KiCad - the KiCad Bridge

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Y = yes, P = partial, N = no. Marks for other tools come from their own document  | Feature | Adom | MX | KN | HP | LA | SD | PRO | AIA | KP | POA | With KiCad 11 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|+| An open, AI-first home for components: one git-backed page per part with symbol, footprint, 3D model and a canonical cross-tool record | Y (13) | N | N | N | N | P | N | N | N | N | unchanged | | Install symbols, footprints and 3D models, edit lib tables, heal, rescan, uninstall | Y | Y | P | N | N | P | Y | Y | N | Y | library-table commands and `ReloadLibrary` for everyone | | PCM plugin and library install without the GUI | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | unchanged: no PCM API in 11 | | Your wiki project is also a KiCad PCM repository | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | unchanged |@@ -153,6 +154,8 @@ Y = yes, P = partial, N = no. Marks for other tools come from their own document  (12) [adom-ds2sf](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-ds2sf) turns a datasheet into a symbol and footprint with provenance. It matters less than it did: frontier models such as Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra now read a datasheet and draw a correct symbol well on their own, which helps every tool on this page equally. ds2sf remains useful for its structured output and provenance. +(13) The [Adom wiki](https://wiki.adom.inc) hosts 22,191 public component pages today (22,580 in all). Each page is a git repository with anonymous file URLs, so an AI can read, clone, install or improve a part like code: the canonical adom-lbr record (symbol, footprint, 3D reference and pin-to-pad map in one document), the KiCad `.kicad_sym` and `.kicad_mod`, a Fusion and EAGLE `.lbr`, the manufacturer STEP and web 3D models, with symbol, footprint and 3D viewers on the page itself. Anyone can file an issue or send a pull request on a part, a part one user adds is there for every user's AI from then on, and any page doubles as a KiCad PCM repository. [adom-symbol](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-symbol), [adom-footprint](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-footprint) and [adom-lbr](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-lbr) build and convert what lives there. Seeed's free PartReel registry (more than 21,000 parts) is the nearest counterpart.+ (8) [adom-symbol](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-symbol) bakes the chip's outline (rendered from the manufacturer's STEP by chip-thumbnailer, with the part number lasered on) into the middle of the symbol as real polylines, fitted between the pin-name columns so it never covers a pin. Pins come grouped by function from the datasheet extraction, with bold group captions, in two-column, square or square-grouped layouts. A schematic then reads like the board: you can see which package each part is. adom-lbr carries the same drawing and captions into native Altium and Fusion libraries, so the part looks the same in all three tools. Any wiki component page can offer every layout variant, generated in the browser, as a `.kicad_sym` download.  ## What KiCad 11 changes@@ -179,6 +182,7 @@ We have asked the KiCad developers for the second list, with measurements and vi ## Where we lead, with the evidence  - **Real boards, on camera, with the numbers.** The [ESC G431 demo](esc-demo.md) is a public 149-part, 4-layer drone ESC placed and routed from scratch through the bridge by Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and Freerouting, with wall clock, tokens, dollars, result quality and the caveats (an electrical review found power-path and thermal issues in one layout despite clean DRC). The [adom/codex page](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/codex) has GPT-6 Astra routing a public board through the bridge, recorded.+- **A home for every component.** The Adom wiki is an AI-first repository for parts: 22,191 public component pages, each a git repo with the symbol, footprint, 3D model and a canonical cross-tool record, open to issues and pull requests like code. Every tool on this page, not just ours, could pull parts from it. - **Current and heat, solved on the copper.** Adom Fields is the only tool here that solves current density and heat flow numerically on the board's real copper and vias and shows them on the board in 3D, with the fix for each issue. - **The desktop around KiCad.** Background screenshots of covered windows with their dialogs, native video recording of a window or the desktop, the taskbar badge and progress bar, and posted menu commands. Recorded examples are on the [wishlist page](kicad-wishlist.md). - **A second computer.** Adom Bridge's mesh lets an AI in any container drive KiCad on a named machine, so the user's own screen is never touched.@@ -217,12 +221,12 @@ Most tools on this page are a KiCad tool. This bridge is one part of an environm | [service-kicad](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/service-kicad) | Headless KiCad as a shared service or kicad-cli in your container: DRC, ERC, Gerbers, STEP, GLB, renders, library lookups. | | [adom-parts-search](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-parts-search) | Mouser, DigiKey and JLCPCB in one search with a best-source pick. | | Cloud Libraries | Add parts on the wiki to your own cloud library, check KiCad, Fusion and Altium availability, and install the bundle into KiCad in one step. |-| The parts wiki | Community components with symbol, footprint, 3D model and provenance, ready for the AI. A missing part added by one user is there for everyone after. |+| [The parts wiki](https://wiki.adom.inc) | 22,191 public component pages, each a git repo with symbol, footprint, 3D model, Fusion and EAGLE library and the canonical adom-lbr record, ready for the AI. A part added by one user is there for every user after. Built and kept running by Adom with funding in part from the National Science Foundation. | | [pup](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/pup-bridge) and [adom-chip-fetcher](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-chip-fetcher) | A real, signed-in browser the AI drives in the background, used to gather parts data and download manufacturer STEP models, symbols, footprints and datasheets from the makers' own sites. | | [adom-lbr](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-lbr) and [adom-ds2sf](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-ds2sf) | Library conversion across CAD formats, and datasheet to symbol and footprint with provenance. | | [adom-symbol](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-symbol), [adom-footprint](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-footprint), [adom-schematic](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-schematic), [adom-2dboard](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/adom-2dboard) | Web views of every KiCad surface, so the AI and the user can look at a part or board without opening KiCad. | | Wiki PCM repositories | Every wiki page is git with anonymous file URLs, so a project on the wiki is also a KiCad PCM repository. See [Your wiki page as a KiCad PCM repository](pcm.md). |-| People and funding | Adom is funded by the National Science Foundation to build and maintain this for the long term, and three developers on staff review contributions across the bridges. CERN has backed KiCad itself since 2014; we would like the AI layer on top of it to have the same kind of staying power. |+| People and funding | Adom, including the wiki that hosts the parts, is funded in part by the National Science Foundation to build and maintain this for the long term, and three developers on staff review contributions across the bridges. CERN has backed KiCad itself since 2014; we would like the AI layer on top of it to have the same kind of staying power. |  ## Simulation