kicad-workbench

KiCad Workbench is an MCP server that lets an AI agent work with KiCad projects. The agent reads schematics, boards and libraries, runs the checks of KiCad, makes the bill of materials (BOM), and writes changes to the schematic. It supports KiCad 8, 9 and 10.

Installation

MCP client config (paste into mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kicad-workbench": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "kicad-workbench"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Agent install prompt

Copy and paste into Cursor / Claude / other agents to install this MCP for you

Please read this MCP repository and install it into my current environment:
https://github.com/turbyho/kicad-workbench

Known working client config (can write into mcp.json):
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kicad-workbench": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "kicad-workbench"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Please: 1) check README for deps and env vars; 2) write config for my client; 3) if secrets are missing, tell me what to fill — do not invent values.

GitHub

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