The design engine now lives on your laptop.
Open Design turns the coding agent already on your PATH into a brand-grade studio — prototypes, decks, live artifacts and motion, all shaped by a DESIGN.md brand contract. No cloud round-trip. No lock-in.
One install. The tools you already run become the design engine.
The daemon scans your PATH for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and 17 more — then exposes your projects to them over MCP. The agent always sees the live file, never a stale export.
open-design:
Scope: User config (available in all your projects)
Status: ✓ Connected
Type: stdio
Tools: list_projects · get_artifact · get_file · search_files · create_artifact
$ "use open-design to build a pricing page with the linear-app system"
→ streaming <artifact> · sandboxed preview · export HTML / PDF / PPTX / MP4
The same design system streams out every artifact type.
Prototype
Single-page web · desktop · mobile artifacts that read your DESIGN.md and render in a sandboxed iframe.
HTML · downloadable sourceLive artifact
Editable KPI walls and decision rooms with a tweaks panel — re-render in place, no reload.
manifest-drivenDeck
Magazine and Swiss-grid presentations you page through by keyboard and export to PPTX / PDF.
15 templates · 36 themesImage
Brand-grade visual assets at high resolution from 93 ready-to-replicate prompt templates.
gpt-image-2 · BYOKHyperFrame
Agent-written HTML + GSAP rendered to a deterministic MP4 — headless Chrome + FFmpeg.
1920×1080 · 30fpsRefresh a repo
Hand the agent a git repo + DESIGN.md and it refactors your real components to the brand spec.
Figma → React / Vue
design-systems/linear-app/DESIGN.md — a 9-section brand contract covering palette, type, spacing, motion and anti-patterns. Swap the system, the next render re-skins itself. That's the whole idea.