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🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. 🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSeek Harness / OpenCode & 20+ CLIs via BYOK.

AI summary: An open-source AI platform providing intelligent design agents and image generation models as an alternative to Claude Design.

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TypeScriptApache-2.0Created Apr 28, 2026Last push todayLatest release open-design-v0.24.1+1.1K stars this week+5.3K this month

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What is open-design?
An open-source AI platform providing intelligent design agents and image generation models as an alternative to Claude Design.
What does open-design do?
OpenDesign is a comprehensive, open-source AI platform tailored specifically for design and prototyping workflows. Positioned as an alternative to proprietary solutions like Claude Design, it integrates top-tier large language models alongside advanced image generation models to assist in creative tasks. The system utilizes powerful LLMs like GPT, Claude, and DeepSeek for high-level agent reasoning, while employing specialized models like GPT Image 2.0 and Seedream 5.0 Pro for asset generation. It streamlines the design process by allowing users to rapidly generate prototypes, slide decks, and visual assets through intelligent, conversational interfaces.
Who is open-design for?
OpenDesign is built for UX/UI designers, product managers, and creative technologists who want to accelerate their workflows using AI. It is particularly useful for teams looking for an open-source, flexible alternative to locked-in proprietary design ecosystems.
How do I get started with open-design?
https://open-design.ai/zh/pricing/
How popular is open-design on GitHub?
nexu-io/open-design has 99,418 stars and 11,504 forks on GitHub, and gained 1,092 stars in the last 7 days.
What license does open-design use?
nexu-io/open-design is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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What open-design does

OpenDesign is a comprehensive, open-source AI platform tailored specifically for design and prototyping workflows. Positioned as an alternative to proprietary solutions like Claude Design, it integrates top-tier large language models alongside advanced image generation models to assist in creative tasks. The system utilizes powerful LLMs like GPT, Claude, and DeepSeek for high-level agent reasoning, while employing specialized models like GPT Image 2.0 and Seedream 5.0 Pro for asset generation. It streamlines the design process by allowing users to rapidly generate prototypes, slide decks, and visual assets through intelligent, conversational interfaces.

OpenDesign is built for UX/UI designers, product managers, and creative technologists who want to accelerate their workflows using AI. It is particularly useful for teams looking for an open-source, flexible alternative to locked-in proprietary design ecosystems.

  • Agent reasoning models: Leverages powerful LLMs like GPT, Claude, and DeepSeek to drive autonomous design agents.
  • Image generation suite: Integrates advanced visual models including GPT Image 2.0, Seedream 5.0 Pro, and Nano Banana 2.0.
  • Unified model service: Offers OpenDesign Cloud to access both text and image models under a single account structure.
  • Prototyping assistance: Rapidly generates structural prototypes and presentation decks based on natural language prompts.
  • Open-source alternative: Provides a transparent, accessible alternative to closed ecosystems like Claude Design.

Where teams use it

Rapid UI prototyping

UX designers use the platform's AI agents to quickly generate structural mockups and layouts from high-level descriptions.

Asset generation

Graphic artists utilize the integrated image models to produce custom visuals and placeholder graphics for their projects.

Presentation drafting

Product managers leverage the reasoning models to automatically outline and generate slide decks for stakeholder meetings.

Cost-effective scaling

Design agencies use the unified OpenDesign Cloud service to manage API costs efficiently across multiple AI models.

Getting started: https://open-design.ai/zh/pricing/

README

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OpenDesign: The open-source Claude Design alternative

⚡ OpenDesign Cloud — the official model service. One recharge to use both agent and image models inside OpenDesign: GPT, Claude, and DeepSeek for agents; GPT Image 2.0, Seedream 5.0 Pro, and Nano Banana 2.0 for images.

🚀 DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are now available. Put top-tier intelligence to work across prototypes, decks, design systems, and everyday agent tasks. OpenDesign members can use both models without limits for two weeks, directly inside the app.

🧩 DeepSeek Harness is now supported. Connect DeepSeek's official dsh agent harness to OpenDesign as a native runtime, with structured thinking, tool calls, model discovery, cancellation, and session resume. Generated files stay in the OpenDesign workflow for live preview and delivery.

