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Interactive routing session

begin_route

Start an interactive route at a pad.

Usage

begin_route <ref> <pad> [layer] [width_mm]

Angle brackets mark required arguments and square brackets optional ones. Available in the pcb editor. You can issue this yourself, and the AI agent issues the identical command — there is no second, hidden interface.

Arguments

ref
Required
pad
Required
layer
Optional
width_mm
Optional

2 required, 2 optional.

Behaviour

Nothing is committed until commit_route; cancel_route abandons it.

How the agent uses it

  • The agent works in a perceive / act / verify / recover loop: it describes the design, issues begin_route or another command, checks the result, and undoes the change if the check fails.
  • Commands report what they actually did. A refusal is a result, not a silent no-op — which is what lets the agent recover instead of building on a change that never happened.
  • Anything the agent can do here, you can do yourself, and the reverse.

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Try begin_route in the editor

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