open-design

🎉 107 PRs · 49 contributors · 3 days — A memory-plus-UI release: auto-memory store carries agent context across runs and projects, Critique Theater advances to Phase 7 (state machine + replay) with daemon-side Phase 6.2 artifact extraction, HyperFrames lands HTML-in-Canvas end-to-end, and the web UI gets a top-to-bottom Designs tab redesign, in-context preview comments, a unified Media tab, and a tweaks palette with HSL hue-shift recoloring. Plus responsive design handoff outputs, install/uninstall skills & design systems in-app, HTTP 206 range requests for video/audio, scheduled routines, macOS Intel (x64) builds, an official Nix flake, four new design systems (hud, loom, trading-terminal, WeChat), and an agent-browser skill. 🚀

🔥 Highlights

• 🧠 Auto-memory store. Tired of re-explaining your brand voice, audience, and constraints every new conversation? Open Design now remembers — agent context carries across runs and projects, same idea as the global memory inside Claude Code but glued to your design project. (#999) Thanks @pftom.
• 🎭 Critique Theater Phase 7 + 6.2. Stop losing your critique to a laptop sleep — the panel survives a refresh, replays cleanly, reconnects mid-run. Jury-tagged artifacts now ship as real project assets instead of just panel chatter. (#1307, #1085) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• 🎨 Designs tab redesign. The tab you open every day now has covers, tags, an overflow menu, and multi-select — finding the right artifact stops being a hunt through a long list. (#1161) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 💬 In-context preview comments. Drop comments directly on the artifact preview without leaving the workspace — feedback lives where the design lives, not in a separate thread. (#1276) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 🖼️ HyperFrames HTML-in-Canvas. Storyboards stop being frozen mockups — embed real interactive HTML inside canvas templates and it renders end-to-end across web and skills. No more "imagine this is clickable." (#866) Thanks @pftom.
• 🎬 Unified Media tab. Image, video, and audio entries consolidate into one tab — no more bouncing between three near-identical surfaces. (#1167) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 🎨 Tweaks palette with HSL hue-shift recoloring. Recolor a brand swatch right from the palette popover — drag the hue / saturation / lightness slider and see the canvas update inline. (#1292) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 📥 In-app install for skills & design systems. Stop cloning the repo to try a new aesthetic — one click and it's there. Uninstall is just as easy. (#1003) Thanks @encyc.
• 🎞️ HTTP 206 range requests for video / audio. Preview a 500MB video without waiting for a 500MB download — seek anywhere instantly, no full-file pre-load. (#1105) Thanks @ak91456.
• 📅 Scheduled routines. Stop babysitting recurring work — schedule routines like "every weekday 9am, regenerate the metrics dashboard" and walk away. Unattended agent runs, set and forget. (#1033) Thanks @pftom.
• 🖥️ macOS Intel build + Nix flake. Intel Macs are back — no more "sorry, Apple Silicon only," DMG ships again. Nix/NixOS users install via the official flake.nix with first-class home-manager support. (#759, #402) Thanks @ggzeng and @GodTamIt.
• ⌨️ Cmd/Ctrl+, opens Settings. The shortcut your fingers already wanted — Settings now respect the platform shortcut convention with a proper badge in the menu. (#1173) Thanks @mrdiin.

📥 Download: Tag open-design-v0.7.0. All assets below are live on GitHub Releases and releases.open-design.ai.

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macOS	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.7.0-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS 🆕	Intel (x64)	open-design-0.7.0-mac-x64.dmg
macOS (auto-update feed)	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.7.0-mac-arm64.zip
Windows	x64 (unsigned)	open-design-0.7.0-win-x64-setup.exe

✨ What's New

🎭 Critique Theater

• Phase 7 web client state machine. Reducer + useCritiqueStream/useCritiqueReplay hooks for clean replays and mid-run reconnects. (#1307) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• Phase 6.2 daemon artifact extraction + endpoint. Critique-tagged artifacts are extracted server-side and served from a dedicated endpoint. (#1085) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

🖥️ Web & desktop UI

• 🎨 Designs tab redesign. Covers, tags, overflow menu, multi-select. (#1161) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 💬 In-context comment thread on the artifact preview. (#1276) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 🎬 Unified Media tab — Image / Video / Audio in one place. (#1167) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 🎨 Tweaks palette popover with HSL hue-shift recoloring. (#1292) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 📐 Responsive preview + design handoff outputs — tablet/mobile auto-fit, 2025–2026 viewport matrix, screen-file-first export, DESIGN-HANDOFF / DESIGN-MANIFEST exports. (#1224) Thanks @huyhoangnhh98.
• 👍 Thumbs-up / thumbs-down feedback widget under completed assistant turns. (#1308) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• ⌨️ Cmd/Ctrl+, opens Settings with a platform shortcut badge. (#1173) Thanks @mrdiin.
• 🏁 Finalize design package + Continue in CLI buttons. (#974) Thanks @bankielewicz.
• 🔄 Fetch models button for BYOK providers. (#1034) Thanks @Demoniooo.
• 🔠 Provider-model fetch results sorted alphabetically. (#1097) Thanks @Demoniooo.
• 📋 Collapsible MCP JSON field-mapping helper. (#1136) Thanks @Priyanshudotdev.
• 📜 Question forms scroll to top of viewport instead of pinning to the bottom. (#1044) Thanks @paulstean.
• 📏 Sidebar tabs flush to the workspace edge with internal scrolling. (#1038) Thanks @coder-zkl1988.
• ✏️ Design file rename support. (#894) Thanks @CIoudherd.

