AutoPCB Shell GUI Control

Control the running AutoPCB Shell GUI via its IPC-based CLI. The shell is an egui/WGPU application with a Unix socket server. CLI commands send JSON requests to the running instance and receive responses.

Binary name: autopcb-shell (built from crates/autopcb-shell).

Architecture

Agent (bash) ──CLI──► autopcb-shell cmd/screenshot/open/...
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                    Unix socket IPC
                          │
                    ShellApp (egui) ──► Intent pipeline ──► Command execution