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adom-circuit — AI-first EDA (aci)

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by Kyle Bergstedt

Build a PCB by prompting an AI, watch every step stream into a Hydrogen webview. Rust-native pipeline (parse, DRC, ERC, gerber, SVG, autorouter) + Babylon.js 8.x 3D scene. Mouser-first BOM. Shares one

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adom-circuit (aci)

AI-first EDA. KiCad-native. Babylon-rendered. Mouser-sourced. Renderer-owned.

Build a PCB by prompting an AI, watch every step stream into a Hydrogen webview — BOM resolution → library construction → schematic → 3D board → autoroute → DRC → final GLB. Rust owns parse + geometry + compute; Babylon 8.x owns the 3D scene; they talk scene-IR JSON over WebSocket. GLTF2Export produces the final file from the live scene — what the user watches being built is what ships.

Repo: adom-inc/adom-circuit (private)
Binary name: aci

What the tool does

  • aci build <prompt> — kicks off a BOM → datasheet → Mouser → library → schematic → 3D board pipeline. Spawns parallel sub-agents (one per component); LibView populates live; autoroute streams into a routing-preview scene node at 30 fps.
  • aci dev — opens the Hydrogen webview with full chrome: Status Bar, Library Rail, Component HUD (refdes / footprint / nets / Mouser PN / price / stock), Timeline Strip, Global Footer with VS Code jump buttons.
  • aci parity — cross-checks aci-drc / aci-erc / aci-svg against the kicad-cli oracle (via service-kicad or local install). Baseline gate before a release.
  • aci doctor — health-checks every dep (service-kicad CLI → local kicad-cli → service-aci) before a build. Prints what's missing + what URL aci would hit.
  • aci review <pcb> — quick DRC + ERC fidelity report without spinning up the viewer.
  • aci test --visual --bless — pixel-diff visual regression harness with ralph-loop screenshots into the shotlog.
  • aci share / aci clone — publish a complete project bundle to the Adom Wiki / pull someone else's project and open it locally.

Native pipeline (no shell-outs in the hot path)

Stage Crate What
KiCad s-expr parse + emit aci-sexpr Byte-identical round-trip on 99.6% of the corpus (461/463 files)
Typed schema + markdown bridge aci-kicad Shells to Noah's kicad-to-markdown for LLM-facing view
Scene IR compute (outline / copper / vias / pads / paste) aci-render Feeds the Babylon scene via WebSocket patches
DRC aci-drc 8 rules r-tree-indexed; visualized as red overlays in the scene
ERC aci-erc Sheet + unit-aware; duplicates + unconnected + conflicts
Gerber emit aci-gerber RS-274X; parity-tested against kicad-cli on 20× draw-count
SVG emit aci-svg Schematic SVG; PCB top-view is an orthographic projection of the 3D scene
Autorouter aci-route A* grid, rayon-parallelized; routes the reference PCB in 22 s
Supplier resolver aci-source Mouser → DigiKey → JLCPCB; datasheet-validated candidates only
Datasheet parser wrapper aci-datasheet Parallel pup-window fan-out; visualizer on port 8851
Wiki publish aci-wiki wiki.cache_hit / wiki.published events on sym / fp / 3D deliver

Ecosystem dependencies (what aci reaches out to)

Dependency What Install
service-kicad kicad-cli operations + 4.7 GB of vetted KiCad library assets Tier B auto-install on first trigger
adom-mouser / adom-digikey / adom-jlcpcb / adom-parts-search Supplier pricing + stock + PN resolution Tier A via gallia/install.mjs
adom-desktop (pup) Multi-Chrome-session browser driving for ralph loops + the datasheet visualizer Tier A
gallia/viewer Absorbed Babylon 8.52 scene builders — symbol / footprint / gerber viewers, solder-jet-sizer, LibView Tier A

aci doctor surfaces any of these that aren't reachable from the current container, with a paste-into-Claude install prompt for each.

First-class scene features (what makes the GLB different)

  • Named scene tree — every node addressable by path: board/components/U1/body, board/components/U1/pad/7, board/layers/F.Cu/trace[17], board/paste/U1/pad_1/dot[3]. Survives export as glTF extras.
  • Solder-jet paste deposition — 13,627 paste dots at 250 µm planned + animated in the squirt AnimationGroup. Baked into the GLB.
  • Probing workcell simulation — 100 mm GND-umbilical cover + greedy set-cover over test points. probe.* events stream during the simulation.
  • InstaPCB 26-step manufacturing sim — pre-clad FR4 → lasered vias → electroplating → trace ablation → mask press → silk etch → depanel. Transient meshes (plating bath, vacuum press, silk ribbon, depanel groove) stripped from board.glb, kept in full-scene.glb.
  • Three export tiers — board.glb (scene filtered to exportClass=board), full-scene.glb (everything including workcell + diagnostics + process), full project bundle (scene-ir.json + build-log.ndjson + source).

Install (Tier B)

On a fresh Adom container, say "build me a board" or "run DRC via aci" — Claude's wiki-discover skill will surface this page and offer to run the install_hint. Manual:

curl -fsSL https://wiki-ufypy5dpx93o.adom.cloud/static/apps/adom-circuit/aci -o /tmp/aci \
  && chmod +x /tmp/aci \
  && sudo install -m 0755 /tmp/aci /usr/local/bin/aci \
  && aci install \
  && aci doctor

aci doctor prints the current dep status — any missing service suggests its own install_hint.

Why Tier B (not Tier A)

Every external publisher to the Adom Wiki can only use Tier B — they can't edit gallia/install.mjs. If we publish our own flagship tool as Tier A, we never feel the friction external publishers are stuck with, and the Tier B path quietly rots. So we eat our own dog food. See adom-app-model §7 for the full doctrine.

Current status

  • 97% of PLAN.md shipped — every Part 27 Critical + High + Medium + Low resolved.
  • 147+ commits, 87/87 tests green, 16 Rust crates, 2 TS packages.
  • Phase 4 end-to-end proven (176 WebSocket events → Babylon scene → GLB round-trip).
  • Phase 15 worked-example (scripts/phase-15-worked-example.sh) green on a blank project.
  • Partial gates: Phase 8 SVG pixel-compare (structural tag parity done, resvg pixel-compare deferred), Phase 9 JLCPCB gerber submission (20× draw-count parity done, external fab submission is not automatable), Phase 10e WebGPU compute-shader autorouter (feature-gated scaffold).