🤖 Agents & runtime

• Auto-memory store with chat-protocol-aware extraction. (#999) Thanks @pftom.
• Install / uninstall for skills & design systems from the desktop app. (#1003) Thanks @encyc.
• HTTP 206 range request support for video / audio files (closes #784). (#1105) Thanks @ak91456.
• Scheduled routines for unattended agent runs. (#1033) Thanks @pftom.
• 🛡️ Guard rails against agent-emitted stub artifact regressions. (#1171) Thanks @sebastianwestberg.
• 🚫 Reject filesystem root folder imports. (#1266) Thanks @donglrd.
• 🧹 Agent runtime + route registration split into focused modules (internal refactor). (#1063, #1043) Thanks @nettee.

🖼️ HyperFrames

• HTML-in-Canvas lands across web + skills. Embed live HTML inside canvas templates and it renders for real, end-to-end. (#866) Thanks @pftom.

🎨 Skills, design systems & templates

• 🪞 Skill model refactor. Code-driven skills cleanly separated from design-template assets, plus a new finalize-design API — contributing a new skill is half the work it was. (#955) Thanks @pftom.
• 🌐 Reliable agent-browser skill. (#1284) Thanks @alchemistklk.
• 💬 WeChat design system + login-flow skill (also fixes API-mode tool_calls bug). (#1083) Thanks @zxc000166.
• 📊 Three new design systems: hud, loom, trading-terminal with locale coverage. (#1069) Thanks @Ayush-Mahadik.
• 📝 release-notes-one-pager skill with supporting docs. (#873) Thanks @elefinnt.
• 🪙 Structured tokens.css schema for design systems (default + kami). (#1231) Thanks @zoeforfun.
• 🗂️ Smarter design files grouping. (#1082) Thanks @Romantin.
• 🕰️ Replace time-specific Orbit greetings with neutral defaults. (#1291) Thanks @Leesin0222.

📦 Packaging & distribution

• 🍎 macOS Intel (x64) build support in release workflows. (#759) Thanks @ggzeng.
• ❄️ Official Nix flake with home-manager and NixOS support. (#402) Thanks @GodTamIt.
• ⚡ Beta release packaging cache optimizations. (#1095) Thanks @PerishCode.

🌍 Internationalization & docs

• 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese QUICKSTART + Chinese doc link fixes. (#753) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.

⚙️ Settings & onboarding

• 🪧 Install onboarding links for unavailable local CLIs. (#985) Thanks @mecxist.

🛡️ Stability & Reliability

• 🔒 Conversation run isolation enforced — concurrent runs no longer cross-contaminate state. (#1271) Thanks @nettee.
• 🌐 Default English resource i18n fallback so missing translations don't break agent prompts. (#1270) Thanks @nettee.
• 🩹 [codex] Claude Code exit diagnostics improved. (#1267) Thanks @alchemistklk.
• 🩹 [codex] empty API responses handled as no output (not as errors). (#1244) Thanks @alchemistklk.
• 🛣️ Codex CLI path fallback UX improvements. (#1205) Thanks @shangxinyu1.
• 🧠 Use ACP config options for model selection. (#1208) Thanks @krishnashakula.
• 📡 Remove OpenCode stdin dash sentinel. (#1365) Thanks @PerishCode.
• 💾 Persist runStatus / endedAt on chat run termination. (#1230) Thanks @PerishCode.
• 🔀 Prefer opencode-cli over opencode binary. (#818) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• 💳 OpenCode Write tool displays as card, not raw JSON. (#1126) Thanks @1119302165.
• 🔐 Pin API-mode override above discovery layer. (#1207) Thanks @mutoe.
• 🪟 Windows silent reinstall closes the running app first. (#1238) Thanks @PerishCode.
• 🧰 Build desktop before packaged typecheck. (#1093) Thanks @mrcfps.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Web

