Konnect

**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