KiCad MCP agent stack (Claude Code + MCP servers)ECADConfidence: Medium

An engineer running Claude Code against KiCad found the agent kept repeating a stale claim of 19 DRC violations that lived on in prose docs. MCP tool summaries cannot be treated as live numbers; only DRC message text and actual exports are authoritative.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Electrical Engineer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

1 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$13,500

1 user · 1 month180 min
Rest of team720 min
Rest of year9,900 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $13.5k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

swc-module AGENTS.md: anti-hallucination operating manual for a KiCad 10 board built with Claude Code and MCP servers

github.com

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Analyst Notes

From the 2026-10-07 pain-radar digest (finding 3): real engineer, production board, every rule in the manual names a rework round it cost. First-person evidence, but from one builder's repo. Cost model assumes repeated manual verification of every geometric claim the agent makes.