Tscircuit Skill

Why it's ranked here

Its value comes from unusually concrete operational guidance. The agent gets an ordered validation loop, explicit rules against guessing component properties, and practical recovery steps for routing failures and copper shorts. The material also distinguishes interactive preview work from build-oriented agent iteration. However, it depends on the separate tscircuit toolchain and leaves final engineering responsibility with the user.

What's good

The workflow catches problems in a sensible order: connectivity, schematic placement, board placement, routing difficulty, then shorts. Component discovery covers registry packages, KiCad footprints, JLCPCB, DigiKey, and Mouser, with clear limits on which sources support direct import. Examples teach typed pin labels, semantic pin attributes, named power nets, reusable layouts, supplier identifiers, and visual regression snapshots.

Tradeoffs

This is guidance and reference material, not a standalone circuit application. Its templates must be copied into an initialized project, and some require extra packages. Distributor stock and price data are cached snapshots, while direct importing is limited to JLCPCB and the tscircuit registry. Development guidance permits postponing some design-rule violations, so users still need a disciplined fabrication review.

How to use it well

Use it when an agent is editing an existing tscircuit project or helping start one from clear electrical and mechanical requirements. Follow its staged checks during every substantial layout change, then use snapshots for visual inspection and regression testing. It does not replace datasheets, electrical safety analysis, regulatory compliance, manufacturability review, or user approval for publishing and ordering.

Observed

License

MIT License

Install surface

Agent skill installed with npx skills add tscircuit/skill

Canonical interface

SKILL.md agent instruction entrypoint

Toolchain interface

Documents the tsci command-line interface for project creation, search, checks, builds, snapshots, exports, authentication, and publishing

Project language

Circuit examples use React and TypeScript TSX

Runtime prerequisites

The documented tscircuit CLI requires Node.js or Bun

Repository structure

Includes instruction references, element documentation, helper scripts, and four reference TSX templates