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KiCad - the KiCad Bridge

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Drive your own KiCad from an AI, in the background: open every editor, read the whole board as data (the EDA Bridge Standard board model), stack-up, part heights, netlists, place, route, pour, DRC and exports.

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#142 Closed PR #73 merged, not released yet bug report
kicad_move_footprint refuses every call: Unknown move argument 'timeout' (injected by the CLI)
Kyle Bergstedt · · 1 reply
#141 Closed PR #71 merged, not released yet general
kicad_silk_state reports text y negated, kicad_silk_text_batch takes positive y: round-tripping a position moves the text off the board
noah · · 1 reply
#140 Closed PR #69 merged, not released yet bug report
kicad_route_net refuses drc_incomplete when only WARNING types (silk_overlap, silk_over_copper) hit KiCad's 199-per-type cap
noah · · 1 reply
#139 Closed PR #68 merged, not released yet feature request
close_all_documents closes documents other AI threads opened: add a caller guard
noah · · 1 reply
#138 Closed PR #63 released in 1.0.194 on 2 Nov 2026 general
update_pcb_from_schematic (apply) leaves REF** on some footprints
noah · · 1 reply
#137 Closed bug report
KiCad installed on a drive other than C: is not detected, and library paths are hard-coded to C: (from hydrogen#154)
Colby Knox · · 2 replies
#75 Closed general
Parked: window-anchored progress captions for library and PCM imports (KiCad has no reachable native status surface outside pcbnew) parked
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#112 Closed bug report
KiCad windows grab the foreground on every open and are only bounced afterwards: the user sees every one (30 in one battery) parked
John Lauer · · 4 replies
#100 Closed general
show_3d_board reports canvasRendered true for a completely black viewer
John Lauer · · 11 replies
#101 Closed general
Expose model visibility and binding plus complete zone-plan reconciliation in the bridge
John Lauer · · 8 replies
#105 Closed general
Expose native 3D pan and reference framing without script workarounds
John Lauer · · 6 replies
#110 Closed general
kicad_ganged_view: symbol + footprint + 3D chip (footprint chooser with iso 3D) as one first-class verb
John Lauer · · 6 replies
#114 Closed general
TODO: keep debugging the background guard (backgroundGuard) before turning it back on by default roadmap
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#127 Closed general
Linux build of kicad-bridge (Debian 13, KiCad 10 Flatpak, X11) for Adom Bridge on Linux
John Lauer · · 11 replies
#128 Closed general
Linux build of the KiCad Bridge, tested on the Grok computer and the gallia container, so adom-aiflow can finish boards on Linux
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#135 Closed bug report
macOS KiCad 10.0.7: pcbnew SIGSEGV in OPENGL_GAL::DrawPolyline (PCB_PAINTER::draw(ZONE)) right after kicad_apply_zone_plan commits
Drew Owens · · 2 replies
#89 Closed feature request
SPICE simulation: kicad_export_spice + kicad_simulate, with an ecosystem-wide ngspice runner roadmap
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#121 Closed PR #64 open bug report
Net-tour Zoom to Selection hint starts interactive area tool and leaves IPC busy
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#136 Closed general
kicad-lane: tour-pack/template is missing: the default kicad-tour pack and 7 schematic_edit tests have no tour-demo files
Colby Knox · · 1 reply
#106 Closed general
kicad_install_library_bundle planOnly: the pre-flight plan contract ab needs to render progress and evidence slots roadmap
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#104 Closed general
Expose native text bounds and stable silkscreen edit batches for AI Flow
John Lauer · · 20 replies
#129 Closed bug report
kicad_silk_fields_batch: live update fails with ISC_INVALID_TYPE PCB_FIELD_T (KiCad 10.0.6), dry run passes
ae007 · · 4 replies
#126 Closed general
kicad_move_footprint drops a polygon's closing vertex on rotate; DRC then reports lib_footprint_mismatch
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#109 Closed general
3D proofs pass with SMD models hidden by 3d_viewer.json (show_footprints_insert false): report and fix the viewer flags
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#95 Closed feature request
Live native copper zones and Kelvin pour keepouts for end-to-end AI layout
John Lauer · · 15 replies
#132 Closed PR #64 open bug report
PCM verbs read only http(s): a private wiki page's repository cannot be installed (no file://)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#120 Closed bug report
Read-only kicad_state reports clicking an unrelated Remote Desktop dialog with no KiCad editor running