OpenDesign hero banner — the headline "The open-source Claude Design alternative" over a classical scene of columns and robed figures on a digital-code backdrop, with stat cards for design systems, plugins, coding agents, and media providers

Website · Download · OpenDesign Cloud · Discord · Follow @OpenDesignHQ

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What is OpenDesign

🎨 The open-source Claude Design alternative.  🖥️ Local-first native desktop app for macOS and Windows.  ⚡ Composable skills, brand-grade DESIGN.md design systems, and ready-to-use plugins.  🖼️ Generates web · desktop · mobile prototypes, live dashboards / artifacts, decks, images, video, plus HyperFrames motion graphics. 🔒 Sandboxed iframe preview · HTML / PDF / PPTX / MP4 export.  🤖 Runs on DeepSeek Harness (dsh) · Claude Code · OpenClaw · Codex · Cursor · OpenCode · Qwen · Copilot · Amp · Hermes · Kimi · Antigravity and 26 distinct local CLI executables, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via BYOK.

OpenDesign is what you get when the agent-native loop Anthropic shipped with Claude Design — discover the brief, lock the direction, stream the artifact, critique, deliver — stops being closed and becomes a filesystem of functional skills, rendering design templates, design systems, and plugins that the coding agents already on your laptop can read, write, and remix. Your CLI becomes the design engine, your laptop becomes the studio, and your team's DESIGN.md becomes the brand contract.

It's also the Figma alternative for the agent era — instead of pushing pixels on a canvas, it delivers single-page artifacts in real CSS, real fonts, real components, exported straight to HTML / PDF / PPTX / MP4 — already shaped by your design system, already runnable inside the agent you use every day.


Product tour

A quick look at the core OpenDesign workflow. Start from Home with a brief, explore reusable skills in Plugins, and turn brand references into a Design System. Then enter a project's Studio to create and refine prototypes, decks, mobile apps, images, documents, and HyperFrames in one place.

Core pages

OpenDesign Home page with artifact types, brief composer, model picker, and examples
Home — choose an artifact type, enter a brief, and set the design system, working directory, and model before you start.
OpenDesign Plugins page showing the official skills catalog
Plugins — browse official skills by category, search the catalog, and launch a workflow with Try it.
Shopify design system preview inside OpenDesign Studio
Design System — extract and refine a brand's visual language, preview the result, and create with it in the same workspace.

Studio — many artifact types in one project

Inside a project's Studio, the conversation, generated files, and live preview stay together across six artifact types:

Web prototype preview in OpenDesign Studio
Prototype — generate or reconstruct web experiences, inspect the rendered page, and iterate with the agent in place.
Multi-slide deck preview in OpenDesign Studio
Deck — create multi-slide presentations, review thumbnails and speaker notes, and export when ready.
Mobile app artifact preview in OpenDesign Studio
Mobile app — generate and polish mobile interfaces in a device preview, with the conversation, output files, and next-step actions beside it.
Generated image preview in OpenDesign Studio
Image — generate visual assets from the project conversation, preview the result at full size, then download or open it.
Multi-page document preview in OpenDesign Studio
Document — create polished, multi-page guides and editorial documents, inspect the rendered layout, and export or share when ready.
HyperFrame motion graphic preview in OpenDesign Studio
HyperFrame — build code-driven motion graphics, preview the animation inside Studio, and export the finished video.

Platform Compatibility

OpenDesign connects to mainstream coding agents in two ways: skills, CLI, and MCP for agents that consume OD, plus native runtime adapters for agents that OD launches directly. DeepSeek Harness is a first-class native runtime through the official dsh CLI, with structured streaming, model discovery, cancellation, and session resume.

Coding agent / platform          Status    Quick setup                   
Claude Code ✅ Supported od mcp install claude
Claude Desktop ✅ Supported¹ od mcp install claude-desktop
Codex CLI ✅ Supported od mcp install codex
DeepSeek Reasonix ✅ Supported od mcp install reasonix
DeepSeek Harness ✅ Native runtime od agent setup deepseek-harness
Raven ✅ Supported od mcp install raven
Cursor ✅ Supported od mcp install cursor
VS Code + GitHub Copilot ✅ Supported od mcp install copilot
GitHub Copilot CLI ✅ Supported od mcp install copilot
OpenCode ✅ Supported od mcp install opencode
OpenClaw ✅ Supported od mcp install openclaw
Antigravity ✅ Supported od mcp install antigravity
Cline ✅ Supported od mcp install cline
Trae ✅ Supported od mcp install trae
Kimi CLI ✅ Supported od mcp install kimi
Kiro ✅ Supported od mcp install kiro
Pi Agent ✅ Supported od mcp install pi
Mistral Vibe CLI ✅ Supported od mcp install vibe
Hermes Agent ✅ Supported od mcp install hermes

For DeepSeek Harness, install the official dsh CLI first, then select it in OpenDesign or run od agent setup deepseek-harness to install/repair OD's connection component. For MCP integrations: od mcp install <agent> --print for a dry-run preview · --uninstall to remove · full list with od mcp install --help.

¹ Automatic MCP configuration for Claude Desktop is currently supported on macOS and Windows only.

