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Design with the agent already on your laptop.

The open-source alternative to Claude Design. Your existing coding agent — Claude · Codex · Cursor · Gemini · OpenCode · Qwen — becomes the design engine, driven by 31 composable skills and 72 brand-grade design systems.

planted: 6 May 2026
by: mMina KovacCreative Director · North Form
reading: 1 min
source: open-design.ai

I.About / Manifesto•Open Design / Volume 01002 / 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.

Studies in form · perception · machine imagination.(Open Design, MMXXVI)

II.Capabilities · Skills · Systems•4 surfaces / 1 loop003 / 008

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 Systemsas Markdown

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

03Adapters

12 AgentAdapters

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

04BYOK

BYOKat every layer

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

VI.Collaborators / Lineage•Standing on shoulders007 / 008

Collaborators · Nº 06

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

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