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#124 Closed bug report
routing_validate loses project-local footprint library context while native DRC is clean
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#125 Closed general
kicad_move_footprint courtyard check uses bounding boxes; refuses placements native DRC accepts
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#131 Closed bug report
No schematic verb for a no-connect flag: open pins make ERC fail
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#130 Closed bug report
kicad_sch_place_symbol cannot expand ${KICAD10_3RD_PARTY}, so PCM-installed libraries are unusable
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#133 Closed general
kicad_placement_validate: outline box ignores a large arc's bulge; nested annular courtyards reported as overlapping
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#134 Closed bug report
kicad_remove_route ignores dryRun:true and removes the copper live
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#119 Closed general
B.Cu footprint pads are read unmirrored — back-side routing/preflight broken (QFN evidence)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#123 Closed bug report
PCM: an AI could not find docs/pcm.md and reverse-engineered KiCad source instead (verb hints + workspace skills)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#122 Closed bug report
kicad_open_board reuses the wrong document when absolute paths share a basename
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#118 Closed bug report
Public page names an unannounced product
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#117 Closed feature request
Declare prewarm.verb in bridge.json so ab can ask you to prewarm yourself on first install (ab 2.1.153)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#116 Closed feature request
Carry the three KiCad reply hints ab's CLI used to append (modal-dialog check after open_*, window_info, screenshot_all)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#115 Closed bug report
kicad_add_zone returns a revision the async zone fill makes stale a moment later: the next edit gets stale_board
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#113 Closed bug report
Adom taskbar overlay badge was never ported to the native build: the overlayBadges setting does nothing
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#111 Closed general
open_footprint_editor cannot load a footprint from a library installed while KiCad is running ([no footprint loaded])
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#107 Closed general
Reminder for John: connect arav-rog to the desk monitor so we have a multi-monitor test box reminder
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#108 Closed bug report
kicad_upgrade fails with NameError: name 'subprocess' is not defined (macOS, no KiCad installed)
Kyle Bergstedt · · 3 replies
#96 Closed show and tell
Astra routing video: ESC G431 through kicad_route_net, with independent placement and pours
John Lauer · · 4 replies
#94 Closed show and tell
Astra routing video: ESC G431 through kicad_route_net
John Lauer · · 7 replies
#99 Closed general
show_3d_board returns another board’s viewer when two PCB editors are open
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#102 Closed general
3D viewer calls return an older board window despite explicit PCB target
John Lauer · · 4 replies
#93 Closed bug report
Freerouting DSN: track width comes back at 0.187 mm below the 0.2 mm board minimum, approximated pads cause clearance errors, plane layers get signal routes needs-hardware-test
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#91 Closed bug report
kicad_route_net answered stale_board for a commit that had landed (Astra take, arav-rog, 1.0.2)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#48 Closed bug report
Spawns/restarts lose KiCad window placement: multi-monitor users get windows back on the primary display; post-restart windows can end parked-minimized (breaks screenshots too) needs-hardware-test
Colby Knox · · 8 replies
#77 Closed general
Send to AI: stop naming the AI, let Hydrogen's new AI picker (1.0.213) ask the user with a countdown to their default
John Lauer · · 5 replies
#71 Closed bug report
show_library never sees a just-installed symbol (fresh editor + rescan don't help), and reports 'still coming up' when no editor is open
Ray · · 19 replies
#54 Closed bug report
show_symbol lands on NAME_1_1 sub-node, exact-title verify then reports library_cache_stale even from a cold editor; cold-start show can outrun ab's 130s budget
John Lauer · · 5 replies
#98 Closed bug report
Kicad dashboard showing "127.0.0.1 refused to connect."
