About BoardRepo

From an assistant to a board you can inspect

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or another MCP client to find real hardware projects and read their schematics, nets, BOMs, and files. Where the save permission is offered, an assistant you explicitly authorize can create personal boards and save new versions of boards you own. Reading a board never grants permission to change it.

Our aim is to let you delegate more of the design work while keeping a project you can open, review, and continue yourself. The available tools depend on your connection and the assistant you use. Connect your AI explains setup and permissions; the live tool list describes what your connection can do.

Keep the design, its versions, and its context together

Upload a project folder or import it from GitHub. BoardRepo preserves the source and gives the board a browser page with its available schematic, PCB, 3D, and BOM outputs. Published versions keep their own files, and signed-in readers can compare revisions visually. A successful upload does not guarantee that every rendering stage succeeds.

KiCad has the most complete rendering support. Altium sources are preserved and converted for viewing; review the original in Altium. BoardRepo generates fabrication outputs for supported KiCad designs, not from converted Altium designs.

Continue in KiCad

BoardRepo for KiCad adds Push and Pull to the editor toolbar. Push saves a version; Pull brings the saved project back into KiCad. The plugin needs KiCad 9.0.1 or newer for the PCB Editor, or KiCad 10 for the Schematic Editor. Follow the download page for available platforms and setup.

Share work with your team

An organization owns the team's boards and version history. Admins invite members and assign board access, so work stays with the organization when someone leaves. Sharing and visual comparison support asynchronous review; they do not merge simultaneous CAD edits. Organization access through an AI connection is separately approved and read-only.

Personal core features are free. The Team plan includes organization setup with custom pricing. Contact us about Team to arrange access. Enterprise deployment and integration needs are agreed with you.

Start from real open hardware

The public library contains thousands of boards, searchable by components and tags. Public boards can be viewed without an account or CAD software. Check each project's licence before using or adapting its files; public visibility does not replace the author's licence.

Your source and your permissions

Every published version can be downloaded. Choose public, unlisted, password-protected, or restricted sharing for the board. Ask sends relevant board context to an AI provider when used; connected assistants receive only the access you approve. BoardRepo's terms do not grant model-training rights over your projects.

Works alongside GitHub

Keep firmware and code review in GitHub while BoardRepo makes the hardware inspectable. Public repositories can be imported by URL; private repositories need the BoardRepo GitHub App and your approval. The App can follow an imported repository's default branch. See BoardRepo and GitHub for the differences and a workflow using both.

Get started

Browse the open hardware library, read the FAQ, or share your own project. Viewing and downloading public projects never needs an account.