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Open-source design studio · Nº 01

Designing intelligence on warm paper.

The open-source studio for editorial documents and slide decks — typeset by your own coding agent.

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Why design needs another tool.

Because the strongest agents already live on your laptop — and they deserve a real workflow, not a chat window.

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01.1

What it is.

A local-first design studio for the agent you already trust.

Open Design is the open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. It runs on your laptop. Your agent reads a folder of SKILL.md files and a folder of DESIGN.md systems, then produces real files — landing pages, decks, white papers, dashboards.

  • Files, not opaque prompts — every skill is a folder of Markdown.
  • Deterministic visual directions, not random generation.
  • Sandboxed iframe preview, real cwd, exportable artifacts.
Apache-2.0 Local-first BYOK
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01.2

How it feels.

Editorial discipline, not chat-window improvisation.

A new project starts with a 30-second question form: brand, audience, scale, language. The agent picks one of five visual directions, locks the type stack, and writes the artifact to disk. You can read every file it touched.

Every iteration is reviewed in a sandboxed iframe with comment-mode anchors on every editable element. Re-runs are deterministic — same brief, same output.

  • Brief → 30s question form locks brand + audience + scale.
  • Direction → 5 visual directions in OKLch + locked type stack.
  • Artifact → real file on disk, sandboxed preview, comment anchors.
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01.3

By the numbers.

31
Skills
file-based, shippable today, drop-in compatible.
72
Design systems
portable DESIGN.md tokens — Linear, Vercel, Stripe, kami…
12
Agent CLIs
auto-detected on your $PATH; switch backends instantly.
3
Commands
from git clone to first artifact, locally.

Open Design v0.2.0 · Apache-2.0 · MMXXVI · figures as of Issue Nº 26.

Berlin · MMXXVI 05 / 09
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What ships next.

Q2 2026 — packaging, multi-tenant tokens, daemon hardening. The roadmap is public.

Berlin · MMXXVI 06 / 09
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Open Design helped us turn vague AI ideas into a visual system that felt sharp, believable, and genuinely new — without ever opening a chat window.
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Mina Kovac Creative Director · North Form, Berlin

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Start a conversation · Nº 03

Let's build something open and visually unforgettable.

Star the repo on GitHub, drop into the issues, or run pnpm tools-dev tonight. Three commands and the loop is yours.

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