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Install the KiCad connector so Sprocket can edit schematics and PCBs, view designs in 2D and 3D, pick parts, and draw wiring diagrams.

KiCad connector

The KiCad connector gives the agent KiCad, the KiCad Python API, routing tools, and libraries. The agent uses it to create and edit schematics and boards, run ERC and DRC, and export Gerbers, renders, and BOMs.

Open Settings → Connectors

Do this in Sprocket on the computer that will run the agent. Connectors install on that computer.

Install KiCad

Click Install. The connector needs about 10 GiB of free disk space.

The connector runs on macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows on x64 and Arm, and Linux x64. It needs KiCad 10.99 or newer. If you already have one installed, the connector uses it. Otherwise it downloads its own KiCad nightly build. If you uninstall or downgrade a KiCad the connector uses, reinstall the connector.

When a connector update is ready, Settings → Connectors shows an Update button.

Connectors are experimental.

View designs

When the agent works on a KiCad project, it can add a project card to its reply. The card opens the schematics and board in a viewer with 2D and 3D board views.

Hardware skills

Sprocket’s built-in skills cover these hardware tasks:

  • working-with-kicad for schematics, boards, and exports.
  • selecting-hardware-parts for picking parts and suppliers and writing a BOM.
  • designing-wiring-diagram for projects built from modules and dev boards rather than a custom PCB.

To order the parts, see Purchases.

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