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Open Design 0.5.0

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🎉 51 PRs · 36 contributors · ~1 day — Open Design 0.5.0 turns the corner from "render once" to "iterate forever": live-data dashboards as a first-class artifact category, Inspect mode for per-element style tuning, an accent-color theme system for the launcher, Critique Theater Phase 5, plus a new agent (Qoder), a new image provider (Nano Banana), Linux headless mode, and a long fix queue from 16 beta cycles. 🚀

🔥 Highlights

• 📊 Three new live-dashboard skills. Generic live-dashboard (Notion-style team dashboard, #778), clinic-console template added to the existing live-artifact skill (#795), and template-mode flowai-live-dashboard-template (#801) — all targeting the 0.4.0 Live Artifacts surface so generated artifacts pull from real data instead of frozen mocks. Thanks @Adityagaddhyan, @yashverma48, and @kushwahasonam.
• 🗂️ First prompt template under the Live Artifact category. Notion-style team dashboard under prompt-templates/image/ — template-only, no surface or loader changes. (#799) Thanks @Joey-nexu.
• 🔬 Inspect mode for live per-element style tuning. Click anything in the preview to inspect and tweak its computed styles — color, spacing, type — without round-tripping through the agent. (#362) Thanks @pftom.
• 🎨 Accent color control + launcher. Pick the brand color you want Open Design itself to wear — global accent persists across the desktop launcher and entry view. (#683) Thanks @feroomon2010.
• 🎭 Critique Theater Phase 5: panel prompts + system composer. The jury picks up its scoring rubric from a panel-level prompt template wired through the shared system composer, so critiques stay coherent across runs. (#524) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• 📤 Project transcript export. Daemon now writes a structured transcript to disk for downstream tools (replay, audit, sharing) — prereq for #450. (#493) Thanks @bryanatkinson.
• 🤖 Qoder CLI agent + Nano Banana image provider. Open Design now drives Qoder out of the box, and image projects can target the new Nano Banana provider. (#626, #631) Thanks @mamba and @zztdan.
• 🐧 Linux headless install/start/stop. A non-graphical lifecycle path so Open Design can run on servers and CI without a desktop session. (#686) Thanks @jheison-martinez.
• 🇮🇩 Indonesian (id) UI locale. (#414) Thanks @aqilaziz.

📥 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-v0.5.0.

Platform	Architecture	Asset
macOS	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.5.0-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS (auto-update feed)	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.5.0-mac-arm64.zip
Windows	x64 (unsigned)	open-design-0.5.0-win-x64-setup.exe

✨ What's New

🔬 Editing & inspection

• 🔬 Inspect mode. Live per-element style tuning in the HTML preview. (#362) Thanks @pftom.
• 🎨 Accent color control + launcher. Theme Open Design itself. (#683) Thanks @feroomon2010.
• 🧰 SketchEditor text prompt becomes a modal so long prompts stop getting clipped. (#738) Thanks @pftom.
• 🧹 Tweaks-mode tooltip noise removed. (#697) Thanks @bojiehbj.

🤖 Agents & daemon

• 🤖 Qoder CLI agent adapter. (#626) Thanks @mamba.
• 🛣️ Override Codex executable path. Useful for nvm / mise / fnm-installed toolchains. (#755) Thanks @shangxinyu1.
• 🎨 Codex image projects can use built-in imagegen. (#622) Thanks @DehengHuang.
• 📡 Copilot prompts delivered via stdin. Removes another argv-too-large class of failure on Windows. (#727) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🧪 Connection tests for execution settings. Verify provider config without launching a chat. (#507) Thanks @monshunter.
• 📤 Project transcript export. (#493) Thanks @bryanatkinson.
• 🔍 GUI-launched agents discover toolchain on minimal PATH. (#614) Thanks @XinminZeng.
• 🧠 DeepSeek v4 models in catalog. (#722) Thanks @1119302165.
• 🐍 Watcher ignores .venv and other large dirs. Stops project file watcher from melting on Python projects. (#531) Thanks @1119302165.
• 🌐 Portless Origin accepted in CORS whitelist. Restores Chrome compatibility for some embed scenarios. (#735) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 📁 OD_LEGACY_DATA_DIR migrator moves .od/ users into the desktop data layout cleanly. (#712) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

🎭 Critique Theater

• 🎯 Phase 5: panel prompt template + system composer wiring. (#524) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

🎬 Media generation

• 🍌 Nano Banana image provider. (#631) Thanks @zztdan.
• 🎞️ HyperFrames video previews + provider badge + source filter. Browsing video templates is no longer a guessing game. (#293) Thanks @pftom.
• ⏱️ Extend OpenAI image request timeouts so larger generations stop being killed mid-flight. (#788) Thanks @lefarcen.

🎨 Skills, design systems & prompt templates

• 📊 live-dashboard skill — generic Live Artifact dashboard template. (#778) Thanks @Adityagaddhyan.
• 🩺 clinic-console live-artifact template. (#795) Thanks @yashverma48.
• 📈 FlowAI live dashboard template skill. (#801) Thanks @kushwahasonam.
• 🗂️ Notion-style team dashboard prompt template. (#799) Thanks @Joey-nexu.
• 📝 waitlist-page skill. (#555) Thanks @VedankVansia.
• 📱 social-media-dashboard skill + Totality Festival design system. (#678) Thanks @Tuola-waj.
• 🛰️ Five Orbit briefing templates. (#671) Thanks @anders-eli.
• 🧱 Craft form-validation module. Generated forms now follow modern RHF/Zod patterns instead of 2018 Formik habits. (#625) Thanks @MohamedAbdallah-14.