The 26 coding-agent CLIs OpenDesign supports — DeepSeek Harness · Claude Code · Codex · OpenCode · Hermes · Antigravity · Vela · Grok Build · Kimi · Cursor Agent · Qwen · Qoder · GitHub Copilot · Pi · Kiro · Kilo · Mistral Vibe · DeepSeek · Reasonix · Aider · Amp · CodeBuddy · Mimo · AtomCode · Devin · Trae

No CLI installed? The BYOK proxy at POST /api/proxy/{anthropic,openai,azure,google,ollama,senseaudio}/stream gives you the same loop (no process spawn) — paste baseUrl + apiKey + model, with presets for OpenAI, Atlas Cloud, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Atlas Cloud uses https://api.atlascloud.ai/v1 with your own key and OpenAI-compatible model ids such as qwen/qwen3.5-flash. Per-target SSRF protection blocks internal IPs / link-local / CGNAT at the daemon edge.

Runtime definitions live in apps/daemon/src/runtimes/defs/, with registration and shared stream handling under apps/daemon/src/runtimes/. See docs/agent-adapters.md for the adapter contract.


Demo

Four core product categories, all rendered by a coding agent running on your laptop. Click a thumbnail to see the real example.

1 · Prototypes — web · desktop · mobile

The default output surface. Single-page HTML artifacts that read your DESIGN.md and render in a sandboxed iframe.

Web prototype dating-web
Web prototype — an editorial dashboard with scrollbars, KPIs, and charts. Rendered straight from design-templates/dating-web/.
Gamified app
Mobile app prototype — a three-screen gamified flow with XP ribbons and quest detail. Hand off straight to Cursor / Codex / Claude Code to turn into React/Next/Vue.

2 · Live artifacts & dashboards

Live dashboards, decision rooms, KPI walls — single-page artifacts that pull data through a tweaks panel and stay editable in place.

Live dashboard
Live dashboard — an editable KPI wall whose tweaks panel surfaces the parameters worth nudging. The agent emits a manifest, and the iframe re-renders without a reload.
Decision room
Decision room — a multi-source briefing artifact for product / research / ops meetings.
GitHub dashboard
GitHub-style dashboard — repo metrics presented as a live artifact.
Flow live dashboard
Flow live-dashboard template — a domain-specific KPI template, branded through the active DESIGN.md.

3 · Decks — magazine decks, weekly updates, pitches

Magazine deck (guizang-ppt)
Deck mode (guizang-ppt) — magazine layouts, WebGL hero, P0/P1/P2 checklists. Bundled verbatim from op7418/guizang-ppt-skill with its original license preserved.
Swiss deck
Swiss International-style deck — grid-anchored, monochrome accents. One of 15 deck templates and 36 themes under design-templates/html-ppt-*/.

Every deck exports to HTML (single file, inlined assets), PDF (browser print, deck-aware), PPTX (agent-driven skill), ZIP (archive), or Markdown.

4 · Images — gpt-image-2, ImageRouter, custom API

Illustrated city food map
Illustrated city food map
Hand-drawn editorial travel poster
Cinematic elevator scene
Cinematic elevator scene
Single-frame editorial still
Cyberpunk anime portrait
Cyberpunk portrait
Profile avatar — neon face text
3D stone staircase evolution
3D stone staircase
Hewn-stone infographic
Glamorous portrait
Glamorous portrait
Editorial studio shot

93 ready-to-replicate prompts live in prompt-templates/ — preview thumbnails, full prompt body, target model, aspect ratio, and source attribution. One click drops a brief into the composer.

5 · Video & HyperFrames — agent-native motion graphics

HyperFrames is HeyGen's open-source, agent-native video framework, integrated as a first-class citizen in OpenDesign. The agent writes HTML + CSS + GSAP, and HyperFrames renders it to a deterministic MP4 via headless Chrome + FFmpeg. Pair it with Seedance 2.0 for cinematic t2v / i2v, Veo 3 / Sora 2 / Kling 2 for routed model variants, and Suno v5 / Lyria 2 for the audio layer.

SaaS promo
30s SaaS product promo · 16:9 · UI 3D reveals
TikTok karaoke
TikTok karaoke talking-head · 9:16 · TTS + word-synced captions
Brand sizzle reel
30s brand sizzle reel · 16:9 · audio-reactive kinetic type
Bar chart race
Bar chart race · 16:9 · NYT-style data infographic
Flight map
Flight map · 16:9 · Apple-style route reveal
Logo outro
4s cinematic logo outro · 16:9 · piece-by-piece assembly + bloom
Money counter
$0 → $10K money counter · 9:16 · Apple-style hype
Website to video
Website-to-video · 16:9 · captures the site at 3 viewports

11 HyperFrames templates + 39 Seedance prompts ship with the repo. Catalog thumbnails © HeyGen; the framework is Apache-2.0. The OD-specific render workflow (composition cache, sandbox-exec workaround, MP4-as-chip) is detailed in design-templates/hyperframes/.


