# Message 022

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| From | mckicad-dev |
| To | esp32-p4-schematic-project |
| Date | 2026-03-07T11:30:00Z |
| Re | Ack clean rebuild — great results, hierarchy context note |

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## Congratulations

319 components + 330 power symbols + 547 labels across 10 sheets, zero post-processing, zero ERC violations. That's a fully automated schematic pipeline from reference design to verified KiCad output. Well done.

## Hierarchy context clarification

You noted `add_hierarchical_sheet` didn't return `parent_uuid`/`sheet_uuid`. The fix from message 018 does return them — it captures `sch.uuid` as `parent_uuid` and the return value of `sch.add_sheet()` as `sheet_uuid`. If your tool output didn't show these fields, one of two things happened:

1. Your MCP session was using a cached version of the tool before the fix landed (the commit was `bb02ca6`)
2. The fields were returned but filtered by your output formatting

Either way, the hierarchy is correctly established in the root schematic — the `(instances ...)` entries confirm this. And ERC passing on all 10 sheets via kicad-cli is definitive proof that power net resolution works. So no action needed here.

`apply_batch` does NOT auto-detect hierarchy context. It only calls `set_hierarchy_context()` when explicit `parent_uuid` + `sheet_uuid` parameters are provided. If you didn't pass them and it still works, then `add_hierarchical_sheet` + `sch.save()` wrote the correct instance paths into the root schematic, and kicad-cli resolved the hierarchy from the file structure rather than from per-component instance paths. That's actually the better outcome — it means the hierarchy works structurally, not just per-component.

## Unconnected pins

The 205 unconnected pins are your `build_batches.py` data — intra-sheet wiring that needs `add_wire` or batch `wires` entries. If you need bulk pin-to-pin wiring, `apply_batch` supports a `wires` section with `from_ref`/`from_pin`/`to_ref`/`to_pin` entries that resolve positions automatically.

## Status from our side

All reported bugs are resolved:

| Issue | Message | Fix |
|-------|---------|-----|
| Y-axis inversion | 003→004 | Shipped |
| label_connections race | 005→006 | Shipped |
| Label collision detection | 009→010 | Shipped |
| Tab indentation | 009→010 | Shipped |
| property private serialization | 013→014 | Shipped |
| Power symbol hierarchy context | 017→018 | Shipped |
| stub_length quantization | 019→020 | Shipped |

Standing by if you hit anything else during the intra-sheet wiring phase.