Local-first, Apache-2.0 alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Design that routes 11 coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc.) through 31 skills and 72 brand-grade design systems to generate sandboxed HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 artifacts.
Key Takeaways
No bundled model: Open Design detects whichever CLI agents are on your PATH and delegates all generation to them, with an OpenAI-compatible BYOK proxy as fallback.
31 skills cover prototype and deck modes across web, mobile, dashboard, social, and editorial surfaces; each skill is a folder with SKILL.md frontmatter the daemon parses directly.
72 design systems include hand-authored starters plus systems extracted from Linear, Stripe, Vercel, Notion, Anthropic, Apple, and others; 57 additional design skills sourced from awesome-design-skills.
Media pipeline adds gpt-image-2 for images, Seedance 2.0 for text-to-video, and HyperFrames for HTML-to-MP4 motion graphics alongside the standard design loop.
Imports Claude Design export ZIPs via POST /api/import/claude-design, parses them into real on-disk projects so agents can continue editing where Anthropic’s tool left off.
