workspace-ee-test (ThyFriendlyFox) errors

4 recurring problems engineers report in workspace-ee-test (ThyFriendlyFox), ranked by impact.

#141 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring workspace-ee-test (ThyFriendlyFox) errors, by impact

  1. 1An agent-generated board passed ERC and DRC while its schematics were just symbols with stubs and net labels, nothing actually wired, and MCU, charger and SOT-523 drivers were missing from every 3D view since v0.6.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report82
  2. 2A running mistakes log from an agent-built STM32C071 board with USB-C firmware upload: M57, a peg slot keep-out drawn across the slot because the long axis came from the footprint file at rotation 0, not the placed board; M58, a firmware update path no user could reach, since the coin cell never powers the board down and the planned jump would carry a running watchdog into ROM DFU; M59, a CRLF parts catalogue rewritten whole by Python's csv module. Every one is a context gap between layout, firmware and the real device.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  3. 3In KiCad a custom .kicad_dru rule overrides the board and every net class: the Sierra fab rule set (4 mil clearance, 6 mil hole and ring) pulled 0.2 mm and 0.15 mm net-class clearances down to 4 mil, and pours filled 0.1 mm from pads, so the Last Hit v0.12 board passed DRC that way, while a copy without the rule file had 436 errors. Fab rules are meant to add floors, never loosen. Logged as mistake M62.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  4. 4They vendored kistack's 11 KiCad agent skills, but kistack reads boards through KiCad's IPC API, which needs a running KiCad, and KiCad 10's kicad-cli has no api-server; so they wrote a shim answering the same ipc_board.load() call from the board file with pcbnew. They also had to override skill rules, like 'the design file is the source of truth, so no IPC edits of a generated board' and 'the gates decide done.'ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74

How it fails

  1. Agent failure4

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