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mcp-server-kicad (KiCad MCP server)ECADConfidence: Medium

The add_label tool writes a label wherever it is told with no check. A label on the interior of another net's wire, or on a crossing, joins that net to the label's name, and the tool reports plain success. A pressure test used it to recover from a routing refusal and it wrote wrong in 41 of 67 names, sheet_pin and bus cases.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Electrical Engineer
Team Size Impact
5x Multiplier
Prototype Delay
2 Days
Est. Annual Cost
$18,000
  • 1 user · 1 month240 min
  • Rest of team960 min
  • Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $18k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Analyst Notes

From the Grok ProductFlo pain-radar compilation, finding 49, found 2026-10-10, score 5/5. Verbatim evidence: "used to recover from a routing refusal, add_label wrote wrong in 41 of 67 names, sheet_pin and bus cases". Cost model assumes the merged nets are found in schematic review and the wiring reworked.