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eda-agent (salitronic)ECADConfidence: Medium

Altium MCP bridge: running eda-agent relaunch from a terminal without the MCP server's EDA_AGENT_WORKSPACE overwrites a machine-global pointer file with the default folder, so the restarted Altium script serves that folder while the MCP server keeps sending requests to the custom one; then the diagnosis calls it a dead loop when the script is healthy, just somewhere else. The agent's context about where the design lives got silently swapped during recovery.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Electrical Engineer
Team Size Impact
5x Multiplier
Prototype Delay
3 Days
Est. Annual Cost
$30,000
  • 1 user · 1 month240 min
  • Rest of team960 min
  • Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.