Same pair of swarms, different repo. The handoff said the schematic had 37 ERC violations, but the second swarm found 36 of those were artifacts of running KiCad ERC on a sub-sheet instead of the root sheet (hierarchical labels with no parent, unresolved library paths). Run from the root it is 1 warning, a symbol that does not match its library copy. A wrong number in a handoff note would have sent the next agent chasing 36 non-problems.

Recurring agent failure issue in drone-arm (iamdarshg)

drone-arm (iamdarshg)ECADAgent failureMedium confidence

What engineers report

A recurring agent failure problem in drone-arm (iamdarshg) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.

Failure pattern: agent / false failure

Analyst note

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 11-12 2026 (Nov 11 8:41 AM ET through Nov 12 5:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-12: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.

What it costs a team

Modeled annual cost

$30,000

For a team of 5

Prototype delay

3 days

Modeled schedule slip per occurrence

Time lost

240 min

Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents

How the cost is modeled

240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000

A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.

Engineering tools that address it

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Evidence

  1. 1iamdarshg/drone-arm Issue #38: [COORD] dsh-lead: DA-G1 ERC correction - run on root sheet, not the rf_915 sub-sheet (1 warning, not 37)github.com

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