GitHub - mixelpixx/Konnect: AI-assisted PCB design for KiCAD 10. Native KiCAD plugin — a single Rust binary exposing 217 schematic, layout, routing, placement, design-review, and manufacturing tools to Claude, or the LLM of your choosing
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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 (MCP). 228 tools across 21 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 and the naming conventions. Add realtime research to KiCAD MCP and Konnect. Introducing Nimrod Nimrod 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, a Python/TypeScript project that proved AI-driven PCB design works — and, in the process, showed exactly where that architecture runs out of road.