KiCAD-Prism

KiCAD Prism is an open-source, self-hosted review, release and component-governance platform for teams that design in KiCad and keep their projects in Git. KiCad remains the editor and Git remains the source of truth. Prism adds what happens around them: browsing every revision in the browser, reviewing changes with comments, building and signing off release packages, and running a governed component library that desktop KiCad places parts from. It runs on the user's own hardware, with no proprietary ECAD cloud.

Every revision opens in schematic, PCB, 3D, BOM and stackup views, with cross-probing between them, net highlighting, point-to-point measurement and PCB or schematic insets. Prism reads each revision once with its own Rust KiCad parser and keeps the result as a design bundle. Comments are rich text with pasted snips and attachments, anchored to the revision they were written on, and can be published to GitHub or GitLab issues. Design comparison lists what changed in the schematic, PCB, BOM, stackup and fabrication outputs.

Release Studio takes a committed revision through source, identity, manufacturing, build, outputs and publish: it builds fabrication and assembly files, PDF documents and manufacturer packs, shows the Gerbers in the browser, records DRC and ERC evidence and designer and QA sign-off, and publishes the approved package to GitHub or GitLab Releases. Library Manager is a component catalog with immutable revisions, reusable symbol, footprint, 3D and SPICE assets, optional KiCad Library Convention checks and a QA release flow; released parts reach desktop KiCad through the Remote Symbol Provider, which places the exact catalog revision with its 3D models embedded, or through a generated KiCad database library.