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

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Coverage: every standard verb on each bridge -Altium bridge 0.2.80 (the reference), KiCad bridge 1.0.82, Fusion 360 bridge 1.13.10. 56 verbs came from other bridges' proposals (tools/proposed/); they are marked *proposed*.+Altium bridge 0.2.80 (the reference), KiCad bridge 1.0.82, Fusion 360 bridge 1.13.11. 56 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. @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ Generated by `tools/generate.py` from `verbs/coverage.json`; do not edit by hand |---|---|---|---|---| | **core** | 93 | 93 | 90 | 82 | | **native** | 46 | 46 | 43 | 33 |-| **checks** | 37 | 37 | 35 | 21 |-| **app** | 62 | 60 | 44 | 39 |+| **checks** | 37 | 37 | 35 | 26 |+| **app** | 62 | 60 | 44 | 45 | | **platform** | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 |-| standard (all but platform) | 238 | 236 | 212 | 175 |+| standard (all but platform) | 238 | 236 | 212 | 186 |  ## core @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Engineering computed from the board model, not by the tool: one shared engine, s | Verb | What it does | Altium | KiCad | Fusion 360 | |---|---|---|---|---| | `assembly_check` | Ready for JLCPCB assembly? The board against both JLCPCB PCBA tiers as published (Economic and Standard): board or panel size, thickness and layers, parts... | `altium_assembly_check` | `kicad_assembly_check` | `fusion_assembly_check` |-| `auto_classes` | Net classes from the nets' own names: GND, Power (VCC, VDD, 3V3, VBAT...), Clock, HighSpeed (USB, Ethernet, HDMI, PCIe, DDR, MIPI, LVDS, SATA...) and the... | `altium_auto_classes` | `kicad_auto_classes` |  |+| `auto_classes` | Net classes from the nets' own names: GND, Power (VCC, VDD, 3V3, VBAT...), Clock, HighSpeed (USB, Ethernet, HDMI, PCIe, DDR, MIPI, LVDS, SATA...) and the... | `altium_auto_classes` | `kicad_auto_classes` | `fusion_auto_classes` | | `board_features` | Add the furniture every real board needs in one undo step: mounting holes (at points or the four corners), fiducials, keepout areas, and a stitching-via... | `altium_board_features` | `kicad_add_mounting_hole` (partial) | `fusion_board_features` (partial) | | `board_report` | One shareable page per board: every check run against the live board and its project (Altium's DRC, JLCPCB fab limits and assembly tiers, the schematic... | `altium_board_report` | `kicad_board_report` |  | | `bom` | The project's bill of materials read straight from Altium: every schematic sheet the .PrjPcb lists (placed parts and their parameters) merged with the board... | `altium_bom` | `kicad_bom` | `fusion_board_bom` (partial) |@@ -181,18 +181,18 @@ Engineering computed from the board model, not by the tool: one shared engine, s | `build_footprint` | Build a complete footprint (pads, silkscreen, courtyard, arcs) in a PcbLib from a kicad2altium spec file on this machine, and return a proof frame. | `altium_build_footprint` |  |  | | `build_schematic` | Draw a design's schematic from its netlist with the project library's symbols, inside a new project (.PrjPcb with the board and libraries), compile it, and... | `altium_build_schematic` | `kicad_build_schematic` | `fusion_schematic_plan / fusion_schematic_run` (partial) | | `check_clearance` *proposed* | Measure the gaps between parts, courtyard to courtyard or pad copper to pad copper, for the listed parts or the whole board, and report every pair under a... | `altium_check_clearance` | `kicad_check_clearance` | `fusion_check_clearance` |-| `check_orientation` | Advisory: 2-pad parts whose rotation could be better. Each orthogonal rotation is scored in place by airline length (a routable net's MST with the pad... | `altium_check_orientation` | `kicad_check_orientation` |  |+| `check_orientation` | Advisory: 2-pad parts whose rotation could be better. Each orthogonal rotation is scored in place by airline length (a routable net's MST with the pad... | `altium_check_orientation` | `kicad_check_orientation` | `fusion_check_orientation` | | `copper_balance` | How much of each copper layer is copper (tracks, pads, vias and what Altium actually poured, inside the outline; a plane counts full), and how far apart... | `altium_copper_balance` | `kicad_copper_balance` | `fusion_copper_balance` | | `cross_check` | Compare one schematic sheet's designators with a board's. Altium holds ONE current document, so the verb activates the board, reads it, then activates the... | `altium_cross_check` | `kicad_analyze_connections` (partial) | `fusion_cross_check` | | `current_capacity` | Will this trace carry the current? For each power net and its current: the narrowest track on every layer it is routed on against the width IPC-2221 