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Electronics and embedded engineering judgment, distilled from a stronger model - invoke when CHOOSING components, MCUs, modules, or interfaces; designing or reviewing a circuit, power tree, or PCB; writing embedded firmware; debugging physical hardware (resets, noise, dead boards
Rule content lives in the five files below; this SKILL.md only routes
(doctrine/04-maintenance.md governs edits to this bundle too).
| You are about to… | Read (in this folder) |
|---|---|
| Pick an MCU, module, sensor, or any component; judge a BOM or parts proposal | parts.md |
| Design or review a circuit: power, protection, interfaces, layout concerns | circuits.md |
| Write or review embedded firmware (loops, ISRs, watchdogs, OTA, flash) | firmware.md |
| Debug a physical board, plan first power-up, or validate before shipping | bringup.md |
| Estimate battery life or a power budget ("how long on a 2000mAh cell?") | circuits.md §1 + traps.md A5 — peak budgeting, measured charge per duty cycle |
| Review a hardware project's health; name why a design or process feels fragile | traps.md |
A new design usually runs parts.md → circuits.md (power tree first) → firmware.md,
with bringup.md §1 consulted BEFORE layout — bring-up is designed, not improvised.
Physical-world engineering judgment. Firmware architecture inherits backend/logic.md
(this bundle adds the physics); debugging inherits methods/investigate.md (this bundle
adds instruments and the four failure domains); whether to delegate → doctrine.
The physical world is analog, undocumented, and expensive to iterate: derate, measure,
and design for bring-up — and treat every datasheet as a contract whose real terms are
in the footnotes (parts.md §4). One honest limit governs all debugging here: the model
cannot see the board, so measurements come before theories (bringup.md §4).
user-invocable: false name: hardware description: Electronics and embedded engineering judgment, distilled from a stronger model - invoke when CHOOSING components, MCUs, modules, or interfaces; designing or reviewing a circuit, power tree, or PCB; writing embedded firmware; debugging physical hardware (resets, noise, dead boards, flaky sensors); or planning bring-up and validation of a new board. Scenario-driven part selection, electrical design margins, firmware-for-unattended-devices rules, bench debugging discipline, and a trap catalog.
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description: Electronics and embedded engineering judgment, distilled from a stronger model - invoke when CHOOSING components, MCUs, modules, or interfaces; designing or reviewing a circuit, power tree, or PCB; writing embedded firmware; debugging physical hardware (resets, noise, dead boards, flaky sensors); or planning bring-up and validation of a new board. Scenario-driven part selection, electrical design margins, firmware-for-unattended-devices rules, bench debugging discipline, and a trap catalog.
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# Hardware — parts, circuits, firmware, bring-up, traps
Rule content lives in the five files below; this SKILL.md only routes
(`doctrine/04-maintenance.md` governs edits to this bundle too).
## Route by moment
| You are about to… | Read (in this folder) |
|---|---|
| Pick an MCU, module, sensor, or any component; judge a BOM or parts proposal | `parts.md` |
| Design or review a circuit: power, protection, interfaces, layout concerns | `circuits.md` |
| Write or review embedded firmware (loops, ISRs, watchdogs, OTA, flash) | `firmware.md` |
| Debug a physical board, plan first power-up, or validate before shipping | `bringup.md` |
| Estimate battery life or a power budget ("how long on a 2000mAh cell?") | `circuits.md` §1 + `traps.md` A5 — peak budgeting, measured charge per duty cycle |
| Review a hardware project's health; name why a design or process feels fragile | `traps.md` |
A new design usually runs `parts.md` → `circuits.md` (power tree first) → `firmware.md`,
with `bringup.md` §1 consulted BEFORE layout — bring-up is designed, not improvised.
## Scope and neighbors
Physical-world engineering judgment. Firmware architecture inherits `backend/logic.md`
(this bundle adds the physics); debugging inherits `methods/investigate.md` (this bundle
adds instruments and the four failure domains); whether to delegate → `doctrine`.
## The stance
The physical world is analog, undocumented, and expensive to iterate: **derate, measure,
and design for bring-up** — and treat every datasheet as a contract whose real terms are
in the footnotes (`parts.md` §4). One honest limit governs all debugging here: the model
cannot see the board, so measurements come before theories (`bringup.md` §4).
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Trust
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