What people ask first.

The files a factory needs to build your board: gerbers, a parts list (BOM) and a placement file (CPL) for JLCPCB, checked against the factory’s own rules for your layer count. Along the way it picks the parts, writes the schematic, and places and routes the board.

No. Everything is written for a smart newcomer: each question comes with two or three whole options, one recommended, and the trade-off in plain words. If you do design boards, the exact values and their sources are one click away.

It doesn’t. The agent builds; separate checks it cannot write to or overrule decide. Some questions only a person can answer, such as whether the pin map is right. Those wait for your sign-off.

Only from verified sources: a part with an LCSC number in JLCPCB’s catalogue, or a generic passive. Footprints are never hand-drawn and pinouts are never guessed.

Yes. Click any part, value, placement or rule and you see why it is there, with its source: a datasheet section, the brief, a checkpoint or your own words. The record is append-only.

macOS and Windows. Linux comes later.

No. atopile, KiCad, Freerouting and a JLCPCB parts catalogue ship inside the app, ready on first launch. What ships, and at which version, is at the end of this page.

They stay on your computer, in folders you own. This website stores your account and nothing about your designs.

Make an account and confirm your email. You join the early-access list, and we email you when your invite is ready.

Make the decisions. A project moves through eight steps, and five of them end at a checkpoint where you choose: requirements, architecture, parts and supply, the pre-fabrication review and the fab order. You also pick how much the agent does on its own.

You choose, and can change it at any time. Suggest proposes every change, and nothing lands until you accept it. Step finishes one step, then waits for you. Gated, the default, works freely between checkpoints and stops at each one. Full runs all the way to the factory files. At every level, ordering is yours.

Yes. Pause the agent and edit; what you changed becomes a lock it must work around. You can route any connection by hand, or keep all the signal routing for yourself.

Never. It hands you the factory files and you upload them to JLCPCB yourself, when you are ready. That holds even at Full autonomy.

JLCPCB today. The parts catalogue, the design rules and the factory files are all JLCPCB’s.

Yes. Every project is a folder of plain files in a git repository: the source, the KiCad board, the brief, the decision record and the factory files. Leave with the folder and you lose nothing.