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Open Design 0.4.0

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🎉 71 PRs · 100+ contributors · 2 days — Open Design 0.4.0 levels up across the board: a brand-new live artifacts platform with a Composio connector catalog, MCP integration with every major AI editor, Critique Theater (Design Jury) scoring drafts before they ship, plus a wave of preview / agent / i18n / security work. 🚀

🔥 Highlights

• ✨ Live artifacts + Composio connector catalog. Designs that don't go stale: artifacts react to live data, and the new catalog plugs into hundreds of SaaS tools through Composio. (#381) Thanks @mrcfps.
• 🤖 MCP server (od mcp). Stop screenshotting your designs into Cursor — Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Zed, Windsurf and any MCP-aware tool now read your Open Design files directly. (#399) Thanks @emilneander.
• 🎭 Critique Theater (Design Jury) ships end-to-end. No more "good enough" drafts: every artifact gets graded by five panelists on accessibility, brand fit, and craft, and only ships above 8/10. (#387, #481) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• ⚡ Live-reload + Tweaks-mode HTML previews. Stop hitting reload — save a file and the preview refreshes itself; click any element to drop a tweak straight into the agent's context. (#384, #409, #513) Thanks @bankielewicz and @Martin-Atrin.
• 🪢 Link code folder for agent context. Your agent can finally see your design and your code repo at the same time — point it at a folder, no copy-paste. (#455) Thanks @encyc.
• 🤖 Kilo CLI + DeepSeek TUI agent adapters. Two more AI agents to pick from — Open Design now drives 13+ coding CLIs out of the box. (#439, #480) Thanks @Ajay-Satish-01 and @pftom.
• 🌍 Five new locale pushes. Open Design speaks more of your team's languages — Ukrainian and full French UIs, refreshed Russian, plus Brazilian Portuguese and Arabic READMEs. (#326, #393, #395, #396, #397, #434, #458, #460) Thanks @davezfr, @DrMaks22, @devcodex2025, @qiongyu1999, and @oscarnogueira.
• 🔒 Daemon localhost binding + API key hygiene. Self-hosters can sleep better — Open Design no longer exposes itself to your LAN by default, and your API keys stay sealed when agents spawn. (#365, #392, #400, #404, #514) Thanks @JasonOA888, @sebastianwestberg, @aitonic, @VioletCoding, and @lefarcen.

📥 Download: final asset URLs are below. Tag: open-design-v0.4.0.

Platform	Architecture	Asset
macOS	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.4.0-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS (auto-update feed)	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.4.0-mac-arm64.zip
Windows	x64 (unsigned)	open-design-0.4.0-win-x64-setup.exe

✨ What's New

🤖 MCP & agent integration

• od mcp — stdio MCP server. Drop into Claude Code / Cursor / VS Code / Zed / Windsurf via standard MCP config. (#399) Thanks @emilneander.
• Link code folder support for agent context. (#455) Thanks @encyc.
• Kilo CLI (ACP) agent adapter. (#480) Thanks @Ajay-Satish-01.
• DeepSeek TUI agent adapter. (#439) Thanks @pftom.

🎭 Critique workflow

• Critique Theater Phase 4 — persistence, transcript, orchestrator. (#481) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• Critique Theater foundation — shared contracts and streaming v1 parser. (#387) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

🖼️ Preview pane

• Live-reload preview iframes. (#409) Thanks @bankielewicz.
• Tweaks mode for HTML previews — element picker, pod selection, batched chat attachments. (#513) Thanks @Martin-Atrin.
• URL-load HTML preview iframes by default. (#384) Thanks @bankielewicz.
• Live artifacts and Composio connector catalog. (#381) Thanks @mrcfps.

📦 Packaging & deployment

• Optimize packaged mac artifact size. (#424) Thanks @PerishCode.

🤖 Daemon

• OD_MEDIA_CONFIG_DIR for read-only / immutable installs. (#411) Thanks @GodTamIt.
• Modernized multi-provider API proxy routing (Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini). (#385) Thanks @lefarcen.
• Seed daemon with pre-baked decks and web prototypes. (#457) Thanks @pftom.

🎨 Skills, design systems & prompt templates

• Atelier Zero editorial collage landing-page design system. (#366) Thanks @pftom.
• open-design-landing rename + kami skill bundle + landing OG assets. (#428) Thanks @pftom.
• Craft animation-discipline module + opt-ins on mobile-app, mobile-onboarding, gamified-app. (#515) Thanks @MohamedAbdallah-14.
• Craft state-coverage module + opt-ins on dashboard, mobile-app, kanban-board. (#502) Thanks @MohamedAbdallah-14.

📁 Design Files

• Batch ZIP download with multi-select. (#405) Thanks @dabing1022.

