KiCad MCP Server

Item: KiCad MCP Server
Rating: 39
Author: M8ven

Enables LLMs to inspect, edit, analyze, and render PCB layouts in real-time using the KiCad IPC API, providing tools for board configuration, footprints, tracks, zones, nets, text, shapes, dimensions, exports, screenshots, and CLI automation.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — get_board_screenshot_svg (line 95: os.unlink(tmp_svg))

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

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commit: 20864c8a591950dde2eadf13b2539cc01a80b39e

code hash: 4e7ebc9477871d57252b0179e52cd0a796180488c76c10af8b53723e9d51d8a8

verified: 7/9/2026, 10:06:32 AM

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