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PowerLabKiCadAssistant (odtu)ECADConfidence: Medium

Auto-filed reports from the Claude Code KiCad assistant on KiCad 10.0.5. A kicad-cli BOM export was blocked because a braced variable in the field list "can't be checked before it runs". Later the agent wrote, "the panel won't let me run Edge or Word to turn the HTML into a PDF or Word file." Board reads and checks worked. Getting the output into a format someone else uses didn't.

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, Nov 2 2026 (Nov 2 8:41 AM ET through Nov 2 10:41 PM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-03: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.