Placing objects
place_power
Place a power/ground symbol driving a named net.
Usage
place_power <NetName> <X> <Y>Angle brackets mark required arguments and square brackets optional ones. Available in the schematic editor. You can issue this yourself, and the AI agent issues the identical command — there is no second, hidden interface.
Arguments
NetNameXY3 required, 0 optional.
Behaviour
Power and ground are placed as symbols, not wired and not labelled. Every power symbol driving the same net name is one net design-wide, with no wire between them, and the net takes that name — power outranks every label as a net driver. X and Y are in mm, as for place_symbol. Prefer this over running a wire to a shared ground point: it is what the schematic convention expects, and it keeps the sheet readable as the design grows. The loaded libraries must contain a power symbol that DRIVES the net asked for: the glyph is the net, so there is no substituting one rail's symbol for another. When there is none the verb refuses and names the nets that do have symbols — pick one of those, or load a library that carries the rail you want.
How the agent uses it
- The agent works in a perceive / act / verify / recover loop: it describes the design, issues
place_poweror 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.
Try place_power in the editor
Free to start on macOS, Windows and Linux. Bring your existing KiCad and Altium libraries.