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I gave Claude Code ~600 tools to drive Altium Designer. Here it designs a full 4-layer PCB from a written spec

I’m an electronics design engineer, and for the past few months I’ve been building eda-agent, an open-source MCP server that lets Claude work directly inside Altium Designer (the CAD tool used to design circuit boards). Claude edits the design that’s actually open in Altium, live, while you watch.…

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  1. 2026-10-28 15:22 · r/ClaudeAI
    I gave Claude Code ~600 tools to drive Altium Designer. Here it designs a full 4-layer PCB from a written spec

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