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

ModalityStatusDetail
APIyesgraphqldotnet-in-processbearer
coverage: partial · docs
SDKyescsharp
official: yes
MCPunknown
verdict: unknown
Integrationsunknown
CLIunknown
Extensibilityyesdesigner-sdk-extensionsdesigner-scripting
webhooks: unknown
Data access
export: graphql-json · import: graphql-json
RPA / UI automationunknownwindows-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.
Computer useunknown
measured verdicts only — "unknown" means not yet probed by us

Scores

apimcpintegrationsclirpacomputer useoverall
77

Evidence

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modalities.data_access.export[0]declaredsource2026-08-28
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freshness.watch[1].urldeclaredsource2026-08-28
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Last verified 2026-08-28 · volatility high · JSON record