Can AI agents automate Altium Designer?
Altium · desktop · cadengineering
Altium Designer is automatable today through the Altium 365 Workspace GraphQL API and a licensed in-process Designer SDK. The GraphQL API reads and writes workspace data across design projects, libraries, procurement and BOMs, platform users and lifecycles, comments, and workflows. Requests use a bearer access token created by a workspace admin or exchanged from a refresh token, client ID, and client secret. Regional and workspace endpoints are documented, and a browser GraphQL IDE is available on each workspace. The Designer SDK is a managed .NET API for extensions that add commands and access schematic, PCB, and project data inside a licensed Windows installation. SDK access requires enrolment on Altium Developer Center. Scripting is documented as a first-party automation path, but those pages are mid-migration. The desktop product is validated only on Windows 10 and 11. No first-party MCP, named low-code connector, CLI, or computer-use result was established.
Best path today: api · Overall automatability: 7/10
Modalities
| Modality | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| API | yes | graphqldotnet-in-processbearer coverage: partial · docs |
| SDK | yes | csharp official: yes |
| MCP | unknown | verdict: unknown |
| Integrations | unknown | |
| CLI | unknown | |
| Extensibility | yes | designer-sdk-extensionsdesigner-scripting webhooks: unknown |
| Data access | export: graphql-json · import: graphql-json | |
| RPA / UI automation | unknown | windows-native No repeatable UI probe was run. The Altium 365 GraphQL API and the Altium Designer SDK provide supported programmatic access to workspace and in-process design data without visually driving the Windows UI.
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| Computer use | unknown | measured verdicts only — "unknown" means not yet probed by us |
Scores
| api | mcp | integrations | cli | rpa | computer use | overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | — | — | — | — | — | 7 |
Evidence
| Fact | Tier | Source | Date |
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homepage | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
platforms | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
license | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.api.exists | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.api.kinds[0] | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.api.kinds[1] | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.api.auth[0] | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.api.coverage | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.sdk | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.sdk.languages[0] | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.extensibility.scripting | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.data_access.export[0] | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
modalities.data_access.import[0] | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
verdict.scores.api | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
verdict.scores.api | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
freshness.watch[0].url | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
freshness.watch[1].url | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
freshness.watch[2].url | declared | source | 2026-08-28 |
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Last verified 2026-08-28 · volatility high · JSON record