eda-agent

MCP server that lets an AI (or any MCP-compatible client) interact with a live Altium Designer session, with KiCad and EasyEDA Pro available as additional backends. It exposes around 450 tools on Altium, covering schematic, PCB, library, project, and design-agent operations, over a persistent DelphiScript bridge. The AI reads the design you currently have open, asks questions about it, and can modify it in place while you watch. The backend is selected at startup, so each user sees only their own tool set.

⚠️ Experimental. Not all tools are extensively tested. Some can crash the Altium DelphiScript engine. See Known limitations before using on any design you haven't backed up.

Demo

Claude Code reviewing a buck converter through eda-agent. The feedback resistor divider on this schematic is intentionally wrong; Claude catches it among other recommendations.

Support the project

Developing eda-agent and testing it against Altium's scripting engine takes a significant amount of work. If you find eda-agent useful in your work, a donation helps keep the progress going.

Dashboard

Two dashboards ship with eda-agent:

• In-Altium status window - a floating Altium-side window showing live status, request count, cumulative Altium-side time, auto-shutdown countdown, and a per-command log with durations. Hide pings filters the 30 s keep-alive traffic; Only >100ms isolates slow calls. The Detach button saves all dirty docs and exits the polling loop cleanly.
• Web dashboard - a local browser dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:8766, focused on design review. A Review tab surfaces datasheet / MPN / manufacturer / footprint coverage gauges and an actionable issue queue (missing datasheet, missing MPN, orphan nets, ...); Project, Components, Nets, Libraries and Plan tabs give live structured views. Click any component or net to drill into a detail drawer; one click cross-probes it into Altium. Light / dark theme, server-sent-events live feed. It is auto-started by the MCP server - the Open Dashboard button on the in-Altium status window launches the browser.

How it works

• Altium Designer stays open and in full control of your design
• A DelphiScript polling loop runs inside Altium's scripting engine
• eda-agent (Python, launched by your MCP client) sends commands via file-based IPC
• Altium executes, writes a response, and returns to polling
• You see the changes happen live in Altium

This is not a batch tool that opens a project, runs a script, and exits. It's a live connection for as long as you want it (conversational design review, guided refactoring, ad-hoc BOM queries, "what nets does this resistor connect to?"), all on the project you currently have open.

Features