kaleymer · · 3 replies
#63 Closed general
0.9.252: kicad_install_library_bundle (Cloud Library one-verb install)
Colby Knox · · 7 replies
#103 Closed general
Footprint lint incorrectly says kicad-cli was not found
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#97 Closed feature request
adom-boardflow: the flow app (placement, routing, pours, analysis, simulation) as a compiled binary with hints and per-stage AI handoff; plan for the week of 2026-09-14
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#92 Closed show and tell
Astra placement video: ESC G431, 149 parts through kicad_move_footprint
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#90 Closed show and tell
Astra routing video: the six-net fixture through kicad_route_net
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#88 Closed feature request
Report missing or unverified 3D component models with automatic diagnostics and AI hints
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#87 Closed bug report
Timeout recovery hint points to plugin inventory instead of operation progress
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#51 Closed general
Library rescan verb: installing a part costs a full KiCad restart, ~150s per part (75% of every run)
John Lauer · · 4 replies
#84 Closed bug report
kicad_close ends with forceKilled:[pcbnew.exe] after the graceful pass (winvm 0.9.340, KiCad 10.0.6)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#86 Closed general
Handoff: pins cleared, but AdomLapper bridge_list selects a routing backup directory
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#85 Closed general
0.9.342 runner exports its test part before installing it
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#76 Closed general
Demo tour recording, arav-rog 2026-09-05: dock bar to six narrated beats, full desktop with audio
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#81 Closed bug report
winvm 0.9.340: background footprint loading fails and screenshot_all raises sizeKB error
John Lauer · · 6 replies
#83 Closed bug report
Clean install succeeds on winvm but first schematic launch times out after 130 seconds
John Lauer · · 6 replies
#82 Closed bug report
Readiness remains installed and ready after KiCad is uninstalled until bridge restart
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#80 Closed bug report
list_symbols resolves stock Device library into Documents instead of KiCad share directory
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#79 Closed bug report
0.9.340 shipped archive contains five runtime handler changes absent from master
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#78 Closed bug report
0.9.340 regression runner: missing fixture and 24 uncovered live verbs
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#52 Closed general
Symbol Editor capture returns a blank canvas ~13% of the time: the capture fires before the render
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#61 Closed general
PROOF REQUESTED: three ah screenshots (panel open, closed, open) + measured numbers
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#60 Closed general
Breakpoint is now 700px (pane width is not viewport width) + three more corrections
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#59 Closed general
HOLD LIFTED: adopt the full 1.22.1 visual contract (pup's reference is done)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#58 Closed general
Un-park Send to AI now; hold the 1.13.0 visual redesign until pup's reference is approved
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#57 Closed general
Adopt the Dock Bar dashboard contract (adom-ui-design 1.9.0): header, say strip + Send to AI, status pills, demo player, graduation
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#65 Closed general
Agent field report: help kicad exposes 27 of 75 verbs, so a cold agent misses kicad_launch/show_*/plugin_diagnose entirely (+ kicad_close silently closes nothing when the plugin is down)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#67 Closed general
ab 2.0.96: new X-Adom-Verified-Origin header on every verb request (the one origin signal you may gate on)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#68 Closed general
Declare agent_permissions in your skills pkg so the auto-mode classifier approves your verbs (adom/wiki#156)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#69 Closed general
Run your own insiders release tier: insidersManifestUrl (ab 2.0.99) + the private-page pattern
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#50 Closed general
Rename dock.json to dockbar.json (canonical manifest name)
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#56 Closed bug report
Demo footprint3d beat grinds 10+ min with frozen progress when duplicate demo windows exist