🌍 Internationalization

• 🇫🇷 Complete French localization, README, and Quickstart. (#326, #397, #434) Thanks @davezfr.
• 🇺🇦 Ukrainian UI localization. (#395) Thanks @devcodex2025.
• 🇷🇺 Russian UI refresh + README + gallery metadata. (#393, #396) Thanks @DrMaks22.
• 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese README. (#460) Thanks @oscarnogueira.
• 🇸🇦 Arabic README translation. (#458) Thanks @qiongyu1999.

🛡️ Stability & Reliability

• 🔒 Bind daemon to localhost by default with origin validation. (#365) Thanks @JasonOA888.
• 🔑 Strip ANTHROPIC_API_KEY when spawning Claude Code + preserve when ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL is set. (#400, #514) Thanks @sebastianwestberg and @VioletCoding.
• 📦 Preserve *_API_KEY env vars for CLI agents in packaged builds. (#404) Thanks @aitonic.
• 🌐 Normalize daemon proxy origins. (#392) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🆔 Daemon package.json resolves from any compiled layout so the packaged app reports the correct version. (#537) Thanks @jinmeihong0201-gif.
• 🛂 Correct Claude Code --add-dir capability detection. (#440) Thanks @1119302165.
• 🔧 Handle ACP -32603 errors gracefully in session/set_model. (#492) Thanks @goemonwanwan.
• 📂 Skill resources via cwd-relative aliases + nested project file paths. (#401, #435) Thanks @nikshh and @fancyboi999.
• 🔌 Respect baseUrl path verbatim in OpenAI-compat proxy. (#410) Thanks @GodTamIt.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 📜 Prevent vertical scrollbar on artifact preview frame and ws-tabs-bar. (#448, #453) Thanks @nmsn.
• 🔠 Language option button height truncation in Settings. (#447) Thanks @nmsn.
• 🃏 Aspect-ratio cards no longer overflow into siblings. (#476) Thanks @dabing1022.
• 📋 Copy buttons on FileViewer code blocks. (#471) Thanks @jiakeboge.
• ⚙️ Lowercase todowrite compatibility in ToolCard. (#523) Thanks @1119302165.
• 💧 Cap htmlPreviewSlideState Map to prevent memory leak. (#488) Thanks @hobostay.
• 🖼️ Isolate preview blob export paths. (#429) Thanks @Aresdgi.
• 🗂️ Split execution-mode tabs and align active chip visuals. (#418) Thanks @monshunter.
• 🎨 Tighten entry-tab layout and design-system showcase color picker. (#412) Thanks @pftom.
• 🌒 Lift coming-soon tip above sticky tabs and make it readable in dark theme. (#382) Thanks @emilneander.
• 📁 Clear Design Files selection on project switch. (#465) Thanks @dabing1022.
• 🤖 Copilot prompt processing with correct command format. (#466) Thanks @albertasaftei.
• 🤖 Codex Gemini CLI trust handling + sandbox invocation. (#352, #477) Thanks @danduma and @irixzafra.
• 🍎 Show window on macOS dock activate. (#270) Thanks @StotheC90.
• 📦 Bundle prompt templates in packaged desktop resources. (#417) Thanks @Romantin.
• 🚀 Deploy landing-page with npm wrangler. (#421) Thanks @mrcfps.
• 🔄 Refactor RUNTIME_DATA_DIR resolution. (#391) Thanks @vistar.

📚 Documentation

• 💬 Discord invite badge in README. (#504) Thanks @joeylee12629-star.
• 📥 Surface desktop downloads in README. (#522) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
• 🚦 "Running the Project" section in README. (#468) Thanks @sinamashini.
• 🤝 First-PR link points to /contribute. (#494) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🌐 Defer README template-driven generation. (#403) Thanks @laihenyi.

🔨 For Developers

✅ System Requirements

• macOS — Apple Silicon (arm64) only, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer. Intel macs are not supported.
• Windows — x64, Windows 10 / 11. Installer is unsigned (SmartScreen will warn on first launch — choose "More info → Run anyway").
• Linux — no packaged desktop artifact in 0.4.0 stable; run from source while the AppImage release lane is hardened.
• 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 Linux desktop package in 0.4.0 stable — AppImage packaging is deferred while the containerized release lane is hardened. Run from source for now.
• 🍎 No macOS Intel (x64) build — Apple Silicon only.
• 🐚 od CLI shadows the POSIX od (octal dump) when installed globally. Use /usr/bin/od or command od for the system tool.
• 🌐 i18n metadata drift on new prompt templates — A handful of templates still don't have display titles in every UI locale; the i18n coverage test step is still skipped in release-stable.

Full Changelog: open-design-v0.3.0...open-design-v0.4.0