KiBot is a program which helps you to generate the fabrication and documentation files for your KiCad projects easily, repeatable, and most of all, scriptably. This means you can use a Makefile to export your KiCad PCBs just as needed, or do it in a CI/CD environment.
For more information consult the documentation (hosted by Read the Docs)
If you are looking for the last features and fixes visit the dev branch
If you want to see an example of what KiBot can generate visit this project
If this is the first time you read about KiBot, and you prefer to be introduced listening to a podcast, you can try the following (english audio, english and spanish subtitles available):
Here is another podcast, more centered on the CI/CD side:
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KiCad automation tool for documents generation
We found that kibot demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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