Why OpenDesign

In April 2026, Anthropic released Claude Design — the first time an LLM stopped writing prose and started delivering design artifacts directly. It went viral. But it stayed closed-source, paid-only, cloud-only, locked to Anthropic's model, Anthropic's skills, Anthropic's surface. No checkout, no self-host, no Vercel deploy, no swap-in-your-own-agent.

OpenDesign (OD) is the open-source alternative. Same loop, same artifact-first mental model, none of the lock-in:

  • 🤖 Agent-native, model-agnostic. We don't ship an agent. The claude / codex / cursor-agent / copilot / hermes / kimi already on your PATH are the design engine. Swap with one click.
  • 🧠 Brand-grade by default. Every render reads the active package's DESIGN.md as the core brand contract. 151 design-system packages ship with the repo; legacy packages may be DESIGN.md-only, while newer packages can add manifest.json, tokens.css, components, assets, and provenance. Drop a folder in, the picker finds it.
  • 🖥️ Local-first, BYOK at every layer. Native desktop apps for macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows (x64). Linux desktop users can currently run OpenDesign from source; the latest official release does not include a prebuilt Linux artifact. Product analytics and session replay are consent-gated; scrubbed safety and reliability telemetry is always on. Before describing daemon data paths, contributors and operators MUST read AGENTS.md → Daemon data directory contract. This README MUST NOT restate it.
  • 🌍 Composable on four planes. Plugins carry runnable workflows · functional skills carry agent behavior · design templates carry rendering blueprints · design systems carry the brand. All four use portable, versionable directories that anyone can author and publish.
  • 🔁 Refresh an existing codebase. Hand a git repo + DESIGN.md to the agent and it refactors your real components to the brand spec. Dedicated plugins migrate Figma / Pencil workflows into React / Next.js / Vue code.
  • 🔒 Privacy by conviction. Everything runs where your data lives — your laptop, your team's server, your Vercel project. When the network is needed, the BYOK proxy is SSRF-guarded.

Comparison

Claude Design Figma Lovable / v0 / Bolt OpenDesign
Open source ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ Apache-2.0
Self-host / desktop ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ macOS + Windows + Docker + Vercel web
Agent-native (runs in your CLI) Anthropic only ❌ Cloud agent only ✅ 25 CLIs + BYOK
Brand-grade DESIGN.md Proprietary Theme JSON Limited tokens ✅ 151 systems shipped
Skills / plugins / templates Closed Plugin store Closed ✅ 100+ functional skills · rendering templates · 277 plugins
HyperFrames (HTML→MP4) ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ First-class
Refresh an existing repo to brand ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ via agent + DESIGN.md
Minimum billing Pro / Max / Team Pro / Org Pro / Team BYOK · any compatible endpoint

Quick start

🖥️ Download the desktop app (recommended — zero config)

The fastest way to use OpenDesign. No Node, no pnpm, no clone.

After install: the app auto-detects every coding-agent CLI on your PATH, loads 100+ functional skills, the separate rendering-template catalog, and 151 design systems, and lets you type a brief in the entry view.

🤖 Install into your coding agent (no UI)

You can use OpenDesign without ever opening the GUI — call it as a skill, plugin, or MCP server inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, OpenClaw, Antigravity, Hermes, Kimi, and more.

If you installed the macOS desktop app via the DMG or Homebrew cask, your shell may still resolve od to Apple's built-in /usr/bin/od octal-dump utility. In that case, open Settings → MCP server in the desktop app and copy the client-specific snippet; it uses absolute paths and does not rely on the bare od command.

# One-line install into the agent you're using:
od mcp install <agent>
# <agent> = claude | codex | reasonix | raven | cursor | copilot | openclaw
#         | antigravity | pi | vibe | hermes | cline | kimi | kiro
#         | trae | opencode

# Hosted equivalent for curl-based setup:
curl -fsSL https://open-design.ai/install.sh | sh -s <agent>

install.sh is a thin shell wrapper around od mcp install; it exists so the hosted URL returns shell instead of the landing-page HTML fallback and fails fast if your shell resolves a non-Open-Design od binary.

macOS / WSL2 users: /usr/bin/od is a system octal-dump command and can shadow OpenDesign's od command. Desktop-app users should prefer the Settings → MCP server snippet; WSL2 users should follow the WSL2 setup guide first.

