Konnect — AI skill for Claude Code
AI-assisted PCB design for KiCAD 10. Native KiCAD plugin — a single Rust binary exposing 171 schematic, layout, routing, design-review, and manufacturing tools to Claude, or the LLM of your choosing.
How to install Konnect
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open mixelpixx/Konnect and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Konnect does
AI-assisted PCB design for KiCAD 10. Native KiCAD plugin — a single Rust binary exposing 171 schematic, layout, routing, design-review, and manufacturing tools to Claude, or the LLM of your choosing.
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README
Konnect *BETA Release
**AI-assisted PCB design for KiCAD 10.** Konnect is a native KiCAD plugin — a single Rust binary — that lets Claude and other AI assistants design schematics and PCBs through the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) (MCP).
**214 tools across 20 on-demand toolsets.** Schematic capture, PCB layout and routing, ERC/DRC, design-review audits, JLCPCB part search, reference circuits, and a full manufacturing export pipeline — with bundled skills and agents that teach Claude KiCAD conventions out of the box.
**Status: beta.** The core toolchain is tested and working, but this is a young release and it wants real-world mileage and review. Issues and PRs are welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and the [naming conventions](docs/NAMING_CONVENTIONS.md).
Add realtime research to KiCAD MCP and Konnect. Introducing Nimrod
[**Nimrod**](https://nimrod.orchis.ai) is our web-research MCP server: quality-scored Google search, clean webpage extraction, and deep multi-source research. Design the board with Konnect while Nimrod pulls live parts availability, datasheets, and errata — no more guessing from year-old training data
- Works with claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, and any MCP client
- 1 credit = 1 search · extraction always free · free 50-credit trial, no card
- Official MCP Registry: `ai.orchis/nimrod`
Why Konnect exists
Konnect is the successor to [KiCAD-MCP-Server](https://github.com/mixelpixx/KiCAD-MCP-Server), a Python/TypeScript project that proved AI-driven PCB design works — and, in the process, showed exactly where that architecture runs out of road. Konnect was built to fix those specific problems:
**The call path was too long.** In the original server, a single tool
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