[ { "verb": "kicad_ipc_api", "args": { "enable": true }, "response": { "_hint": "IPC API server is enabled. Pass enable:true|false to change it (KiCad must then be restarted).", "_timeoutHint": "ab waits up to 130s for this verb before the request times out. If it's a long operation (cloud open / download / export), DON'T treat a timeout as failure \u2014 the work usually keeps running on the bridge. Poll `kicad_status` until it reports done.", "bridgeVersion": "0.9.342", "changed": false, "durationMs": 36, "enabled": true, "error": "", "file": "C:/Users/azureuser/AppData/Roaming/kicad/10.0/kicad_common.json", "kicadSettingsVersion": "10.0", "kicadVersionUsed": "10.0", "needsRestart": false, "output": "", "schemaVersion": 1, "status": "ok", "statusVerb": "kicad_status", "success": true, "timeoutSeconds": 130 } }, { "verb": "kicad_open_board", "args": { "filePath": "C:/Users/azureuser/Documents/adom-kicad-verbtest/live/release-check-20260907.kicad_pcb" }, "response": { "_autoDialogs": { "count": 1, "dialogs": [ { "action": "left-running", "benign": true, "body": "Loading C:\\Users\\azureuser\\Documents\\adom-kicad-verbtest\\rp2040-breakout.kicad_sch... Elapsed time: 0:00:00", "progress": true, "title": "Load Schematic" } ], "hadError": false }, "_foregroundHint": "Window opened in the BACKGROUND - the user's foreground was not touched. To show it to the user: re-call with foreground:true AND foregroundReason:''. The bridge captions the reason via an ab toast for 3 seconds, then brings the window forward. Foreground without a reason is refused.", "_hint": "WARNING: KiCad may show modal dialogs (save prompts, file warnings, format errors) that block further commands. ALWAYS check kicad_window_info for hasModalDialogs after this command. If true, use kicad_screenshot_all to capture ALL windows including dialogs, pull_file to get screenshots to Docker, then read the dialog screenshot to decide how to handle it (force close, dismiss, retry).", "_timeoutHint": "ab waits up to 130s for this verb before the request times out. If it's a long operation (cloud open / download / export), DON'T treat a timeout as failure \u2014 the work usually keeps running on the bridge. Poll `kicad_status` until it reports done.", "_userFocusRestored": false, "_windowLabeledFor": "KiCad release verification", "bridgeVersion": "0.9.342", "durationMs": 363, "error": "", "kicadVersionUsed": "10.0", "openedInBackground": true, "output": "Launched PCB board editor with release-check-20260907.kicad_pcb", "progress": { "confidence": "typical", "elapsedSec": 0.1, "estimatedSec": 0.1, "etaSec": 0.0, "measured": { "phase": "kicad.show_2d_board", "seconds": 0.05, "startKind": "warm" }, "percent": 100, "phase": "kicad.show_2d_board", "startKind": "warm", "stepLabel": "done" }, "schemaVersion": 1, "status": "ok", "statusVerb": "kicad_status", "success": true, "timeoutSeconds": 130, "windowEtiquette": "background" } }, { "verb": "kicad_open_schematic", "args": { "filePath": "C:/Users/azureuser/Documents/adom-kicad-verbtest/rp2040-breakout.kicad_sch" }, "response": { "_autoDialogs": { "count": 3, "dialogs": [ { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": true, "body": "Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering OpenGL 2.1 or higher is required!", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-462402-1788805380409.png", "title": "Information" }, { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": true, "body": "Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering OpenGL 2.1 or higher is required!", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-199070-1788805381711.png", "title": "Information" }, { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": true, "body": "Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering OpenGL 2.1 or higher is required!", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-5309734-1788805382229.png", "title": "Information" } ], "hadError": false }, "_foregroundHint": "Window opened in the BACKGROUND - the user's foreground was not