Then, inside the agent:

> Use open-design to generate a landing page with the Linear design system

In a filesystem-backed local CLI run, the agent composes the selected functional skill or design template with your DESIGN.md, writes the canonical project files, and OpenDesign previews those files. A BYOK/plain-API run without filesystem tools instead returns one complete <artifact> block.

🐳 Run with Docker

git clone https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git
cd open-design/deploy
cp .env.example .env
echo "OD_API_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -hex 32)" >> .env
docker compose up -d
# open http://127.0.0.1:7456

If the browser asks for credentials, use open-design as the username and the OD_API_TOKEN value from deploy/.env as the password. This keeps Docker bridge traffic authenticated without requiring host networking. API clients can keep using Authorization: Bearer <OD_API_TOKEN>.

🚀 Deploy on Sealos

Deploy on Sealos

The Sealos App Store template runs the published OpenDesign Docker image with persistent workspace storage and Basic Auth on the public proxy. For custom public or shared Docker deployments, follow the reverse-proxy and OPEN_DESIGN_ALLOWED_ORIGINS guidance in deploy/README.md.

🧑‍💻 Run from source

git clone https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git
cd open-design
corepack enable && pnpm install
pnpm tools-dev run web

Open the URL printed by tools-dev; development ports are allocated dynamically unless you pass explicit port flags.

Node ~24, pnpm 10.33.x. WSL2 users, see docs/wsl-setup.md; native Windows users, see docs/windows-troubleshooting.md. Full quickstart, env vars, and packaged build flow → QUICKSTART.md.

A full workflow — from brief to artifact

brief → plugin → direction → design system → artifact → handoff → memory

  1. A PM submits a brief. The plugin picker offers landing page · pitch deck · dashboard · social post · PM spec · OKR scorecard…
  2. A designer (or the agent) locks the direction. No brand? Pick from 5 curated directions. Have a brand? Drop a screenshot / URL → the agent connects GitHub, imports Figma, and codifies a reusable DESIGN.md.
  3. The agent creates the first deliverable. Plugin + functional skill or design template + DESIGN.md are bound. Filesystem-backed CLI runs write canonical project files and the preview follows them; BYOK/plain-API runs without file tools return one complete <artifact> block.
  4. Hand off to engineering. The artifact is real HTML/CSS — drop it into Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code to keep building as code. Or export PPTX / PDF / MP4 straight to marketing.
  5. OpenDesign gets smarter as you use it. Your screenshots, fonts, palettes, and confirmed artifacts accumulate as defaults for the next session. Less rework, less drift.

Use OpenDesign from your coding agent

OpenDesign ships a stdio MCP server and per-agent install scripts. Any MCP-compatible agent in another repo can read files from your local OpenDesign projects directly — tokens CSS, JSX components, entry HTML — as a structured API queryable by name. The agent always sees the live file, not a stale export.

# One-line install (16+ CLIs supported):
od mcp install <agent>

# Then the agent can:
od project list --json
od files list <project-id> --json
od files read <project-id> <relative-path>
od plugin list --json
od skills list --json

Why MCP? Exporting and re-attaching a zip every iteration breaks flow. MCP exposes the design source directly — the agent always sees the live file.

For an agent starting from scratch, the installer places ~/.config/<agent>/open-design.json (or the platform equivalent) plus a copy-paste MCP snippet. Cursor gets a one-click deeplink; Claude Code gets a claude mcp add-json one-liner; every other agent gets JSON in the schema its config expects. On macOS desktop installs, prefer that Settings snippet over typing bare od mcp install <agent> in Terminal, because /usr/bin/od may win on PATH. Full per-agent flow → Settings → MCP server in the desktop app, or docs/agent-adapters.md.

Security model. Read-only by default, the daemon binds to 127.0.0.1, and SSRF is blocked at the proxy edge. LAN exposure requires an explicit OD_BIND_HOST plus OD_ALLOWED_ORIGINS. Connector credentials and live-artifact preview routes stay loopback-only regardless.

Internally-hosted model endpoints. To prevent SSRF, the daemon blocks provider base URLs that resolve to private/internal address ranges (RFC1918, link-local, CGNAT, and cloud-metadata IPs) by default, surfacing Internal IPs blocked. If you run an internally-hosted gateway (e.g. LiteLLM or Ollama on a VPN-only 10.x/192.168.x address), opt that host out with OD_ALLOWED_INTERNAL_HOSTS=<host1>,<host2>,... — a comma- or whitespace-separated list of bare hostnames or IPs (10.0.0.5, litellm.internal.corp; a host:port or full URL is accepted and reduced to its hostname; IPv6 must be bracketed, e.g. [fd00::1]). The allowlist is strict opt-in (empty by default), exact-host (no subdomain/substring matching), and applies only to provider endpoints you configure (connection test, model discovery, BYOK chat). It deliberately does not relax the guard on download URLs returned inside upstream responses, which stay blocked. A malformed entry — or CIDR notation, which is not supported — is dropped with a warning rather than silently trusted, so a typo never quietly widens (or fails to widen) the guard. Allowlisting a hostname trusts whatever it resolves to (like OD_ALLOWED_ORIGINS); allowlist the resolved IP instead if you want the DNS-resolved address re-checked.


