | `demo` | The tour. Default: one background beat per call with a screenshot. live:true = the narrated FOREGROUND show: ab caption + document + in-bridge camera... | `altium_demo` | `kicad_demo` | `fusion_demo` | | `describe` | This list - the bridge's verbs and schemas for ab's Verbs tab. | `altium_describe` | `kicad_describe` | `fusion_describe` | | `diagnostics` | Bridge-side facts for a bug report: environment variables, every Altium install found, Altium's windows, the agent status block and the cache directory. | `altium_diagnostics` | `kicad_diagnostics` |  | | `dialog_log` | What the standing dialog reaper (and the bridge's own recoveries) pressed, newest last: nuisance boxes, script-error boxes, discarded save prompts, silent... | `altium_dialog_log` |  | `fusion_dialog_log` | | `dismiss_dialogs` | Press one named button (default OK) on the detected Altium dialogs through UIA - no cursor, no focus steal. titles narrows it to dialogs whose title... | `altium_dismiss_dialogs` | `kicad_dismiss_dialogs` | `fusion_dismiss_blocking_dialogs` |-| `document_info` *proposed* | The active document: its name, what kind it is, whether it has unsaved changes, where it is saved and which version it is. Read only; opens nothing. |  |  | `fusion_document_info` |+| `document_info` *proposed* | The active document: its name, what kind it is, whether it has unsaved changes, where it is saved and which version it is. Read only; opens nothing. | `altium_document_info` |  | `fusion_document_info` | | `ensure_licensed` | One call to get a usable Altium: launch if needed, then claim a seat (Use License via UIA). Optional escalations: sign out to force a seat release, or start... | `altium_ensure_licensed` |  |  | | `eval` | Run a DelphiScript snippet inside Altium (optional Var block, then Begin ... End;) on the CURRENT document, or on filePath opened first. | `altium_eval` |  |  | | `extension_ping` | Does the AdomBridge .NET extension answer? Sends AdomBridge:Ping through the -R lane and waits up to 30 s for its result file. | `altium_extension_ping` |  |  |@@ -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... |  |  | `fusion_library_views` |+| `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... | `altium_library_views` |  | `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` |@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `readiness` | The one-call gate: is Altium installed, running, licensed, and is the resident agent alive? Answers with Altium closed and never touches the script engine. | `altium_readiness` | `kicad_readiness` | `fusion_readiness` | | `run_command` | Run an Altium process (Server:Command) through the agent, on the CURRENT document or on filePath opened first. | `altium_run_command` |  | `fusion_run_command` | | `run_script` | One shot: run a procedure of YOUR OWN .PrjScr through Altium's -R command line. Only for when the agent is NOT resident. | `altium_run_script` |  | `fusion_run_script` |-| `save` | Save the focused document, or open filePath first and save that (WorkspaceManager:SaveObject on the focused document). | `altium_save` | `kicad_save_board` (partial) | `fusion_save` |+| `save` | Save the focused document, or the document at filePath (opened first if need be, saved by its path, never whatever happens to have focus). | `altium_save` | `kicad_save_board` (partial) | `fusion_save` | | `sch_zoom` | Find parts on a sheet: select them (everything else deselected), frame the view on them and return a proof frame. The schematic half of cross-probing (the... | `altium_sch_zoom` |  |  | | `select_net` | Select one net as a whole on the current board (tracks, arcs, vias, pads, pours) and nothing else, optionally framing it; no net clears the selection. | `altium_select_net` | `kicad_select_clear` (partial) | `fusion_select_net` | | `selection` | What the user has selected in the current board (components with position mm, rotation, side, footprint, size) or sheet (components with location mils and... | `altium_selection` | `kicad_get_selection / kicad_select_items` |  |

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@  "standard": "0.4.5",  "reference": {   "bridge": "altium",-  "version": "0.2.76"+  "version": "0.2.77"  },  "proposed": 54,  "compared": {@@ -598,7 +598,10 @@    "name": "project_create",    "tier": "core",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_project_create",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_project_create",     "match": "exact"@@ -609,7 +612,10 @@    "name": "project_info",    "tier": "core",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_project_info",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_project_info",     "match": "exact"@@ -620,7 +626,10 @@    "name": "project_rename",    "tier": "core",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_project_rename",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_project_rename",     "match": "exact"@@ -648,7 +657,10 @@    "name": "read_footprint",    "tier": "core",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_read_footprint",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_read_footprint",     "match": "exact"@@ -1569,7 +1581,10 @@    "name": "create_part_project",    "tier": "native",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_create_part_project",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_make_part_project",     "match": "partial"@@ -1689,7 +1704,10 @@    "name": "export_library_part",    "tier": "native",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_export_library_part",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_export_part",     "match": "partial"@@ -1890,7 +1908,10 @@    "name": "project_snapshot",    "tier": "native",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_project_snapshot",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_project_snapshot",     "match": "exact"@@ -1918,7 +1939,10 @@    "name": "render_board_3d",    "tier": "native",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_render_board_3d",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_render_board_3d",     "match": "exact"@@ -1932,7 +1956,10 @@    "name": "render_board_layers",    "tier": "native",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_render_board_layers",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_export_svg",     "match": "partial"@@ -2740,7 +2767,10 @@    "name": "close_all_documents",    "tier": "app",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_close_all_documents",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": null,    "fusion360": {     "verb": "fusion_close_all_documents",@@ -2776,7 +2806,10 @@    "name": "cross_probe",    "tier": "app",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_cross_probe",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": {     "verb": "kicad_cross_probe",     "match": "exact"@@ -2866,7 +2899,10 @@    "name": "document_info",    "tier": "app",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_document_info",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": null,    "fusion360": {     "verb": "fusion_document_info",@@ -2985,7 +3021,10 @@    "name": "library_views",    "tier": "app",    "source": "proposed",-   "altium": null,+   "altium": {+    "verb": "altium_library_views",+    "match": "exact"+   },    "kicad": null,    "fusion360": {     "verb": "fusion_library_views",