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KiCad-AI-Assistant (paul356)ECADConfidence: Medium

A KiCad AI plugin's update check has failed against every published release, because it needs a checksum file that no release carries. It reports check your network connection for every failure and logs nothing, and the author found 0 matching log lines out of 622,924.

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
paul356/KiCad-AI-Assistant Issue #218: fix: panel update check reports a network error when the release has no SHA256SUMS (skip verification, raise the 3 s timeout)
github.com
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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 31-Nov 1 2026 (Oct 31 9:41 PM ET through Nov 1 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch overnight edition). Verified live 2026-11-01: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.