touched. To show it to the user: re-call with foreground:true AND foregroundReason:''. The bridge captions the reason via an ab toast for 3 seconds, then brings the window forward. Foreground without a reason is refused.", "_hint": "WARNING: KiCad may show modal dialogs (save prompts, file warnings, format errors) that block further commands. ALWAYS check kicad_window_info for hasModalDialogs after this command. If true, use kicad_screenshot_all to capture ALL windows including dialogs, pull_file to get screenshots to Docker, then read the dialog screenshot to decide how to handle it (force close, dismiss, retry).", "_timeoutHint": "ab waits up to 130s for this verb before the request times out. If it's a long operation (cloud open / download / export), DON'T treat a timeout as failure \u2014 the work usually keeps running on the bridge. Poll `kicad_status` until it reports done.", "_userFocusRestored": false, "_windowLabeledFor": "KiCad release verification", "bridgeVersion": "0.9.342", "durationMs": 2778, "error": "", "kicadVersionUsed": "10.0", "openedInBackground": true, "output": "Launched schematic editor with rp2040-breakout.kicad_sch", "progress": { "confidence": "typical", "elapsedSec": 0.0, "estimatedSec": 0.0, "etaSec": 0.0, "measured": { "phase": "kicad.show_schematic", "seconds": 0.04, "startKind": "warm" }, "percent": 100, "phase": "kicad.show_schematic", "startKind": "warm", "stepLabel": "done" }, "schemaVersion": 1, "status": "ok", "statusVerb": "kicad_status", "success": true, "timeoutSeconds": 130, "windowEtiquette": "background" } }, { "verb": "desktop_list_windows", "args": {}, "response": { "durationMs": 25, "error": "", "output": "{\"data\":{\"_hint\":null,\"degraded\":false,\"windows\":[{\"className\":\"wxWindowNR\",\"enabled\":true,\"hung\":false,\"hwnd\":462302,\"image\":\"pcbnew.exe\",\"kind\":\"normal\",\"maximized\":false,\"minimized\":false,\"owner\":0,\"pid\":6244,\"rect\":{\"bottom\":720,\"height\":720,\"left\":0,\"right\":1280,\"top\":0,\"width\":1280},\"title\":\"[no footprint loaded] \u2014 Footprint Editor\",\"z\":0},{\"className\":\"wxWindowNR\",\"enabled\":true,\"hung\":false,\"hwnd\":4261200,\"image\":\"pcbnew.exe\",\"kind\":\"normal\",\"maximized\":true,\"minimized\":false,\"owner\":0,\"pid\":6244,\"rect\":{\"bottom\":1240,\"height\":1248,\"left\":-8,\"right\":2056,\"top\":-8,\"width\":2064},\"title\":\"rp2040-breakout \u2014 PCB Editor\",\"z\":1},{\"className\":\"wxWindowNR\",\"enabled\":true,\"hung\":false,\"hwnd\":1117528,\"image\":\"eeschema.exe\",\"kind\":\"normal\",\"maximized\":true,\"minimized\":false,\"owner\":0,\"pid\":5220,\"rect\":{\"bottom\":1240,\"height\":1248,\"left\":-8,\"right\":2056,\"top\":-8,\"width\":2064},\"title\":\"rp2040-breakout \u2014 Schematic Editor\",\"z\":2},{\"className\":\"Tauri Window\",\"enabled\":true,\"hung\":false,\"hwnd\":1639704,\"image\":\"hydrogen.exe\",\"kind\":\"normal\",\"maximized\":false,\"minimized\":false,\"owner\":0,\"pid\":9332,\"rect\":{\"bottom\":1210,\"height\":1179,\"left\":51,\"right\":2013,\"top\":31,\"width\":1962},\"title\":\"Hydrogen v1.0.202 \u00b7 release \u00b7 Sep 5 7:55 AM \u00b7 signed \u00b7 AB 2.1.68\",\"z\":3},{\"className\":\"Chrome_WidgetWin_1\",\"enabled\":true,\"hung\":false,\"hwnd\":15664808,\"image\":\"chrome.exe\",\"kind\":\"normal\",\"maximized\":false,\"minimized\":false,\"owner\":0,\"pid\":15140,\"rect\":{\"bottom\":1222,\"height\":1212,\"left\":10,\"right\":2038,\"top\":10,\"width\":2028},\"title\":\"Pup - Puppeteer Bridge - Adom Wiki - Google Chrome for Testing\",\"z\":4}]},\"message\":\"Found 5 visible windows\"}", "schemaVersion": 1, "status": "ok", "success": true, "timeoutSeconds": 10 } }, { "verb": "kicad_errors", "args": {}, "response": { "_autoDialogs": { "count": 4, "dialogs": [ { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": true, "body": "Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering OpenGL 2.1 or higher is required!", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-788492-1788805387223.png", "title": "Information" }, { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": true, "body": "Could