needs... | `altium_current_capacity` | `kicad_current_capacity` | `fusion_current_capacity` | | `estimate_cost` *proposed* | The board's numbers a fab quote needs (size, layers, thickness, smallest track, gap and drill, holes, SMD and through-hole parts and joints, unique parts)... | `altium_estimate_cost` | `kicad_estimate_cost` | `fusion_estimate_cost` | | `fab_check` | Before ordering: the board's fab-relevant minimums measured from the live board (narrowest track, smallest via drill, diameter and annular ring, smallest... | `altium_fab_check` | `kicad_fab_check` | `fusion_fab_check` |-| `find_space` | Free spots on the board for a part near another (clear of every other part on that side, of that side's tracks and vias, and inside the outline), nearest... | `altium_find_space` | `kicad_find_space` |  |+| `find_space` | Free spots on the board for a part near another (clear of every other part on that side, of that side's tracks and vias, and inside the outline), nearest... | `altium_find_space` | `kicad_find_space` | `fusion_find_space` | | `footprint_from_land_pattern` | Build a complete footprint from the land pattern a datasheet prints: pads numbered the standard way (chip, dual SOIC/TSSOP/DFN, SOT, quad QFP/QFN, BGA), an... | `altium_footprint_from_land_pattern` | `kicad_footprint_from_land_pattern` |  | | `height_check` | Will it fit the enclosure? Each part's height from its 3D bodies (top and bottom side), the parts over a height limit board-wide or under a lid feature in a... | `altium_height_check` | `kicad_height_check` | `fusion_height_check` | | `impedance` | Controlled impedance from the board's own stack-up: the track width each copper layer needs for a single-ended target (50 ohm default) and the width and gap... | `altium_impedance` | `kicad_impedance` | `fusion_impedance` | | `import_part` | One call imports a whole part: footprint spec + STEP + symbol modes + models + params + save. | `altium_import_part` |  |  |-| `jlcpcb_order` | A JLCPCB order in one call: the board checked against JLCPCB's fab limits, the Gerbers and drill zipped the way JLCPCB's order page takes them, the JLCPCB... | `altium_jlcpcb_order` | `kicad_jlcpcb_order` |  |+| `jlcpcb_order` | A JLCPCB order in one call: the board checked against JLCPCB's fab limits, the Gerbers and drill zipped the way JLCPCB's order page takes them, the JLCPCB... | `altium_jlcpcb_order` | `kicad_jlcpcb_order` | `fusion_jlcpcb_order` | | `length_tune` | Lengthen a routed net to a target length, or to match another net (a pair's skew, a DDR byte lane): a serpentine in its longest straight track that has room... | `altium_length_tune` | `kicad_length_tune` |  | | `net_lengths` | Routed length of every net (or the ones named) on the live board, by layer with its vias; the skew inside each differential pair; and the spread of... | `altium_net_lengths` | `kicad_net_lengths` | `fusion_net_lengths` | | `pin_pad_check` | Do the footprints fit their symbols? Part by part, the symbol's pin numbers (from the sheet files) against the footprint's pad names (from the board): pins... | `altium_pin_pad_check` | `kicad_pin_pad_check` |  |@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Engineering computed from the board model, not by the tool: one shared engine, s | `review_board` | Design-review checks (14) over one board read; schematic checks with includeSchematic. | `altium_review_board` | `kicad_lint_board` (partial) |  | | `route_pair` | Route a differential pair as a pair: one centreline from the source pads' midpoint through waypoints to the destination pads' midpoint, each net offset to... | `altium_route_pair` | `kicad_route_pair` |  | | `schematic_review` | Review the schematic before Update PCB: every placed pin (read from the sheet files, with its electrical type) against Altium's compiled netlist. Errors:... | `altium_schematic_review` | `kicad_sch_check / kicad_design_review / kicad_lint_schematic` (partial) |  |-| `silk_designators` | Place every reference designator the way assembly houses want: one size, upright, beside its own part, clear of every pad (JLCPCB: 0.15 mm), every other... | `altium_silk_designators` | `kicad_silk_designators` |  |+| `silk_designators` | Place every reference designator the way assembly houses want: one size, upright, beside its own part, clear of every pad (JLCPCB: 0.15 mm), every other... | `altium_silk_designators` | `kicad_silk_designators` | `fusion_silk_designators` | | `test_board` | Place one footprint, or a ';' list, from the open PcbLib on ONE board: a NEW board (wMm x hMm outline) when pcbPath is new or omitted, APPENDED to the... | `altium_test_board` | `kicad_test_board` |  | | `thermal_vias` | A thermal via grid in a part's exposed pad (the ground or thermal pad under a QFN, DFN, PowerPAD or regulator): centred, inset from the pad's edge, sized