Skills and design templates

100+ functional skills ship in skills/. Each follows the Agent Skills SKILL.md convention and supplies reusable agent behavior, references, or utilities. Renderable starters live separately in design-templates/; they may also use SKILL.md, but they populate the design-template catalog rather than the functional-skill registry.

Two modes anchor the design-template catalog: prototype (web/mobile/desktop single-page artifacts) and deck (horizontal-swipe presentations). Other templates cover image, video, audio, and utility surfaces. The scenario field groups templates by audience: design · marketing · operation · engineering · product · finance · hr · sale · personal.

Design template Mode Scenario What it produces
web-prototype prototype design Default landing page / hero
saas-landing prototype marketing Hero / features / pricing / CTA
dashboard prototype operation Admin / analytics (with sidebar)
mobile-app prototype design iPhone 15 Pro / Pixel framed app
mobile-onboarding prototype design Splash · value-prop · sign-in flow
social-carousel prototype marketing 3-card 1080×1080 carousel
email-marketing prototype marketing Table-fallback-safe brand email
magazine-poster prototype marketing Single-page magazine layout
motion-frames prototype marketing Looping CSS motion hero
sprite-animation prototype marketing 8-bit pixel animated explainer
pm-spec prototype product PM spec doc (with TOC + decision log)
team-okrs prototype product OKR scorecard
eng-runbook prototype engineering Incident runbook
finance-report prototype finance Exec finance summary
hr-onboarding prototype hr Role onboarding plan
guizang-ppt deck marketing Magazine-style web PPT (deck default)
html-ppt-* deck marketing 15 deck templates × 36 themes (master template in design-templates/html-ppt/)
hyperframes video marketing HTML → MP4 motion graphics (HeyGen OSS framework)
critique utility design Five-dimensional self-critique scoresheet
tweaks utility design AI-emitted tweaks-panel manifest

Full protocol and directory split → docs/skills-protocol.md. Registry endpoints: GET /api/skills for functional skills and GET /api/design-templates for rendering templates.


Design Systems

151 brand-grade design-system packages centered on DESIGN.md ship with the repo. Legacy packages may contain only that Markdown contract; newer packages can also carry manifest.json, compiled tokens.css, component fixtures, assets, and provenance evidence. The catalog mixes upstream-derived systems with project-owned additions; design-systems/README.md records the package shape and provenance. Switch a system → the next render uses the new tokens.

Full catalog (click to expand)

AI & LLM — claude · cohere · mistral-ai · minimax · together-ai · replicate · runwayml · elevenlabs · ollama · x-ai

Developer Tools — cursor · vercel · linear-app · framer · expo · clickhouse · mongodb · supabase · hashicorp · posthog · sentry · warp · webflow · sanity · mintlify · lovable · composio · opencode-ai · voltagent

Productivity — notion · figma · miro · airtable · superhuman · intercom · zapier · cal · clay · raycast

Fintech — stripe · coinbase · binance · kraken · mastercard · revolut · wise

E-commerce — shopify · airbnb · uber · nike · starbucks · pinterest

Media — spotify · playstation · wired · theverge · meta

Automotive — tesla · bmw · ferrari · lamborghini · bugatti · renault

Other — apple · ibm · nvidia · vodafone · resend · spacex

Starters — default (Neutral Modern) · warm-editorial

Re-import the library via scripts/sync-design-systems.ts. Add your own brand → drop a DESIGN.md into design-systems/<brand>/. Full guide → design-systems/README.md.


Plugins

277 official plugins plus 183 remixable reference examples live in plugins/_official/. Each entry is a portable plugin directory anchored by open-design.json plus the payload required by its type: for example SKILL.md for agent workflows, template.json for media templates, or DESIGN.md for design-system entries. Jump straight to a category:

Category Count Contents
scenarios/ 13 Complete design scenarios — od-default, od-design-refine, od-figma-migration, od-code-migration, od-react-export, od-nextjs-export, od-vue-export, od-media-generation, od-new-generation, od-tune-collab, od-plugin-authoring, od-share-to-community, od-web-effect-extractor
image-templates/ 45 One-shot image prompts — editorial, cinematic, product, portrait
video-templates/ 63 HyperFrames / Seedance / Veo motion templates
design-systems/ 143 Brand DESIGN.md wrapped as plugins
atoms/ 13 Reusable UI fragments (buttons, heroes, KPI cards)
examples/ 183 Remixable reference outputs

Also plugins/community/ for community plugins and plugins/registry/ for the publishing flow.

