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Notes to help you understand, explore, and build with Open Design — across product, guides, use cases, and community.
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Guides BYOK reality check: 5 things that break in Open Design today
We promised BYOK as first-class. Five open bug threads from this week — Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenCode, Windows — show where the seams are still rough, and what to use until each fix lands.
May 14, 2026 7 min read Read → -
Guides 31 skills, 72 systems: how the Open Design library works
A walk through the four primitives that make Open Design composable: skills, systems, adapters, and the daemon. With concrete examples of how a Markdown file becomes a pixel-perfect deliverable.
May 13, 2026 6 min read Read → -
Guides BYOK design workflow: run Claude, Codex, or Qwen on your own key
Most AI design tools quietly add a margin to every token you spend. Open Design takes the opposite stance — bring your own model key, pay the provider directly, and keep full control of where inference runs. Here's how the BYOK layer actually works.
May 13, 2026 6 min read Read → - Product
Why we built Open Design as a skill layer, not a product
Most AI design tools try to replace the agent already on your laptop. Open Design takes the opposite bet: ship a thin layer of skills, systems, and adapters that turn any coding agent into a design engine — without locking you into a new app.
May 13, 2026 5 min read Read →
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