by... | `altium_thermal_vias` | `kicad_thermal_vias` | `fusion_thermal_vias` | | `via_fence` | A via fence for EMC: a row of ground vias on both sides of RF or fast nets' tracks, and/or round the board edge, at a pitch from the frequency (lambda/20)... | `altium_via_fence` | `kicad_via_fence` | `fusion_via_fence` |@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `agent_start` | Bootstrap the resident DelphiScript agent inside Altium (renders the script, runs it through the -R lane, waits for the heartbeat). Optional: every... | `altium_agent_start` |  |  | | `agent_status` | Is the agent loop alive and responsive, in which workspace, and is any loop resident anywhere? Read-only; never starts the agent. | `altium_agent_status` |  |  | | `agent_stop` | Stop the selected instance's resident agent loop (drops a stop file and waits up to 12 s for the heartbeat to go stale). | `altium_agent_stop` |  |  |-| `animate_view` | Camera/zoom choreography on the current document - native Altium camera commands, animated by Altium itself. | `altium_animate_view` |  |  |+| `animate_view` | Camera/zoom choreography on the current document - native Altium camera commands, animated by Altium itself. | `altium_animate_view` |  | `fusion_view` (partial) | | `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` | `kicad_state / kicad_dismiss_dialogs` (partial) | `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... | `altium_close_all_documents` | `kicad_close` (partial) | `fusion_close_all_documents` |@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `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. | `altium_document_info` | `kicad_state` (partial) | `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` | `kicad_eval` |  |+| `eval` | Run a DelphiScript snippet inside Altium (optional Var block, then Begin ... End;) on the CURRENT document, or on filePath opened first. | `altium_eval` | `kicad_eval` | `fusion_run_modeling_script` (partial) | | `export_spice` *proposed* | Write the design's SPICE netlist with the tool's own exporter, and say what it holds. |  | `kicad_export_spice` | `fusion_export_spice` | | `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` |  |  | | `foreground` | Bring Altium in front of the user - the sanctioned exception to the never-foreground rule. | `altium_foreground` | `kicad_foreground` |  |@@ -245,18 +245,18 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `instances` | Every running Altium (Designer + Designer Develop can run together). | `altium_instances` | `kicad_state` (partial) |  | | `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... | `altium_library_views` | `kicad_library_views` | `fusion_library_views` |-| `license` | Drive the License Management page (UIA first - no cursor, no foreground). | `altium_license` |  |  |+| `license` | Drive the License Management page (UIA first - no cursor, no foreground). | `altium_license` |  | `fusion_account` (partial) | | `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` | `kicad_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` | `kicad_menu_items` (partial) | `fusion_list_commands` | | `open_document` | Open a document or project by path through the agent and show it without focusing it. An already-open document is activated, not reloaded. | `altium_open_document` | `kicad_open_board / kicad_open_schematic` (partial) | `fusion_open_document` |-| `open_project` | Open a project (.PrjPcb / .PrjScr / .PrjMbd / .PrjHar / .LibPkg) by path. Same handler as altium_open_document. | `altium_open_project` | `kicad_open_board / kicad_open_schematic` (partial) |  |+| `open_project` | Open a project (.PrjPcb / .PrjScr / .PrjMbd / .PrjHar / .LibPkg) by path. Same handler as altium_open_document. | `altium_open_project` | `kicad_open_board / kicad_open_schematic` (partial) | `fusion_open_cloud_file` (partial) | | `panel` | Activate a docked panel TAB (SCH Library, PCB Library, Components, Projects, Properties) in the BACKGROUND - the 'ganged-up view' needs the right panels in... | `altium_panel` |  |  | | `progress` | The bridge's timing book: phases in flight right now (percent/ETA blocks ab paints on the taskbar), measured phase history and per-verb run statistics. | `altium_progress` | `kicad_progress` |  | | `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` | `kicad_send_key` (partial) | `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` | `kicad_run_script` | `fusion_run_script` | | `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` |  |  |+| `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` |  | `fusion_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` |  | | `selftest_script_error` | Regression test for the script-error safety net (from 0.2.23): makes the agent raise a REAL DelphiScript runtime error on