KiCad paste-only pads became copper on import, mask and paste opening expansion used fixed constants, and Gerber, drill and CPL could use different origins. The fix makes one resolver feed Gerbers, DRC and silkscreen clearing, with one Output Origin for every file.
Recurring agent failure issue in reda (openreda)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in reda (openreda) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.
Failure pattern: validation / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 9-10 2026 (Nov 9 7:41 AM ET through Nov 10 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-10: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.
What it costs a team
Modeled annual cost
$30,000
For a team of 5
Prototype delay
3 days
Modeled schedule slip per occurrence
Time lost
240 min
Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents
How the cost is modeled
240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000
A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.
Engineering tools that address it
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Evidence
More recurring errors in reda (openreda)
- Writing the product spec for a new EDA tool, the author found four places where earlier decisions disagree, including auto net names written as Net-R1-1 in one issue and Net-(R1-1) in another. The bigger gap is where the BOM reads part data: the PCB's footprint copies hold only designator, value, footprint and pad nets, while the BOM needs LCSC, MPN and Not Fitted, which live on the schematic, and mechanical parts that exist only on the PCB have no home either way.ECAD · impact 74
- Free text and graphics on a copper layer are written to the Gerbers but aren't in the copper index, so DRC never checks them and zones don't clear around them. "Copper text can therefore short a Net without DRC noticing." Found in the v0.1 review.ECAD · impact 66
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