Open Design

Changelog

Roadmap, in public.

Curated from the GitHub roadmap.md and Releases. For the live commit log, see github.com/nexu-io/open-design/commits/main.

  1. 2026-05-07 Shipped

    v0.5.0 — Inspect mode, live dashboards, Critique Phase 5, Linux headless, Docker compose

    Inspect mode for per-element style tuning in the HTML preview — click anything, tweak computed styles, no agent round-trip (PR #362). Live data dashboards graduate to a first-class artifact category: live-dashboard (PR #778), clinic-console template under live-artifact (PR #795), flowai-live-dashboard-template (PR #801), Notion-style team dashboard prompt template (PR #799). Critique Theater Phase 5 — panel-level prompt template wired through the shared system composer (PR #524). Accent color theme system + launcher (PR #683). Project transcript export (PR #493). Linux first-class headless install/start/stop (PR #686). Official Docker Compose self-host path (single Alpine image, daemon serves API + Next.js export). Qoder CLI agent adapter hardened (PR #626). Nano Banana image provider (PR #631). Connection tests for execution settings (PR #507). Built-in research mode (Tavily integration). Indonesian (id) UI locale (PR #414). Craft laws-of-ux module. New skills: waitlist-page, dcf-valuation, last30days, x-research, plus 31 html-ppt-zhangzara-* deck variants. New design systems: bmw-m, mission-control, urdu. Catalog grew skills 70 → 110, design systems 138 → 141. 51 PRs from 36 contributors.

  2. 2026-05-06 Shipped

    v0.4.1 — Manual edit mode, Cmd+P switcher, packaging hotfix

    Manual edit mode for direct artifact edits (PR #620). Cmd/Ctrl+P quick file switcher (PR #556). Resizable chat panel (PR #563). Craft accessibility-baseline + rtl-and-bidi modules. Packaged desktop startup fix (contracts build → dist/*.mjs + .d.ts). Packaged runtime beta gating before promotion. macOS native quit behavior. Honored model name in PI initial status. i18n structure checks.

  3. 2026-05-05 Shipped

    v0.4.0 — MCP server, Critique Theater, Live artifacts, Tweaks mode

    od mcp exposes Open Design as a stdio MCP server (Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / VS Code / Antigravity / Zed / Windsurf can read your project files directly). Critique Theater Phase 4 — Design Jury panelists with persistence, transcript, orchestrator. Live artifacts + Composio connector catalog (Orbit-* skills). Tweaks mode for HTML previews (element picker, pod selection, batched chat attachments). Live-reload preview iframes. Linux x64 AppImage tooling. Kilo + DeepSeek TUI agent adapters. Modernized multi-provider proxy (Anthropic / OpenAI-compat / Azure OpenAI / Google Gemini). Atelier Zero design system. kami skill bundle (kami-deck, kami-landing). Skills & design systems management page in Settings. Complete French + Ukrainian + refreshed Russian + Brazilian Portuguese + Arabic localization. Bind daemon to localhost by default. 71 PRs from 40+ contributors.

  4. 2026-05-03 Shipped

    v0.3.0 — Linux desktop, Codex Pet, taste-skills, fr/ru locales

    Linux packaging (AppImage via tools-pack). Codex hatch-pet companion. 5 new taste-derived skills (html-ppt-taste-{brutalist,editorial}, web-prototype-taste-{brutalist,editorial,soft}). Native Azure + Google providers. pptx-html-fidelity-audit wired into export. Native .pptx Save-As. Export as Markdown. /api/projects/:id/deploy/preflight. Mistral Vibe + Devin terminal CLI adapters. fr + ru UI locales. 39 PRs from 25 contributors.

  5. 2026-05-02 Shipped

    v0.2.0 — Dark mode, xAI Grok Imagine, headless deploy, +4 locales

    Dark mode toggle. xAI Grok Imagine (image, video, native audio). React artifact output. OpenClaude fallback for Claude Code. kami editorial DS. html-ppt skill (15 templates). 11 HyperFrames video templates. Three-Kingdoms ARPG Seedance + screenshot templates. --prod / OD_HOST headless deploy. ko / hu / pl / tr UI locales. 45 PRs from 27 contributors.

  6. 2026-05 Shipped

    Sidecar protocol + headless Electron desktop

    Stamped processes (app · mode · namespace · ipc · source) and JSON-RPC IPC at /tmp/open-design/ipc/<ns>/<app>.sock. tools-dev inspect desktop status | eval | screenshot drives a real Electron shell from a headless harness.

  7. 2026-05 Shipped

    Artifact lint API + 5-dim self-critique pre-emit gate

    POST /api/artifacts/lint runs structural checks (broken artifact framing, missing side files, stale palette tokens). The 5-dim self-critique uses these findings to ground its score in real evidence.

  8. 2026-04 Shipped

    Claude Design ZIP import

    POST /api/import/claude-design extracts a Claude Design export ZIP into a real .od/projects/<id>/, opens the entry file as a tab, stages a continue prompt for your local agent.

  9. 2026-04 Shipped

    OpenAI-compatible BYOK proxy

    POST /api/proxy/stream forwards SSE chunks to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with SSRF guards. DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, MiMo, vLLM, Anthropic-via-OpenAI shim — all work.

  10. 2026-04 Shipped

    SQLite-backed projects · conversations · messages · tabs

    Persisted at .od/app.sqlite. Reopen tomorrow, the agent's todo card and open files are exactly where you left them.

  11. 2026-03 Shipped

    31 skills · 129 design systems · 5 visual directions · 5 device frames

    Skill catalog and DS catalog hit critical mass. iPhone 15 Pro / Pixel / iPad Pro / MacBook / Browser Chrome frames shared cross-skill.

  12. 2026-03 Shipped

    Web app: chat · question form · 5-direction picker · TodoWrite · sandboxed preview

    The closed loop runs end-to-end. Pre-flight side-file injection enforces the agent reads the seed template + references before painting.

  13. 2026-03 Shipped

    Daemon + agent detection (12 CLI adapters) + skill/DS registry

    PATH-scan agent detection. One adapter per CLI — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, Qwen, Copilot, Devin, Hermes, Kimi, Kiro, Vibe, Pi. Now grown to 16 adapters (added Qoder, Kilo, DeepSeek TUI through v0.4.0).

  14. 2026-05-05 Shipped

    Tweaks mode for HTML previews

    Element picker, pod selection, and batched chat attachments. Shipped in v0.4.0 (PR #513). The agent surfaces parameters worth nudging straight from the preview.

  15. 2026-05-06 Shipped

    Manual edit mode for surgical artifact edits

    Direct in-preview edits without a chat round-trip. Shipped in v0.4.1 (PR #620). Combined with comment-mode attachments, targeted patching is reliable end-to-end.

  16. — Planned

    Vercel + tunnel deployment recipe (Topology B)

    Documented end-to-end recipe for splitting the daemon and web layer across networks.

  17. — Planned

    One-command `npx od init`

    Scaffold a project with DESIGN.md and a starter SKILL.md without cloning the full repo.

  18. — Planned

    Skill marketplace (`od skills install <github-repo>`)

    Install / list / remove / test arbitrary SKILL.md repos. Drafted in docs/skills-protocol.md.

  19. 2026-05-06 Shipped

    Packaged Electron build

    Distributable desktop binaries out of apps/packaged/. macOS .dmg + Windows NSIS shipping; Linux AppImage tooling landed in v0.4.0 (stable artifact deferred while containerized packaging hardens).