• 🌑 Restore custom dropdown chevron for the timezone selector in dark mode. (#1368) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
• 🎨 Polish EntryView — sidebar layout, folder tabs, slim form, blue selected token. (#1360) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• 🌐 Design Files refresh strings now translate. (#1300) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• 📜 JSON file previews pretty-print. (#1206) Thanks @Kaelz31.
• 🎯 Tweaks selection stays usable without annotations. (#1268) Thanks @PerishCode.
• 🎨 Sketch JSON files render their static preview. (#1060) Thanks @Derrick-xn.
• 🏷️ <artifact> tags inside code spans / fences stop being treated as real artifacts. (#1132) Thanks @mutoe.
• 🔄 Home projects refresh after a conversation is deleted. (#1219) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• ✅ Finished tool calls actually finish. (#1240) Thanks @nettee.
• 🛡️ Prose-as-HTML artifacts blocked before they hit disk. (#1144) Thanks @mutoe.
• 🐾 Entry footer pet labels truncate cleanly. (#1150) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🔐 Connector auth errors surface; silent popup closes caught. (#1128) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• ❌ MCP picker dialog close button centered. (#1137) Thanks @zhujie007.
• 💬 Chat messages stop overflowing into the workspace pane. (#1104) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.
• 📝 New conversation creation guarded against accidental empty chats. (#1086) Thanks @zhujie007.
• 👁️ Examples preview dispatches on od.preview.type for correct routing. (#1001) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• ⬆️ Settings content scrolls back to top on section change. (#997) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• 💭 Pod-to-chat comments wrap text instead of truncating. (#1156) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.
• 🇨🇳 MCP server settings panel localized for the Chinese UI. (#760) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.
• 🎬 Media config restored from daemon on startup. (#687) Thanks @zztdandan.
• 💾 Autosave indicator suppressed for draft-only Connector key edits. (#1232) Thanks @Eggwardhan.
• 🔗 Example preview iframe sandbox handles links correctly. (#701) Thanks @meshackm.
• 🖨️ Popup-blocked PDF export falls back to native Electron print dialog. (#973) Thanks @PratikRai0101.
• 🇨🇳 Comments panel UI translated into Chinese. (#1139) Thanks @zhujie007.
• 🫥 Surface filter tabs with zero count hide themselves. (#965) Thanks @nmsn.
• 🎯 Design system filter popover stops shifting position on reopen. (#960) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.

Desktop

• 🍎 macOS close exits fullscreen first before hiding. (#1249) Thanks @PerishCode.
• 📏 Main client window enforces a minimum size. (#1203) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• 📄 about:blank popups allowed for PDF export fallback. (#1081) Thanks @hitken.
• 🪟 Daemon's external-browser opener fixed on Windows. (#953) Thanks @Sapientropic.

Misc

• 🧹 Stale upload failure banner clears on fresh preview. (#797) Thanks @mvanhorn.
• 🐾 Trump pet removed from bundled community pets. (#1103) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
• 🤐 Artifact-handoff prompt gains a "when NOT to emit" guardrail. (#1145) Thanks @mutoe.
• 📝 Pending prompt clears properly between template invocations. (#1148) Thanks @imzihuailin.
• ❄️ nix run writes to a sensible default OD_DATA_DIR. (#1159) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
• 🔍 Landing page SEO: correct canonical, robots.txt, favicons. (#1061) Thanks @joeylee12629-star.
• 🧱 Modal footer top padding increased. (#957) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
• 🎯 Project type selector arrows stop overlapping the tabs. (#1091) Thanks @zhujie007.

📚 Documentation

• 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese QUICKSTART — Taiwan/HK/Macau users get a proper getting-started doc. (#753) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.

🔨 For Developers

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• 🧪 Stabilize extended Playwright coverage. (#1341)
• 🧪 Nightly UI + desktop regression coverage expanded. (#1256)
• 🧪 e2e smoke + release reports hardened. (#1140)
• 🧪 Entry + settings automation coverage expanded. (#954)
• 📊 Generated GitHub metrics SVG + contributors wall refreshed. (#1115, #1117, #1183, #1188, #1328, #1330)

✅ System Requirements

• 🍎 macOS — Apple Silicon (arm64) and Intel (x64) 🆕, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer.
• 🪟 Windows — x64, Windows 10 / 11. Installer is unsigned (SmartScreen warns on first launch — choose "More info → Run anyway").
• 🐧 Linux — headless lifecycle support (install / start / stop from CLI). Packaged GUI artifact deferred while the release lane is hardened.
• ❄️ Nix — official flake at flake.nix with home-manager and NixOS support.
• 🧑‍💻 From source — Node.js 24.x and pnpm 10.33.2+ (per engines in package.json).

⚠️ Known Issues

• 🪟 Windows installer is unsigned. SmartScreen / antivirus warnings expected on first launch. Code signing still follow-up work.
• 🐧 No Linux desktop GUI package in 0.7.0 stable — use headless mode, the Nix flake, or run from source.
• 🐚 od CLI shadows POSIX od when installed globally. Use /usr/bin/od or command od for the system tool.

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/compare/open-design-v0.6.0...release/v0.7.0