Konnect lets Claude design PCBs inside KiCad 10 through a single Rust binary

AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

Konnect is a beta KiCad 10 plugin that exposes 228 schematic, layout, routing, and manufacturing tools to Claude and other LLMs via MCP. The Rust binary replaces the original Python/TypeScript stack, cutting four serialization boundaries to one function call, using KiCad's official IPC API instead of deprecated SWIG bindings, and loading toolsets on demand to save context. It handles atomic schematic edits, real-time PCB routing, ERC/DRC, JLCPCB part search, and production exports.