AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10
Summary
The article introduces Konnect, an AI-assisted KiCAD 10 PCB design plugin implemented as a single Rust binary. It describes 217 schematic, layout, routing, placement, design-review, and manufacturing tools exposed to Claude or other LLMs, and explains architectural improvements over the KiCAD-MCP-Server, including a direct function-call tool path, reduced dependencies, and KiCAD 10 IPC API usage. It also covers installation, usage scenarios, licensing (AGPL-3.0 with commercial options), and setup for Claude Desktop and Codex.