Open Design — Vol. 01 · Issue Nº 26 · Apache-2.0
Skills · Systems · Agents · BYOK · Local-first
OD / 2026 · Vol. 01 / Issue Nº 26 Filed under Design · Intelligence Apache-2.0 · Made on Earth Live · v0.3.0 EN · DE · 中文 · 日本語
I. Hero / Cover Plate • Open Design / Volume 01 001 / 008
Open-source design studio · Nº 01

# Designing intelligence with skills, taste, and code.

The open-source alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Design. 12 coding agents — Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and friends — drive 31 composable skills and 72 brand-grade design systems. Generate web pages, slide decks, mobile prototypes, images, even short videos — all running on your own laptop.

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31 skillsshippable
72 systemsportable
12 CLIsBYO agent
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FIG. 01 / OD-26 Plate Nº 08 SHA · a1b2c3d Composed in Open Design
01Detect 02Discover 03Direct 04Deliver
From the field Open · 23 cities · 6 contributors
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II. About / Manifesto • Open Design / Volume 01 002 / 008
About the studio · Nº 02

## We treat your agent as a creative collaborator, not a black box.

The strongest coding agents already live on your laptop. We don't ship one — we wire them into a skill-driven design workflow that runs locally with `pnpm tools-dev`, deploys the web layer to Vercel, and stays BYOK at every layer.

Read our approach
From model behavior
to visual taste, we
prototype the full
stack of creative
systems.
Studies in form · perception · machine imagination. (Open Design, MMXXVI)
III. Capabilities · Skills · Systems • 4 surfaces / 1 loop 003 / 008
OPEN DESIGN · CAPABILITIES MATRIX · OD/26
Capabilities · Nº 03

## Skills, systems, and surfaces for creative intelligence.

We blend human taste with whichever agent you already trust to ship interfaces, decks, and editorial pages that feel intentional, expressive, and alive.

01Skills

### Skills,
not plugins

31 file-based `SKILL.md` bundles. Drop a folder in, restart the daemon, it appears.

02Systems

### Design Systems
as Markdown

72 portable `DESIGN.md` systems — Linear, Vercel, Stripe, Apple, Cursor, Figma…

03Adapters

### 12 Agent
Adapters

Claude · Codex · Gemini · Cursor · Copilot · OpenCode · Devin · Hermes · Pi · Kimi · Kiro · Qwen — auto-detected on $PATH.

04BYOK

### BYOK
at every layer

OpenAI-compatible proxy. DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, your self-hosted vLLM — paste a baseUrl + key, ship.

IV. Labs / Skills Catalog • 05 of 31 ongoing 004 / 008
Labs · Nº 04

## A living archive of experiments in skills, decks, and machine-made form.

05
Ongoing experiments documenting ideas in flux
building intelligence
through making
Deck
Nº 012026

#### Magazine Decks

Editorial-grade slide decks with `guizang-ppt`. Magazine layout, WebGL hero.

Media
Nº 022026

#### Synthetic Matter

Gpt-image-2 + Seedance + HyperFrames. Image, video, audio — same chat surface as code.

Loop
Nº 032026

#### Prompt Choreography

The interactive question form pops before a single pixel is improvised. 30s of radios beats 30min of redirects.

Critique
Nº 042026

#### Visual Reasoning

5-dim self-critique gates every artifact: philosophy · hierarchy · execution · specificity · restraint.

Runtime
Nº 052026

#### Soft Systems

Sandboxed iframe preview. Streaming todos. Real-cwd filesystem. Adaptive loops between human and machine.

05 / 31 SKILLS · VIEW FULL LIBRARY →
V. Method / Loop • 04 stages, iterative 005 / 008
Method · Nº 05

## From signals to systems.

+

Every stage is iterative, visual, and research-driven — composable files, not opaque prompts.

01

#### Detect →

The daemon scans your $PATH for 12 coding agents and auto-loads 31 skills + 72 systems on boot.

02

#### Discover →

Turn 1 is a question form — surface, audience, tone, scale, brand context. Locked in 30 seconds.

03

#### Direct →

Pick one of 5 deterministic visual directions. Palette in OKLch, font stack, layout posture cues.

04

#### Deliver

The agent writes to disk, you preview in a sandboxed iframe, export HTML / PDF / PPTX / ZIP / Markdown.

Skills inform everything. Files make it real.
github.com/nexu-io/open-design · Apache-2.0
VI. Selected Work · 2026 Catalog • Edited by Open Design 006 / 008
Selected work

## Skills that turn briefs into memorable shippable artifacts.

View all 31 skills
Featured skill 01 / 31

### guizang-ppt

Magazine-style web PPT for product launches and pitch decks. Bundled verbatim, original LICENSE preserved.

2026 · DECK DEFAULT
Companion system 04 / 72

### kami

An editorial paper system. Warm parchment canvas, ink-blue accent, serif-led hierarchy — multilingual by design (EN · zh-CN · ja).

2026 · PAPER SYSTEM
VII. Collaborators / Lineage • Standing on shoulders 007 / 008
Collaborators · Nº 06

## “Open Design helped us turn vague AI ideas into a visual system that felt sharp, believable, and genuinely new.”

m

Mina Kovac
Creative Director · North Form

Standing on the shoulders of teams shipping open-source design culture.

huashu-design Philosophy
guizang-ppt Decks
multica-ai Daemon
open-codesign UX
Devin CLI Terminal
hyperframes Frames
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VIII. Contact / Conversation • Three commands to ship 008 / 008
Start a conversation · Nº 07

## Let's build something open and visually unforgettable.

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

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OPEN DESIGN · FIN.