📁 Files & previews

• 📄 Alert when PDF export popup is blocked. (#664) Thanks @PratikRai.
• 📐 Tighter ws-tabs-bar scrollbar. Filenames stop overlapping the bar. (#781) Thanks @arunkukrety.
• 🪟 Fix chat pane overflow. (#740)
• 📦 Claude Design ZIP import works on Node 24 + the file ceiling is raised. (#591) Thanks @gabriel-vaz.

🐧 Packaging & platforms

• 🐧 Linux headless install / start / stop. (#686) Thanks @jheison-martinez.
• 🪟 Improved Windows beta packaging and installer flow. Smaller, faster, cleaner namespace handling. (#768) Thanks @PerishCode.
• ☁️ Beta release publishing migrated to R2. (#805) Thanks @PerishCode.
• 🪟 Fix Windows link-code-folder dialog. (#698) Thanks @Xuncha.
• 🪟 Consistent desktop entry chrome. (#655) Thanks @Siri-Ray.

🌍 Internationalization & docs

• 🇮🇩 Indonesian (id) UI locale. (#414) Thanks @aqilaziz.
• 🇺🇦 Ukrainian prompt template fixes + duplicate-key cleanup. (#674, #680) Thanks @Caprika and @lefarcen.
• 🇪🇸 Spanish README aligned to the es-ES.ts locale. (#611) Thanks @israelcastro.
• 🐦 @nexudotio X account surfaced in README + entry sidebar. (#696) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🔗 Fix broken pi-ai links (404'd after the package split). (#277) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 📚 Linux namespace env var documented in tools-pack. (#670) Thanks @PerishCode.

🛡️ Stability & Reliability

• 🧩 Design-system selection persists in web. (#621) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🧪 Aligned design-system default test fixture. (#708) Thanks @marcchan.
• 🧰 OpenCode error frames surfaced; empty-output runs treated as failed instead of silently succeeding. (#700) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🪟 Settings dialog scroll behavior. (#667) Thanks @JieZhu.
• 🔠 Wider settings subtitle. (#747) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
• 🔍 Diagnose missing Next package during tools-dev web startup. (#675) Thanks @iuliandita.
• 🧹 Batch of small bug fixes for #283, #275, #390. (#530) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🪟 Tweaks-mode element-selector tooltip removed. (#697) Thanks @bojiehbj.
• 🪟 Chat pane overflow. (#740)
• 📐 ws-tabs-bar scrollbar. (#781) Thanks @arunkukrety.
• 📁 .venv ignored by project file watcher. (#531) Thanks @1119302165.

📚 Documentation

• 🇪🇸 README.es alignment to es-ES locale. (#611) Thanks @israelcastro.
• 🐦 @nexudotio X account in README + entry sidebar. (#696) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 🔗 pi-ai link split fix. (#277) Thanks @lefarcen.
• 📚 Linux tools-pack namespace env doc. (#670) Thanks @PerishCode.

🔨 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 — first-class headless lifecycle support lands in 0.5.0 (install, start, stop from CLI). A packaged Linux desktop GUI artifact is still deferred while the 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 are expected. Code signing is still follow-up work.
• 🍎 No macOS Intel (x64) build. Apple Silicon only.
• 🐧 No Linux desktop GUI package in 0.5.0 stable — use headless mode or run from source.
• 🐚 od CLI shadows POSIX od when installed globally. Use /usr/bin/od or command od for the system tool.

🚀 Releasing this PR

This PR ships:

1. 📦 All 13 monorepo package.json files bumped to 0.5.0 (root, apps/{web,daemon,desktop,packaged,landing-page}, packages/{contracts,platform,sidecar,sidecar-proto}, tools/{dev,pack}, e2e). Internal workspace specifiers are workspace:*, so no lockfile change was needed.
2. 📝 CHANGELOG.md — new [0.5.0] - 2026-05-07 entry covering the 51 merged PRs since 0.4.1, plus footnote refs for new PR numbers.

The release-stable workflow already lives on main; no infrastructure changes here. After merge, dispatch release-stable with mac_signed=true to publish.

Local verify dry-run before opening this PR:

• pnpm install (workspace links — lockfile already in sync)
• pnpm --filter @open-design/contracts --filter @open-design/desktop --filter @open-design/daemon run build (populates dist/ for downstream typecheck consumers; contracts must be rebuilt because 09eb88f and 988fd6d added new exported members like providerId / accountId / ImportFolderRequest / ImportFolderResponse)
• pnpm typecheck → exit 0 across all 13 packages

(Local Node was 22.22.0, so pnpm printed engine warnings for the repo's ~24 requirement; matches the 0.3.0 / 0.4.1 release dry-runs.)

Full Changelog: open-design-v0.4.1...release/v0.5.0