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#55 Closed bug report
Background demo job hangs in footprint3d when no Footprint Editor window exists (job slot then blocked)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#70 Closed PR #72 merged, not released yet PR #73 merged, not released yet feature request
Adopt the two-tier (early-release) publish: insidersManifestUrl in bridge.json, early manifest first, promote on a human's words, release log
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#66 Closed general
Dashboard header CSS lost: .iconbtn/.vsep/.target-chip render unstyled (same bug just fixed in altium-bridge 0.1.40)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#74 Closed general
ab 2.1.12-2.1.15: dev pin (no more clobbered dev caches), runtimes ensure, new window verbs, reply-shape docs
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#62 Closed bug report
kicad_show_library returns success:true when the symbol does not resolve - the editor keeps showing the PREVIOUS part (the #42 shape, on the symbol path)
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#73 Closed general
Design rules by fab: consume adom/pcb-design-rules
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#72 Closed bug report
install_library silently does the wrong thing for a single-symbol file (registers each part as its own library, leaves Adom empty)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#53 Closed general
Ship-night: park the Say it strip's Try it (copy-only) until the panel typing fix is certified
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#49 Closed general
show_symbol lands on stock LED:WS2812B-2020 when the caller asked for library Adom (same-name collision, silent cross-library fallback)
John Lauer · · 4 replies
#43 Closed bug report
dock.json calls kicad-dashboard, but the package does not install it (exit 127)
John Lauer · · 15 replies
#46 Closed general
Concurrent web callers share one global step stream: another caller's progress steps appear in my response
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#47 Closed bug report
Footprint path has NONE of the #35 stale primitives: install-while-open makes a new footprint unloadable (no staleEditorOpen, no library_cache_stale, rescan ignored, fresh editor still fails)
Colby Knox · · 5 replies
#44 Closed general
Three footprints never load in the Footprint Editor despite existsInLibrary:true (five causes ruled out; does a KiCad restart clear it?)
John Lauer · · 9 replies
#42 Closed general
P0: kicad_show_footprint with allowFocusSteal returns success:true while the PREVIOUS part is still on screen
John Lauer · · 6 replies
#35 Closed bug report
kicad_show_symbol is ~56s on every call: full cold start (relaunch + library scan) even when the Symbol Editor is already open on that symbol
Colby Knox · · 8 replies
#45 Closed general
Adopt shot:{title,image,thumbnailDataUrl,maxWidth} on the show verbs (settled cross-bridge contract from ab#91)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#41 Closed bug report
Cold open of the Symbol Editor fails: eeschema never launches (30s timeout, errorCode symbol_editor_not_open)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#39 Closed general
ab 2.0.67: ab's own window now renders your progress block - emit active[] to make the bar move
John Lauer · · 6 replies
#40 Closed general
Screenshots go to C:\tmp\adom-desktop-screenshots - retired name, and nothing prunes it (37 MB and growing)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#25 Closed general
SHIPPED: kicad_show_* surface family (Fusion fusion_show_* parity) — one named verb per surface
John Lauer · · 20 replies
#38 Closed general
Bridge SDK: background/foreground RESPONSE contract canonicalized (windowEtiquette + errorCode foreground_reason_required) - kicad and fusion have a small key migration
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#37 Closed bug report
install_symbol: 'No symbols found' on a valid .kicad_sym whose top-level symbol is at column 0 (regex requires indentation)
Colby Knox · · 1 reply
#36 Closed general
ab 2.0.61: ab no longer answers a bridge's verbs itself (#86) - please run the new NOT-INTERCEPTED audit check on yours
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#32 Closed feature request
Contract ask: every slow verb reports MEASURED progress (percent + ETA + cold/warm), not 'can take a couple of minutes'
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#31 Closed general
KiCad 10.0.5 regression: plugin no longer binds (eeschema/pcbnew), background LIB_TREE navigation dead, project-loaded PM ignores external WM_COMMAND - part surfaces degraded
John Lauer · · 10 replies
#34 Closed bug report
Footprint Editor never opens from cold on KiCad 10: reverse-bridge plugin auto-install reports no_kicad_installed and never deploys
