kicad-happy

After the OAI demo, like many others, I tried to use KiCAD through computer-use. This doesn't produce great results. I have found the best results through a mix of Happy[0], this repo, and computer use to fill in the blanks. It is _really_ good at the stackup and part config, but creates some absolutely terrible routes. It will snake tiny traces through some SMD pins even though there is plenty of space available outside of the component. When it hits an obstacle, instead of creating 2 45 degree turns, it does 10~30 small ones creating some sort of weird crooked arc. I have produced a couple of boards for testing this way and they are generally functional. I have tried KiCadRoutingTools[1] as well which does seem to create routes that make more sense. Anyone any better experiences with these or similar tools? [0] https://github.com/aklofa

Hit this exact wall six months back building Claude Code stuff for KiCad review[1]. First pass let Claude read .kicad_sch directly via grep/read. It happily invented pin numbers that didn't exist. Rewrote it with Python analyzers that spit out JSON, now Claude just reads the JSON, problem mostly went away. Curious how spicelib-mcp handles models that aren't in the bundled library. Do you pass the .lib path as a tool arg, or does the server own a registry? [1] https://github.com/aklofas/kicad-happy