PowerLabKiCadAssistant (odtu) errors

4 recurring problems engineers report in PowerLabKiCadAssistant (odtu), ranked by impact.

#133 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring PowerLabKiCadAssistant (odtu) errors, by impact

  1. 1A KiCad assistant user reports a 30 second timeout on batch_add_and_connect after creating hierarchical subsheets.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  2. 2An auto-filed report from a Claude Code KiCad assistant on KiCad 10.0.5 and Windows. set_design_rules failed three times with "KiCad is busy and cannot respond to API requests right now", then succeeded on a later turn. The agent's reads worked and the write kept bouncing off the live editor.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  3. 3Auto-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.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  4. 4Auto-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.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure4

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