KiCad Bridge for macOS

Your AI drives KiCad on your Mac, in the background. It opens boards, schematics, symbols and footprints, shows and turns the 3D Viewer, runs DRC and ERC, exports fabrication files, places and routes on a live board, and installs libraries and parts, while KiCad stays behind your work and never takes your focus.

This is the macOS edition of the KiCad bridge: one signed native program for Apple Silicon Macs that Adom Bridge installs and keeps up to date. The Windows edition is adom/kicad-bridge; the two share their verb set and are released separately.

Install

There is nothing to install by hand. Adom Bridge for macOS (bundled with Hydrogen) downloads the bridge the first time an AI asks for KiCad and updates it on its own. If KiCad itself is missing, the AI can install the official build for you (kicad_upgrade).

What it needs

• KiCad 9 or 10 (KiCad 10 recommended).
• Adom Bridge's Accessibility, Screen Recording and Accessibility Access (Events) grants. Hydrogen's first run sets them up.

How it stays out of your way

KiCad windows open behind your work. When the AI needs you to see something, it says why first, then brings the window forward. Menus that macOS only lets the frontmost app use are reached through KiCad's own actions and a small helper plugin inside KiCad, so nothing jumps in front of you.

For AIs

Install the skill: adom-wiki pkg install adom/kicad-bridge-macos. Then adom-bridge kicad_describe '{}' lists every verb.

License

MIT.