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Open Design

Local-first desktop app that turns a coding agent into a design engine

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Open Design is an Apache-2.0, local-first Electron desktop app positioned as the open-source alternative to Claude Design. It drives whichever coding CLI you already have — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and 20+ others via BYOK — to produce prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slide decks, images and video, and it exports real files: HTML, PDF, PPTX, MP4. Every output reads from an active DESIGN.md brand contract, and the repo ships 152 named design-system packages (Stripe, Linear, Vercel, Notion, Apple, plus style families like brutalism, neumorphism, editorial) and 114 design templates. It runs as a macOS or Windows desktop build, under Docker, or self-hosted on the web.

Install
brew install --cask open-design # or download the .dmg/.exe from GitHub Releases

For an agent

The reusable asset here is the repo, not the app: `design-systems/` holds 152 named brand and style packages (stripe, linear, vercel, notion, apple, brutalism, neumorphism, editorial) and `design-templates/` holds 114 output scaffolds — clone them and read the DESIGN.md contract even if the user never installs the desktop build. Reach for the app itself when the deliverable is a file a non-developer opens — a PPTX deck, a PDF one-pager, an MP4 — because that export path is the thing raw code generation does not give you. Watch two things: it is a fast-moving 0.x (v0.19.2 as of 2026-08-14) so pin a version, and the 'brand' design systems reproduce trademarked identities, which is fine for internal prototypes and not fine for shipped product.

Why it is here. The largest open-source attempt at agent-driven design, and its 152 design-system packages plus 114 templates are a directly reusable corpus regardless of whether you ever run the app.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License
Apache 2.0
Pricing
Free, Open source, Free but account required
Framework
Next.js, React
Styling
Tailwind CSS, CSS custom properties
Distribution
Desktop application, Direct download / asset pack, GitHub repository, Web app / online tool, CLI installer
Platform
macOS, Windows, Desktop, Web, Linux, Cross-platform
Content type
Code, Images / textures / backgrounds, Video, PDF document, Prose / writing, Design tokens / theme files, Prompts
Agent readiness
Agent skill or rules pack, Readable open source, Structured documentation, CLI installable, Login required
Accessibility
Unknown
Maturity
Actively maintained
Pricing detail
App is free and Apache-2.0. You supply your own model keys (BYOK), so cost is whatever your Claude / OpenAI / other provider charges.
GitHub stars
86,863

Helps you build

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Templates

65 of 114

Notable for

  • 152 named design-system packages
  • 114 design templates from decks to dashboards
  • HTML, PDF, PPTX and MP4 export
  • BYOK across 20+ coding CLIs
  • local-first Electron, Docker and self-host options

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design (README), GitHub contents API for /design-systems (154 entries incl. README.md and _schema) and /design-templates (115 entries incl. AGENTS.md), GitHub releases API (open-design-v0.19.2, 2026-08-14)

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