KiCAD PRISM · DOCUMENTATION

Open‑source, self‑hosted review, release and component‑governance platform for teams using KiCad

KiCad stays the editor and Git the source of truth. Prism adds the rest: every revision in the browser, reviews with comments, signed-off release packages and a governed library that desktop KiCad places parts from, all on your own hardware.

Try it on your machine What Prism is GitHub

The Prism workspace: projects in the sidebar and a gallery of project cards with rendered board thumbnails

Title: KiCAD Prism
Licence: Apache-2.0
Runs: Self-hosted
Reads: KiCad in Git

What your team does with it

U1/use/viewing-designs

Every revision, in the browserSchematic, PCB, 3D and BOM at any commit, cross-probed, with nothing to install.

U2/use/design-comparison

What changed, and whereCommit against commit: parts, nets, BOM and stackup, each change classified and placed.

U3/use/comments

Comments that stay putPinned to a part, a net or an area at an exact commit, with class, severity and replies.

U4/use/release-studio

From commit to releaseJobset outputs, a release dossier and sign-off before anything reaches the fab.

U5/use/library-manager

One library across reposReviewed, immutable part revisions your designers place straight into KiCad.

U6Experimental/use/simulation-studio

Simulation StudioDC IR drop on the real copper, rail by rail.

U7/automate/overview

Built for AI agents and automationAn MCP server lets Claude Code and other agents search projects, compare revisions, leave review comments and take a new part to QA review, as you and within your permissions. The same work is open to scripts and CI through the API, SDK, CLI and webhooks.

Designs shown on this site

Project	Author	Source	License
ThunderScope	EEVengers	EEVengers/ThunderScope	MIT
Cynthion	Great Scott Gadgets	greatscottgadgets/cynthion-hardware	CERN-OHL-P v2
Jetson AGX Thor baseboard	Antmicro	antmicro/jetson-agx-thor-baseboard	Apache-2.0
WREN (vme-wren, vme-wren-fp-single, EDA-04903, EDA-04949)	CERN, BE-CEM	be-cem-edl/chronos/wren/wren-hw	CERN-OHL-W v2 or later and CC BY-SA 4.0, as stated on the schematic sheets
OpenSwitch 10x10G carrier and LAN969x	Quentin Freimanis	qfreiman/openswitch-10x10g-carrier, qfreiman/openswitch-lan969x	No license is stated in the repositories; see them for the author’s terms
USB-PD-Trigger-Board	Krishna Swaroop (Prism maintainer)	krishna-swaroop/USB-PD-Trigger-Board	MIT

These are public KiCad projects by other designers, imported into Prism the way a team would import its own. The component catalog in the Library Manager screenshots is CERN’s public KiCad database library. If you are an author of one of these designs and would like a screenshot changed, credited differently or removed, please open an issue.