🎉 45 PRs · 23 contributors · 24 hours — Open Design 0.2.0 is here, and it's the biggest single-day product wave this project has shipped. ⚡ Generate image / video / audio inside the chat. Ship cinematic videos with 11 ready-to-go HyperFrames prompts. Build polished slide decks with the new html-ppt skill. Drop screenshots straight into preview comments. Toggle dark mode. Speak 13 languages. And under the hood: headless --prod deploy + OpenClaude fallback. Built by the community, in a single day. 🚀
🔥 Highlights
- 💬 Click-to-comment on HTML previews — pins anchor to elements, feed straight to your agent. Pick an element, drop a pin or screenshot; selected comments become hidden agent context, turning "make this blue" into a real revision. (#284) Thanks @alchemistklk.
- 🎬 xAI Grok Imagine integration — image, video, and native audio in one stack. Bring your own xAI key, generate all three media types right inside chat. (#276) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🎞️ 11 new HyperFrames video prompt templates. Cinematic openers, product reveals, character intros — pick a template, swap a couple of details, get a video that looks director-shot. Zero prompt engineering, zero blank canvas. (#227) Thanks @pftom.
- 🖼️ New
html-ppt skill for HTML slide decks. The lewislulu/html-ppt-skill is now built in with 15 production-ready Example cards. Idea → polished deck in minutes — no PowerPoint, no Figma file, no design tax. (#193) Thanks @pftom.
- 🌒 Dark mode — system / light / dark toggle across the entire UI. Settings, Chat, and Preview panes all got a fresh coat. Finally. (#259) Thanks @sysCat64.
- 🌍 Four new UI languages: Hungarian, Polish, Korean, Turkish. Open Design now ships with 13 UI locales out of the box — the localization community keeps showing up. (#233, #253, #273, #288) Thanks @codefl0w, @2YoungKim, @karolgajda-techsquare, and @komlosizsolt.
📥 Download: the table below points at the final asset URLs — links go live once this PR is merged and the release-stable workflow finishes. Tag: open-design-v0.2.0.
✨ What's New
🌒 Dark mode and UI polish
- 🌒 System / light / dark toggle. Refreshed styling across Settings, Chat, and Preview. (#259) Thanks @sysCat64.
- ⏱️ Visible conversation timestamps. Every chat turn shows when it happened. (#120) Thanks @Siri-Ray.
- 💬 Preview comment attachments. Drop screenshots / files straight into comments. (#284) Thanks @alchemistklk.
- 🟦 React artifact output. Render React components inline next to chat. (#121) Thanks @Siri-Ray.
🎬 Media generation
- 🎨 xAI Grok Imagine integration. Image, video, and native audio via your own xAI key. (#276) Thanks @lefarcen.
🤖 Agents & daemon
- 🔀 OpenClaude auto-detected as a Claude Code fallback. No more "agent not found" on machines without Claude Code installed. (#263) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 📥 Standardized stdin agent communication. Single code path across all agents, Windows-specific shims removed. (#258) Thanks @RinZ27.
🎨 Skills, design systems & prompt templates
- 📰
kami editorial paper design system with a deck starter. (#226) Thanks @pftom.
- 🖼️
html-ppt skill — lewislulu/html-ppt-skill integrated with 15 per-template Examples cards. (#193) Thanks @pftom.
- 📋
design-brief skill with structured I-Lang input format. (#184) Thanks @adsorgcn.
- 🎯 Brand-agnostic craft references and Refero-derived lint rules. (#225) Thanks @pftom.
- 🎞️ 11 HyperFrames video prompt templates + media generation README section. (#227) Thanks @pftom.
- 🎮 Three Kingdoms ARPG bundle — 3 Seedance 2.0 video templates + 3 gameplay screenshot templates. (#207, #212) Thanks @Tuola-waj.
- 💃 Otaku-dance choreography breakdown + 🥋 anime fighting game screenshot templates. (#208, #209) Thanks @Tuola-waj.
📦 Deployment & tooling
- 🖥️
--prod flag and OD_HOST for headless server deployment in tools-dev. (#222) Thanks @yamsfeer.
- 🛠️ GitHub CI workflow — typecheck + test on every push. (#271) Thanks @mrcfps.
- 🧪 Daemon
kindFor / mimeFor file classifier tests. (#269) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
🌍 Internationalization
🛡️ Stability & Reliability
- 🟢
startServer Promise contract restored — daemon embedders get back url / { url, server } reliably again. (#268) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 🛂 Codex reasoning effort clamped to model-supported values — no more silent rejection from upstream. (#223) Thanks @heylakatos.
- 📬 Claude Code prompts always go through stdin now — fixes
spawn E2BIG / ENAMETOOLONG on long conversations and large file uploads. (#143) Thanks @pcherkashin.
- 🪟 Windows hardening — quote agent bin path on
shell:true spawn, switch to junctions instead of dir symlinks in tools-dev. (#231, #232) Thanks @Foximo24 and @VitaminBFFM.
- 📦 Packaged app reports correct version —
package.json now lands inside the daemon tarball. (#260) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- 📡 Emit
tool_use from tool_execution_start in pi-rpc. (#186) Thanks @monotykamary.
- 🐍
.py files treated as previewable code in Design Files. (#261) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 🌐
OD_DAEMON_URL reports the actual allocated port instead of 0. (#240) Thanks @yuyihan666.
- 🅰️ Suppress Next.js hydration warning on
<body>. (#248) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 📋 Settings language dropdown overflow + scroll fixes. (#247, #281, #287) Thanks @zhujie007 and @sinamashini.
- 📑 Deck preview pagination — preserved per file, controls fixed. (#112, #119) Thanks @Siri-Ray.
- 🌐 zh-TW assistant role — replace hardcoded
Claude with 助手. (#262) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 🎚️
max_tokens now configurable (closes #29). (#78) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🖼️ Image / video projects now pick from prompt templates (not design systems). (#192) Thanks @pftom.
✅ System Requirements
- macOS — Apple Silicon (arm64) only, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer. Intel macs are not supported in 0.2.0.
- Windows — x64, Windows 10 / 11. Installer is unsigned (SmartScreen will warn on first launch — choose "More info → Run anyway").
- Linux — no packaged build; run from source or via the new
--prod headless mode.
- 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 on first launch. Code signing tracked for a follow-up release.
- 🍎 No macOS Intel (x64) build — Apple Silicon only.
- 🐧 No Linux desktop package —
--prod headless mode now makes self-hosting straightforward.
- 🌐 i18n metadata drift on new prompt templates — A handful of recent prompt templates don't yet have display titles in every UI locale; the
release-stable i18n coverage test is currently skipped. Tracked as a follow-up.
📚 Documentation
🔨 For Developers
Click to expand
- ⚡ Optimize Electron release artifact size. (#249) Thanks @mrcfps.
- 📊 Auto-generated metrics SVG updates. (#228, #241)
- 🔧 Fix metrics workflow protected branch updates. (#219) Thanks @mrcfps.
Full Changelog: open-design-v0.1.0...release/v0.2.0