Colby Knox · · 9 replies
#33 Closed bug report
Focus-guardian flickers a self-raising KiCad window ~10x/sec (and pegs CPU) on first launch
Colby Knox · · 2 replies
#30 Closed bug report
make_part_project: designator hardcoded to D1 (wrong for capacitors) + single-part demos should show JUST the part (no R1) - John's review
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#28 Closed general
SDK notice: EIGHT SURFACES contract added - you are the reference implementation, no action needed
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#29 Closed PR #63 released in 1.0.194 on 2 Nov 2026 general
Wiki-part demo staging: kicad_stage_part_project + model wiring on kicad_install_footprint
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#27 Closed general
Bridge process crashed once mid show_3d_chip on 0.9.102 (auto-respawned); needs crash logging + guardian/menu-walk ctypes audit
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#26 Closed general
open_3d_viewer needs the plugin-free fallback (UIA invoke) so show_3d_chip/show_3d_board work from cold
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#21 Closed general
Plugin no longer binds in eeschema/pcbnew (only kicad.exe) — breaks background canvas-load tier
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#24 Closed feature request
Please own a long-running kicad_demo verb that reports structured progress (for a real progress bar) + returns the screenshot array
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#22 Closed feature request
Suggested: a kicad_state verb that returns KiCad's full window state as a base64 screenshot array
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#23 Closed bug report
kicad_open_* matches a BROWSER tab titled 'KiCad' as the app (title-substring), so it WM_COMMANDs Chrome and never launches KiCad
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#7 Closed general
AD 1.9.84: full AD verb set now reachable via direct API (notify_user + cross-AD target)
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#8 Closed general
SDK update: two-artifact layout + deps + skills-by-openness (please re-audit)
John Lauer · · 4 replies
#12 Closed general
AD 1.9.180: your bridge now receives the CALLER (X-Adom-Caller-* headers) - new ecosystem standard
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#13 Closed general
REQUIRED: forward caller identity on your own AD callbacks (AD 1.9.183) + correction to the env-var advice
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#15 Closed general
RENAME: host app is now Adom Bridge (v2.0.0 clean cut) - action needed on your bridge.json URLs
John Lauer · · 5 replies
#18 Closed general
Bridge SDK change: every bridge now needs a <prefix>uninstall verb (for the uninstall cascade)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#19 Closed general
kicad_open_editors doesn't cold-launch KiCad (no launch verb)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#20 Closed general
kicad_open_symbol_editor ignores symbolName/libraryName (opens empty editor)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#16 Closed bug report
Stale pin: adom/adom-desktop ^1.9.x cannot resolve against adom-bridge 2.x (breaks pkg update fleet-wide)
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#14 Closed bug report
Stale dependency range: adom/adom-bridge@^1.9.0 excludes 2.0.0
Adom Registry · · 1 reply
#17 Closed bug report
kicad-bridge 1.0.17 still declares adom/adom-desktop@^1.9.0 — conflicts with adom-bridge 2.x, blocks install
John Lauer · · 0 replies
#11 Closed general
Bridge SDK updated: runtime-only release zips, skills-only tarballs, and a required one-line page statement
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#9 Closed general
AD 1.9.118: KiCad settings section removed from Adom Desktop (config keys still honored)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#10 Closed general
Rebase retired old-wiki URLs → wiki.adom.inc
Drew Owens · · 1 reply
#5 Closed general
AD v1.9.76: detect.installVerb live — declare kicad_upgrade + SDK re-audit
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#6 Closed general
AD v1.9.78: host-app gate is now GENERIC — please declare your `detect` block
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#3 Closed general
How to publish your bridge: the skills pkg + the manifest/zip (AD distribution model)
John Lauer · · 3 replies
#2 Closed feature request
Amendment (required): each verb needs hint/related/pitfalls, and EVERY kicad_call must return a rich `_hint`
John Lauer · · 2 replies
#1 Closed feature request
Action needed: add a `kicad_describe` verb so AD's new Verbs tab can list your verbs (AD v1.9.23+)
John Lauer · · 1 reply
#4 Closed general
AD 1.9.63 - bridge changes: bind ADOM_BIND_HOST (loopback) + drop your own runtime bootstrap
John Lauer · · 1 reply