Open Design AI Prototyping

Skill by ara.so — Design Skills collection.

Open Design is a local-first, open-source alternative to Claude Design that transforms coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, etc.) into design engines. It provides 31 composable skills, 129 brand-grade design systems, and a sandboxed preview environment with HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export capabilities.

What It Does

• Agent-Native Design: Detects 16 coding agent CLIs on your PATH and uses them as the design execution engine
• Skill-Driven Workflow: 31 built-in skills across web prototypes, decks, dashboards, mobile apps, marketing materials, and more
• Design Systems Library: 129 pre-built design systems (Linear, Stripe, Vercel, Airbnb, Tesla, Notion, etc.)
• Multi-Format Export: HTML, PDF, PPTX, MP4, ZIP, Markdown from a single artifact
• Local-First: SQLite persistence, on-disk project folders, no cloud lock-in
• BYOK Support: OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure/Google-compatible API proxy when no CLI is available

Installation

Quick Start (Local Development)