# agentee guides

> Guides to designing electronics with agentee and a coding agent: the first board, agent setup, stackups, parts, schematics, layout, impedance, HDI, FDTD and cascade, eyes and PDN, DC drop and thermal, logic sims, the fab package, the viewer and CI.

## Start here

- [Your first board](https://agentee.sh/guides/getting-started/index.html.md): From an empty directory to a checked, routed two layer board and a fab package: board spec, KiCad parts, a schematic, placement, routing and Gerbers.
- [Set up your coding agent](https://agentee.sh/guides/agents/index.html.md): Install the agentee skill, add the MCP server to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client, and give the agent a brief it can work from.
- [Coming from KiCad](https://agentee.sh/guides/kicad/index.html.md): What agentee takes from KiCad and what it does differently: the libraries it imports from, importing a whole board, and how the concepts map.

## Design

- [Board specs, stackups and net classes](https://agentee.sh/guides/board-spec/index.html.md): Pick a fab and a real stackup, define a net class per kind of net, and put impedance and current targets on them so check solves the widths.
- [Parts: import or draw](https://agentee.sh/guides/parts/index.html.md): Search and import KiCad symbols and footprints, fix what the fab rejects, and build a part from its datasheet when KiCad does not have it.
- [Writing schematics](https://agentee.sh/guides/schematics/index.html.md): Parts, nets and classes with agentee edit, batches of commands, sheets for large designs, and the signal level check that catches dividers between VIL and VIH.
- [Placement, routing and pours](https://agentee.sh/guides/layout/index.html.md): Automatic placement, ground and supply pours, plane ties, the autorouter, silk labels, test pads and the design rule checks that gate the fab package.
- [Controlled impedance and pairs](https://agentee.sh/guides/impedance/index.html.md): Closed form and GPU field solved trace widths, coplanar RF lines, differential pairs, length matching and interfaces like USB 3.
- [HDI: microvias and lamination](https://agentee.sh/guides/hdi/index.html.md): Blind, buried and microvias, stacked and skip vias, via-in-pad, backdrills and controlled depth drilling, and how the lamination decides what can be drilled.

## Simulate

- [RF simulation: FDTD and cascade](https://agentee.sh/guides/rf-simulation/index.html.md): Run a full-wave FDTD of a layout on the GPU, drop vendor S-parameters and noise data into it, and read gain, noise figure, match and stability.
- [Eye diagrams, PDN and S-parameters](https://agentee.sh/guides/signal-integrity/index.html.md): Push a bit stream through a channel and read the eye, check a power rail’s impedance against a target, and run TDR, mixed-mode and crosstalk analysis.
- [DC drop and thermal](https://agentee.sh/guides/power-and-thermal/index.html.md): Solve every copper layer for voltage drop and current density, then the board’s temperature with each part’s power, in seconds.
- [Logic simulation](https://agentee.sh/guides/logic-simulation/index.html.md): Simulate the digital parts of a schematic straight from its netlist: 74 series models, stimulus, assertions, setup and hold checks, and a VCD out.

## Ship

- [Fab package, BOM and pricing](https://agentee.sh/guides/fab/index.html.md): Write Gerbers, drills, BOM and placement for JLCPCB or any fab, price the BOM at Mouser and Farnell, and export a STEP for the enclosure.
- [The viewer](https://agentee.sh/guides/viewer/index.html.md): A live window that reloads on every save, where a person can watch the agent work, move parts, route tracks and place vias by hand.
- [Checking designs in CI](https://agentee.sh/guides/ci/index.html.md): Run agentee check on every push, fail the build on errors, keep simulation results fresh, and attach a fab package to a release.