Show HN: Naja-scope – Let AI agents explore SystemVerilog netlists over MCP
Naja-scope is an open-source tool that allows AI agents to explore SystemVerilog netlists over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling programmatic interaction with hardware designs.
Background
- **SystemVerilog**: a language used to design digital chips. A **netlist** is a map of all components and their connections.
- **MCP (Model Context Protocol)**: an open standard by Anthropic that lets AI agents plug into external tools, similar to a universal API for LLMs.
- **naja-scope**: an open-source MCP server that lets AI agents (Claude, etc.) query SystemVerilog netlists — e.g., "what drives this signal?" or "show all loads on this wire."
- **Why it matters**: chip design involves massive, tangled netlists that are slow to explore manually. Giving LLMs structured access to netlists via MCP could speed up hardware debugging, design review, and reverse-engineering — extending AI-assisted workflows beyond software into hardware engineering.