purpose and checks that the bridge... | `altium_selftest_script_error` |  |  |@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Driving the application itself (launch, licence, dialogs, windows, views). Each | `state` | The whole picture in one call: licence state, windows, dialogs, a screenshot of every main/dialog window, and the agent's logical state (focused document,... | `altium_state` | `kicad_state` | `fusion_state` | | `status` | Is Altium running, licensed, and is the resident agent alive? | `altium_status` | `kicad_status` | `fusion_status` | | `uninstall` | Remove the bridge's own cache directory (agent workspaces, rendered agent scripts, the Altium 365 token file). Altium Designer and the user's designs are... | `altium_uninstall` | `kicad_uninstall` | `fusion_uninstall` |-| `window_info` | Altium's top-level windows plus any open dialogs, without screenshots. The cheap way to ask 'is a modal blocking the engine?'. | `altium_window_info` | `kicad_window_info` |  |+| `window_info` | Altium's top-level windows plus any open dialogs, without screenshots. The cheap way to ask 'is a modal blocking the engine?'. | `altium_window_info` | `kicad_window_info` | `fusion_check_dialogs` (partial) | | `zoom_to` | Frame the PCB view on a rectangle, a part (or several) or a whole net, with a margin. | `altium_zoom_to` | `kicad_zoom_to` | `fusion_zoom_to` |  ## platform

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@  "proposed": 56,  "compared": {   "kicad": "1.0.82",-  "fusion360": "1.13.10"+  "fusion360": "1.13.11"  },  "tiers": {   "core": "Read and edit the design. Every bridge provides these: they are how an AI sees and changes a board.",@@ -2357,7 +2357,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_auto_classes",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_auto_classes",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "board_features",@@ -2479,7 +2482,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_check_orientation",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_check_orientation",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "copper_balance",@@ -2578,7 +2584,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_find_space",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_find_space",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "footprint_from_land_pattern",@@ -2651,7 +2660,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_jlcpcb_order",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_jlcpcb_order",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "length_tune",@@ -2854,7 +2866,10 @@     "verb": "kicad_silk_designators",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_silk_designators",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "test_board",@@ -2971,7 +2986,11 @@     "match": "exact"    },    "kicad": null,-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_view",+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "Fusion's own camera with smooth transitions (fit, home, iso, orbit, zoom, pan) on the 3D view; the 2D board and schematic zoom with fusion_electron_zoom"+   }   },   {    "name": "check_dialogs",@@ -3195,7 +3214,11 @@     "verb": "kicad_eval",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_run_modeling_script",+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "a Python snippet with Fusion's adsk API in the live session, not DelphiScript"+   }   },   {    "name": "export_spice",@@ -3334,7 +3357,11 @@     "match": "exact"    },    "kicad": null,-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_account",+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "Fusion is licensed through the Autodesk account: the signed-in account, Autodesk's licence state and whether this machine holds the seat (there is no licence page to drive)"+   }   },   {    "name": "license_status",@@ -3401,7 +3428,11 @@     "match": "partial",     "note": "opens the project's board or schematic in its editor"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_open_cloud_file",+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "opens the electronics design (its project document) from the Fusion hub by name or URN: Fusion has no project files on disk"+   }   },   {    "name": "panel",@@ -3506,7 +3537,10 @@     "match": "exact"    },    "kicad": null,-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_sch_zoom",+    "match": "exact"+   }   },   {    "name": "select_net",@@ -3819,7 +3853,11 @@     "verb": "kicad_window_info",     "match": "exact"    },-   "fusion360": null+   "fusion360": {+    "verb": "fusion_check_dialogs",+    "match": "partial",+    "note": "every open Fusion dialog with title, text and buttons, without a screenshot; fusion_state adds the window and a background screenshot"+   }   },   {    "name": "zoom_to",