PowerLab KiCad Assistant

PowerLab KiCad Assistant is a side panel for KiCad 10 that lets the user ask Claude to work in a design: create symbol and footprint libraries to the METU Power Lab standard, place and route boards by the lab's rules, review designs, run ERC and DRC and explain the results, render 3D views, export fabrication files, and edit schematics and boards. It runs Claude Code on the user's own computer with the user's own Claude account, and gives it KiCad tools through KiCAD-MCP-Server. It is Windows and KiCad 10 only, and the README calls it an early version.

Placement starts with a block plan Claude draws on the board outline and asks about before placing anything. Routing follows the lab rules by hand in KiCad itself (power and gate drive first, 45 degree tracks, pads entered at their centres, whole GND pours), and the lab's own router follows a routing plan from the schematic and lets DRC have the last word. A review step runs DRC, the lab rules, and a 233-rule review handbook, and writes a review PDF into the project.

The panel is in 19 languages and ships skills for library work, placement, routing, review, and fabrication. Privacy is stated plainly: messages and any project files Claude reads go to Anthropic under the user's Claude account, problem reports go to a public issue on this repository only when the user presses Submit, and there is no analytics, telemetry, or tracking. Requirements are Windows 10 or 11, KiCad 10, a Claude account with Claude Code access, Git, and Node.js 18 or newer.