KiCAD MCP Server
Design printed circuit boards in KiCAD with Claude and other LLMs through natural language.
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Electronics hobbyists and engineers who want help placing, routing and checking PCB layouts in KiCAD.
You want a one-line install; the README builds the server from source with npm.
About KiCAD MCP Server
KiCAD MCP Server lets LLMs such as Claude interact directly with KiCAD for PCB design, from GitHub Copilot in VS Code or Claude Desktop. This Python and TypeScript server remains MIT-licensed and maintained; the authors' newer Konnect, a native KiCAD 10 plugin rewritten in Rust with 171 tools, is AGPL-3.0 with commercial licences for businesses.
KiCAD MCP Server is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 2.4k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
KiCAD MCP Server vs. the alternatives
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