Claude-for-Hardware

Claude Code skills for hardware design, validation, and bring-up.

A plugin of focused skills that teach Claude how to do real hardware work: designing reusable HDL, integrating an SoC, bringing up FPGAs and bare-metal targets, building firmware boot chains, verifying designs against golden models, validating codegen on real silicon, prepping a tapeout, and packaging EDA tools in Nix. Each skill is domain-general but carries Midstall's house style: failures should fail, fix the root cause, read the datasheet, test like it's going to silicon, and write in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

Skill Use when hdl-module-design Writing or refactoring an HDL module and you need it parameterized, validated, and testable reference-driven-rohd Implementing a block/protocol/peripheral in ROHD and you should fetch the spec, references, and reusable libs first instead of writing from memory rohd-rtl-gotchas Building or testing RTL in ROHD/rohd_bridge/rohd_hcl and hitting hierarchy, sim-setup, or SV-emission errors soc-integration Composing an SoC from peripherals and a bus, or generating device trees / ACPI from one description rtl-area-timing Optimizing RTL microarchitecture for area or Fmax when a design won't fit or meet timing fpga-synthesis-fit Synthesizing with yosys/nextpnr, fighting area/congestion, measuring Fmax, or instantiating block RAM fpga-bringup Loading a bitstream onto a real FPGA and driving it over JTAG/GPIO bare-metal-bringup Bringing up bare-metal or kernel code on a new arch/board that won't boot or hangs firmware-boot-chain Building or debugging a firmware/boot chain (SBI/UEFI/ACPI/bootloader) or measured boot differential-verification Verifying a DUT against a golden reference model with coverage-guided fuzzing codegen-validation Proving a compiler backend's output by executing it on a real CPU or fast emulator tapeout-precheck Prepping a design for tapeout: DRC/LVS signoff, submission packaging nix-eda-packaging Packaging EDA toolchains in Nix without dlopen/wrapper hacks silicon-grade-discipline Any silicon-bound code facing a fast-vs-correct tradeoff (the shared backbone) Beyond skills The plugin ships more than the skill files.

Agents ( agents/ ) bundle the relevant skills into a focused reviewer you can dispatch at the right moment:

Commands ( commands/ ) are guided entry points that drive a workflow:

Hooks ( hooks/ ) enforce the house style mechanically: a write-time check rejects em dashes, emoji, and malformed SKILL.md frontmatter, so the rules are automated rather than repeated in prose. The same logic runs in CI via scripts/lint-skills.sh .

Evals ( evals/ ) are the benchmarks that prove the skills earn their keep: usefulness (do they beat the unaided model), discovery (do they fire at the right time), and adversarial discovery (do they resist bait and stay quiet on vague prompts). See evals/README.md . These skills are measured, not asserted.

Add the marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add Midstall/claude-for-hardware /plugin install claude-for-hardware Skills activate automatically when their trigger conditions match. You can also invoke one directly by name.