The OpenROAD MCP server - interactive EDA sessions via Model Context Protocol
Connect Openroad to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. The OpenROAD MCP server - interactive EDA sessions via Model Context Protocol. The openroad mcp server is what makes that connection.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for interacting with OpenROAD and ORFS (OpenROAD Flow Scripts).
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
interactive_openroad — Execute commands in an interactive OpenROAD sessioncreate_interactive_session — Create a new OpenROAD sessionlist_interactive_sessions — List all active sessionsterminate_interactive_session — Terminate a sessioninspect_interactive_session — Get detailed session informationget_session_history — View command historyget_session_metrics — Get performance metricslist_report_images — List ORFS report directory imagesread_report_image — Read a ORFS report imageSetup — The Setup tool exposed by this serverTesting — The Testing tool exposed by this servernpxThe server ships on npm as openroad-mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Plenty of file and storage access servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Openroad's toolset — interactive_openroad, create_interactive_session, list_interactive_sessions and 8 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by luarss; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| interactive_openroad | Execute commands in an interactive OpenROAD session |
| create_interactive_session | Create a new OpenROAD session |
| list_interactive_sessions | List all active sessions |
| terminate_interactive_session | Terminate a session |
| inspect_interactive_session | Get detailed session information |
| get_session_history | View command history |
| get_session_metrics | Get performance metrics |
| list_report_images | List ORFS report directory images |
| read_report_image | Read a ORFS report image |
| Setup | The Setup tool exposed by this server. |
| Testing | The Testing tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"openroad-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "openroad-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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