KiCad - the KiCad Bridge

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Also audited, not in the matrix because they are too small or too different: [ki | One bridge ecosystem: KiCad, Fusion, Altium, pup, native browser, Blender, SolidWorks share ab's verbs | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | | Your wiki project is also your PCM repository | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | | Backed by a funded company rather than one maintainer | Y (NSF-funded) | N | N | N | N | Y (Seeed) | N | N | N | N |+| Open source with staffed contribution management: community wiki issues answered by an always-on AI thread, PRs reviewed and merged by three developers on staff | Y | P (one maintainer) | P (one maintainer) | P | N (stale) | P | P (one maintainer) | P | P | P |  (1) Scoped in [the Rust port plan](rust-port-plan.md) with a concrete design: schematic edit in phase 1, Freerouting in phase 2. Not in 0.9.350. The release notes will name the build that ships each one. @@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ Every other tool on this page is a KiCad tool. This bridge is one part of an env | [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) | AI-first web dashboards for every KiCad surface. The AI (and the user) sees symbols, footprints, schematics and boards instantly without opening KiCad, drives them over a live channel, and opens the real KiCad window only for the steps that need it. | | Wiki PCM repositories | A project stored on the wiki can carry one or more PCM repositories, so the project is also its own plugin and library source for KiCad's Plugin and Content Manager. | | Tool discovery | ab's `describe` and `discover` surface every bridge verb with hints, examples and pitfalls, and the wiki hosts add-on skills and bridges the community writes. Konnect's on-demand toolsets solve the same problem inside one tool. |+| Contributions | Every Adom bridge is open source on the wiki. Anyone can file an issue on the page or send a PR. A constantly running AI thread watches the issues and resolves them fast, and three software developers on staff manage PRs across all of the EDA automation bridges, so a community fix lands in days, not months. The audit found no other KiCad automation project with staffed contribution management; most are one maintainer, and the most-starred one (kicad-mcp) has been idle since October 2025 with an open security report. | | Funding | Adom is a funded company (National Science Foundation) with this ecosystem as its focus, which is a claim a single maintainer cannot make and which matters for anyone deciding what to build on. |  ## The parts of this that are not ours to claim