What plugins can do

  • 🤖 Run in any coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, OpenClaw, Antigravity, Hermes, Kimi… through the same skill protocol the agent already knows.
  • 🔁 Migrate Figma / Pencil workflows → React, Next.js, or Vue source. See od-figma-migration.
  • 🛠️ Refresh an existing codebase to a brand spec — point a plugin at a git repo + DESIGN.md, get a PR. See od-code-migration.
  • 💾 Persist custom workflows — your team's reusable templates sit next to the shipped ones.

Using plugins

Plugins are at full parity across the web UI and the od CLI — same /api/plugins endpoints, pick whichever fits.

In the desktop / web app: open the Plugin page to browse the marketplace and click Install; inside a project's Studio, plugins appear as composer chips you click to apply (with the inputs they declare).

On the command line (runs without a UI — this is the path external agents use):

od plugin list                       # list installed plugins (--task-kind / --mode / --tag filters)
od plugin search "landing page"      # search by keyword
od plugin info od-default            # inspect a plugin's metadata, inputs, capabilities
od plugin install od-figma-migration # install from a registry; also accepts ./local-folder or an https://… link
od plugin apply od-default --input brief="a one-page pitch for our seed round"
od plugin upgrade od-default         # upgrade
od plugin uninstall od-default       # uninstall

Every command supports --json, so you can pipe it through jq / xargs into automation.

Building a plugin

An OpenDesign plugin requires open-design.json plus the payload required by its type. A workflow skill or scenario also includes SKILL.md; manifest-only template and design-system entries use their own payloads instead:

my-plugin/
├── open-design.json    ← required: marketplace metadata + inputs + pipeline + capabilities
├── SKILL.md            ← required for agent-skill/scenario entries; omitted for other plugin types
├── README.md           ← optional: usage, install, registry links
├── preview/            ← optional: index.html / poster.png (strongly recommended for visual plugins)
└── examples/           ← optional: concrete use cases

Core open-design.json fields: specVersion (currently 1.0.0), name (stable ID), version (semver), optional compat.agentSkills[].path (points at ./SKILL.md when the entry exposes an Agent Skill), od.kind (skill / scenario / atom / bundle), od.taskKind (new-generation / figma-migration / code-migration / tune-collab), od.mode (the output surface, e.g. prototype / deck / live-artifact / image / video / hyperframes / audio / design-system / scenario), od.capabilities[] (declare the minimum — a restricted install grants only prompt:inject by default), od.inputs[] (apply-time parameters).

Scaffold + validate locally:

od plugin scaffold --id my-plugin --title "My Plugin"   # generate the skeleton
od plugin validate ./my-plugin                          # check manifest / file layout
pnpm guard && pnpm --filter @open-design/plugin-runtime typecheck

Full field set and runtime contract → plugins/spec/SPEC.md; developing a plugin with a coding agent → plugins/spec/AGENT-DEVELOPMENT.md; copy-paste minimal templates → plugins/spec/examples/.

Contributing a plugin

  1. Drop the plugin folder into plugins/community/ (third-party plugins), or — to ship it bundled with OpenDesign — into the matching tier of plugins/_official/.
  2. Pass validation: od plugin validate, pnpm guard, pnpm --filter @open-design/plugin-runtime typecheck.
  3. Fill the PR using the template in plugins/spec/CONTRIBUTING.md (ID, version, lane, mode, capabilities, trigger examples; attach a screenshot / preview for visual plugins).
  4. To publish to an external registry (skills.sh / ClawHub / standalone GitHub) → plugins/spec/PUBLISHING-REGISTRIES.md.

Plugin registry endpoint: GET /api/plugins. Directory overview → plugins/README.md (简体中文).


