Hive's hardware design module now imports an Eagle schematic into KiCad without an engineer driving the application, then checks the result connection by connection. On a SparkFun Pro Micro RP2040 design, the importer carried over all 56 parts and matched every source net, the named electrical connection between pins. Seven unnamed Eagle nets received generated KiCad names, and the tool reported those changes instead of hiding them.
KiCad's command-line tool can't import schematics, so Hive runs KiCad's own graphical importer in a private virtual display and sends it the same commands a person would. After KiCad saves the file, Hive compares each Eagle net with the KiCad net as sets of component references and pin numbers. It also extracts the board's embedded footprints into a project library and summarizes the electrical rules check, which finds wiring mistakes such as unconnected pins.
Automating a graphical application this way is brittle because a changed menu or shortcut can stop the run. The connectivity comparison limits the damage: a script failure becomes a failed migration instead of a plausible-looking schematic with the wrong wiring. Teams moving old Eagle projects should try this on one board with known import problems and keep the connection report with the converted design.