Kicad Mcp Server

io.github.bunnyfPublished by GitHub account bunnyfv3.5.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

MCP server for AI-assisted PCB design with KiCad 9.x

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Local MCP server that lets an AI assistant help with PCB design in KiCad 9.x.

What you can do
  • The listing names no individual tools, so capabilities are known only at a high level.
  • It is described as an MCP server for AI-assisted PCB design with KiCad 9.x.
  • It runs as a local process on the user's machine over stdio, so the assistant works alongside a local KiCad installation.
When to use it
Consider it when you want an assistant to help with printed circuit board design work in KiCad 9.x on your own desktop, rather than in a browser or hosted environment.
Requirements
Runs locally as a Python package (kicad-mcp-server) launched with uvx over stdio; a desktop environment is required and it is not web-executable. KiCad 9.x is implied by the description. No authentication, environment variables or headers are declared.
Before you install
The registry entry lists no tools, so what the server can read or change in your KiCad projects is not documented here; review the package before installing. The supplied README is generic registry documentation and does not describe this server's behavior.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Kicad Mcp Server in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

MCP Registry

The MCP registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers.

📤 Publish my MCP server | ⚡️ Live API docs | 👀 Ecosystem vision | 📖 Full documentation

Development Status

2025-10-24 update: The Registry API has entered an API freeze (v0.1) 🎉. For the next month or more, the API will remain stable with no breaking changes, allowing integrators to confidently implement support. This freeze applies to v0.1 while development continues on v0. We'll use this period to validate the API in real-world integrations and gather feedback to shape v1 for general availability. Thank you to everyone for your contributions and patience—your involvement has been key to getting us here!

2025-09-08 update: The registry has launched in preview 🎉 (announcement blog post). While the system is now more stable, this is still a preview release and breaking changes or data resets may occur. A general availability (GA) release will follow later. We'd love your feedback in GitHub discussions or in the #registry-dev Discord (joining details here).

Current key maintainers:

Contributing

We use multiple channels for collaboration - see modelcontextprotocol.io/community/communication.

Often (but not always) ideas flow through this pipeline:

  • Discord - Real-time community discussions
  • Discussions - Propose and discuss product/technical requirements
  • Issues - Track well-scoped technical work
  • Pull Requests - Contribute work towards issues

Quick start:

Pre-requisites
Running the server
bash
# Start full development environmentmake dev-compose

This starts the registry at localhost:8080 with PostgreSQL. The database uses ephemeral storage and is reset each time you restart the containers, ensuring a clean state for development and testing.

Note: The registry uses ko to build container images. The make dev-compose command automatically builds the registry image with ko and loads it into your local Docker daemon before starting the services.

By default, the registry seeds from the production API with a filtered subset of servers (to keep startup fast). This ensures your local environment mirrors production behavior and all seed data passes validation. For offline development you can seed from a file without validation with MCP_REGISTRY_SEED_FROM=data/seed.json MCP_REGISTRY_ENABLE_REGISTRY_VALIDATION=false make dev-compose.

The setup can be configured with environment variables in docker-compose.yml - see .env.example for a reference.

Alternative: Running a pre-built Docker image

Pre-built Docker images are automatically published to GitHub Container Registry:

bash
# Run latest stable releasedocker run -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:latest
# Run latest from main branch (continuous deployment)docker run -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:main
# Run specific release versiondocker run -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:v1.0.0
# Run development build from main branchdocker run -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:main-20250906-abc123d

Available tags:

  • Releases: latest, v1.0.0, v1.1.0, etc.
  • Continuous: main (latest main branch build)
  • Development: main-<date>-<sha> (specific commit builds)
Publishing a server

To publish a server, we've built a simple CLI. You can use it with:

bash
# Build the latest CLImake publisher
# Use it!./bin/mcp-publisher --help

See the publisher guide for more details.

Other commands
bash
# Run lint, unit tests and integration testsmake check

There are also a few more helpful commands for development. Run make help to learn more, or look in Makefile.

Architecture

Project Structure

├── cmd/                     # Application entry points│   └── publisher/           # Server publishing tool├── data/                    # Seed data├── deploy/                  # Deployment configuration (Pulumi)├── docs/                    # Documentation├── internal/                # Private application code│   ├── api/                 # HTTP handlers and routing│   ├── auth/                # Authentication (GitHub OAuth, JWT, namespace blocking)│   ├── config/              # Configuration management│   ├── database/            # Data persistence (PostgreSQL)│   ├── service/             # Business logic│   ├── telemetry/           # Metrics and monitoring│   └── validators/          # Input validation├── pkg/                     # Public packages│   ├── api/                 # API types and structures│   │   └── v0/              # Version 0 API types│   └── model/               # Data models for server.json├── scripts/                 # Development and testing scripts├── tests/                   # Integration tests└── tools/                   # CLI tools and utilities    └── validate-*.sh        # Schema validation tools

Authentication

Publishing supports multiple authentication methods:

  • GitHub OAuth - For publishing by logging into GitHub
  • GitHub OIDC - For publishing from GitHub Actions
  • DNS verification - For proving ownership of a domain and its subdomains
  • HTTP verification - For proving ownership of a domain

The registry validates namespace ownership when publishing. E.g. to publish...:

  • io.github.domdomegg/my-cool-mcp you must login to GitHub as domdomegg, or be in a GitHub Action on domdomegg's repos
  • me.adamjones/my-cool-mcp you must prove ownership of adamjones.me via DNS or HTTP challenge

Community Projects

Check out community projects to explore notable registry-related work created by the community.

More documentation

See the documentation for more details if your question has not been answered here!

Source: README.md at commit 9073fb3

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

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  1. v3.5.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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