kicad-claudish-mcp.md

Creating kicad schematic with LLM

Pre-requisites

1. claude code
2. claudish https://github.com/MadAppGang/claudish
3. account with openrouter https://openrouter.ai/
4. kicad mcp server https://github.com/mixelpixx/KiCAD-MCP-Server

configuration

1. /.claude.json

add this snippet to main {}

"mcpServers": {
"kicad": {
  "command": "node",
  "args": ["path/to/KiCAD-MCP-Server/dist/index.js"],
  "env": {
    "PYTHONPATH": "C:/Program Files/KiCad/9.0/bin/python.exe",
    "LOG_LEVEL": "info"
  }
}

}

First test

prompt

$env:OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-some-key"  
npx claudish@latest --model xiaomi/mimo-v2-flash:free "Create a new KiCAD project named 'moo' in my current folder.  "