not use OpenGL, falling back to software rendering OpenGL 2.1 or higher is required!", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-462442-1788805387754.png", "title": "Information" }, { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": false, "body": "Schematic 'C:\\Users\\azureuser\\Documents\\adom-kicad-verbtest\\rp2040-breakout.kicad_sch' is already open by 'azureuser' at 'winvm'. Interleaved saves may produce very unexpected results.", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-527978-1788805388553.png", "title": "File Open Warning" }, { "action": "clicked-button", "benign": false, "body": "PCB 'release-check-20260907.kicad_pcb' is already open by 'azureuser' at 'winvm'. Interleaved saves may produce very unexpected results.", "screenshot": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-bridge-shots/window-200808-1788805389604.png", "title": "File Open Warning" } ], "hadError": true }, "_dialogHint": "\u26a0 KiCad popped 4 dialog(s) during this verb (non-benign: \"File Open Warning\", \"File Open Warning\"). Each was screenshotted (see _autoDialogs[].screenshot + .body) and auto-expired so you're unblocked. If your verb 'failed'/'did not open', this dialog is almost certainly why \u2014 read the body and act on it.", "_hint": "KiCad has NO log file and in GUI mode its errors go to DIALOGS, not stderr \u2014 so this is where a GUI failure reason lives. Read-only: nothing is clicked or raised. THREE channels, use all three: (1) this verb; (2) kicad_log_tail for what bypasses wxLog \u2014 crashes, asserts, stdio; (3) kicad_screenshot_all when the first two say nothing and the result is still wrong \u2014 the pixels have no preconditions and remain the floor under any automation loop. Dismiss with kicad_dismiss_dialogs (which DOES foreground, so caption first).", "_timeoutHint": "ab waits up to 130s for this verb before the request times out. If it's a long operation (cloud open / download / export), DON'T treat a timeout as failure \u2014 the work usually keeps running on the bridge. Poll `kicad_status` until it reports done.", "bridgeVersion": "0.9.342", "count": 0, "dialogs": [], "durationMs": 4389, "error": "", "kicadVersionUsed": "10.0", "output": "", "schemaVersion": 1, "status": "ok", "statusVerb": "kicad_status", "success": true, "timeoutSeconds": 130, "windowSource": "ad:desktop_list_windows" } }, { "verb": "kicad_status", "args": {}, "response": { "_hint": "If alive=0 but you expect a running KiCad, the adom_bridge.py plugin isn't deployed at its USER_SITE location. Call kicad_install_plugin to force a fresh deploy (auto-install runs once per bridge boot; the explicit verb bypasses the cache). Otherwise the file is stale \u2014 pass pruneStale:true to clean those up. v1.7.6+ supports multiple instances per exe (one row per PID).", "_timeoutHint": "ab waits up to 130s for this verb before the request times out. If it's a long operation (cloud open / download / export), DON'T treat a timeout as failure \u2014 the work usually keeps running on the bridge. Poll `kicad_status` until it reports done.", "bridgeVersion": "0.9.342", "durationMs": 61, "error": "", "kicadVersionUsed": "10.0", "output": "", "plugins": [ { "alive": true, "discoveryFile": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-kicad-bridge-pcbnew-3204.json", "endpoint": "http://127.0.0.1:8872/rpc", "exeName": "pcbnew", "pid": 3204, "port": 8872, "requestCount": 0, "startedAt": "2026-09-07T18:22:58.887000Z", "uptimeMs": 12837, "version": "0.9.2" }, { "alive": true, "discoveryFile": "C:/Users/AZUREU~1/AppData/Local/Temp/adom-kicad-bridge-pcbnew-6244.json", "endpoint": "http://127.0.0.1:8871/rpc", "exeName": "pcbnew", "pid": 6244, "port": 8871, "requestCount": 2, "startedAt": "2026-09-07T18:22:33.650000Z", "uptimeMs": 38080, "version": "0.9.2" } ], "schemaVersion": 1, "status": "ok", "statusVerb": "kicad_status", "success": true, "summary": { "alive": 2, "total": 2 }, "timeoutSeconds": 130 } } ]