I've found the most annoying and time consuming parts in designing electronics to be: 1. sourcing parts & loading them into my schematic 2. finding semantic errors (like mislabeled nets) that the
traces is my own solution to both: 1. ground sourcing queries via LCSC/Mouser/Digikey MCP 2. have a skill that can look at your schematic and find typos and bugs that a normal rule check simply can't check
the kicad extension is super nice because you can search a part, then save its values (like mpn, price, qty available, datasheet!) directly to the schematic. the schematic should be the ground truth.
this is possible from a few: - local agents like claude code - kicad running locally - kicad files being plain text
Let me know if you have any feedback or future additions that might be useful here!