diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ab3767b7..dafa3407 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -41,3 +41,6 @@
 [submodule ".vim/bundle/splice"]
 	path = .vim/bundle/splice
 	url = https://github.com/sjl/splice.vim.git
+[submodule ".kicad"]
+	path = .kicad
+	url = git@github.com:KiCad/kicad-library.git
diff --git a/.kicad b/.kicad
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..81f5d8ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.kicad
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 81f5d8cecda3ea660e6a4df98a46ed45b633cf99