Architecture

┌────────────────── browser (Next.js 16) / Electron shell ──────────────┐
│  chat · file workspace · iframe preview · settings · import · MCP     │
└──────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────┘
               │ /api/*                              │
               ▼                                     ▼
   ┌─────────────────────────────────┐   /api/proxy/{provider}/stream (SSE)
   │  local daemon (Express+SQLite)  │   ─→ any OpenAI-compatible BYOK,
   │                                  │       SSRF-guarded at the edge
   │  /api/skills    /api/design-templates    /api/plugins    │
   │  /api/design-systems            │
   │  /api/chat (SSE)   /api/proxy/* │
   │  /api/projects/:id/files/...    │
   │  /api/artifacts/{save,lint}     │
   │  /api/import/claude-design      │
   │  MCP stdio server                │
   └─────────┬───────────────────────┘
             │ spawn(cli, [...], { cwd: managed project cwd })
             ▼
   ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │  Local runtime definitions come from runtimes/registry.ts;                 │
   │  the base registry has 27 definitions (including byok-opencode),           │
   │  backed by 26 distinct local CLI executables because byok-opencode shares │
   │  the OpenCode executable. See docs/agent-adapters.md.                     │
   │  composes a functional skill or design template + DESIGN.md; writes files │
   └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Layer Stack
Frontend Next.js 16 App Router + React 18 + TypeScript
Daemon Node 24 · Express · SSE streaming · better-sqlite3
Storage Before changing or documenting daemon storage paths, you MUST read AGENTS.md → Daemon data directory contract. This README MUST NOT restate it.
Preview Filesystem runs render canonical project files; BYOK/plain-API runs parse one complete <artifact> block into a sandboxed srcdoc iframe
Export HTML (inlined) · PDF (browser print) · PPTX (agent-driven) · ZIP · Markdown · MP4 (HyperFrames)
Desktop Electron shell + sandboxed renderer + sidecar IPC (STATUS · EVAL · SCREENSHOT · CONSOLE · CLICK · SHUTDOWN)
Lifecycle One entry point: pnpm tools-dev (start / stop / run / status / logs / inspect / check)

Full architecture → docs/architecture.md. Skill protocol → docs/skills-protocol.md. Agent adapter contract → docs/agent-adapters.md.


Roadmap

  • Daemon + 27 runtime definitions across 26 distinct coding-agent CLI executables + skill/design-template registries + design-system catalog
  • Web app + chat + question form + 5-direction picker + todo progress + sandboxed preview
  • 100+ functional skills · separate rendering-template catalog · 151 design-system packages · 5 visual directions · 5 device frames
  • SQLite-backed projects · conversations · messages · tabs · templates
  • Multi-provider BYOK proxy (/api/proxy/{anthropic,openai,azure,google,ollama,senseaudio}/stream) with OpenAI-compatible presets including Atlas Cloud + SSRF guard
  • Claude Design ZIP import (/api/import/claude-design)
  • Sidecar protocol + Electron desktop + IPC automation
  • Artifact lint API + 5-dim self-critique pre-emit gate
  • 0.8.0 — plugin marketplace infrastructure (261 official plugins, manifest spec, per-agent install scripts)
  • 0.9.0 — OpenDesign Cloud (official model service built into the app: zero config, one-click sign-in)
  • 0.10.0 — the all-in-one design workspace: the whole craft loop in one window (references → material → interactive editing → motion → handoff)
  • 0.11.0 — The Bazaar: built in the open — a community marketplace of plugins and design systems anyone can pick from and contribute to
  • 0.12.0 — Brand-backed Design System: turn the brand you already own into a reusable, portable DESIGN.md system
  • 0.13.0 — Stay in Flow: native session resume, faster model picking, and export straight to screenshot-backed PPTX / PDF
  • Published desktop releases — macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) + Windows (x64)
  • Published Linux desktop release (optional lane) — tracked in #4368
  • Comment-mode surgical edits — partially shipped; reliable targeted patching in progress
  • AI-emitted tweaks panel UX — not yet implemented
  • npx od init to scaffold a project with DESIGN.md
  • Plugin SDK + od plugin {add,list,remove,test,publish} CLI
  • Figma / Pencil → React / Next / Vue migration plugins (alpha)
  • Refresh-existing-codebase plugin (point at a git repo + DESIGN.md)

Phased delivery → docs/roadmap.md.


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+4.8M lines added, -1.3M removed over the last year.

Commits per week

last 52 weeks
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3.6K commits in the last 52 weeks.

When work happens

weekday and hour
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Commit volume by weekday and hour (UTC). Larger dots mean more commits.
DateListRankStars gained
Jul 17, 2026daily#23+4
Jul 15, 2026daily#20+5
Jun 24, 2026daily#24+14
Jun 19, 2026daily#20+12
Jun 18, 2026daily#13+18
Jun 16, 2026daily#23+14
Jun 15, 2026daily#17+21
Jun 9, 2026daily#21+19
Jun 8, 2026daily#18+32
Jun 6, 2026daily#25+48
Jun 4, 2026daily#22+19
Jun 2, 2026daily#20+26
May 29, 2026daily#21+37
May 28, 2026daily#11+68
May 27, 2026daily#20+43
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