Open Design 0.11.0: the Bazaar
Tag open-design-v0.11.0 — 137 PRs from 57 contributors in four days. Codename "the Bazaar." The plugin gallery now plays a live clip of every real output, whatever coding agent you already use just snaps in, and a newcomer's first run is a guided welcome instead of a locked gate.
Tag open-design-v0.11.0, shipped 17 June 2026. 137 PRs from 57 contributors in four days. Codename “the Bazaar.” A cathedral is built in private by a chosen few; a bazaar is built in the open, by everyone, all at once — and this release turns Open Design into the bazaar. Walk in, browse the stalls, pick up whatever catches your eye, and make it yours.
If you want the long version, the release notes on GitHub have it. This post is the short version: what opened up in this release, what you can do with it today, and where to start.
A gallery that finally shows off
A dead thumbnail makes you guess. The gallery in 0.11.0 doesn’t — every plugin card and detail page now plays a live clip of the real output, so you see what a deck or template actually does before you pick it.
The shelves are full, too. All 56 official decks got an on-brand glow-up unified around one product narrative, 23 community slide kits drawn from the best open-source slide skills joined the rows, and the HyperFrames video templates are fresh. Community decks now surface right on the Home screen with letterbox-free 16:9 previews. Browse the rows, hit play, grab what you like, and riff on it.
Bring the coding agent you already use
Open Design has never been about locking you into one tool, and this release widens the door further. Whatever coding agent you already wired into your day now snaps in right beside Claude.
Two brand-new adapters land for Amp and Codebuddy Code, the Kimi Code runtime is fixed, Codex gets subscription media, Antigravity is supported, the GitHub Copilot ceiling is roomier, and reasonix 1.x gets its MCP env. Any vendor can set up shop — you never have to switch the tool you trust to use the workspace around it.
A welcome, not a wall
A first run used to drop you into a control panel. In 0.11.0 it’s a guided path instead. A gated Connect step now comes with a tooltip that explains why it’s gated, a clean sequential stepper walks you through setup, BYOK auto-checks and CLI detection are smarter, and the jarring home-screen flash before onboarding even starts is gone.
The result is that the first five minutes feel like an invitation rather than a locked gate — a newcomer can wander in off the street and get to their first real run without hitting a wall.
The steadiest build yet
This is the biggest stability pass Open Design has shipped. The desktop window heals itself when the renderer dies or a load fails, runs never hang waiting on a question, and the preview stops reloading out from under you while you mark up, screenshot, or comment. A file-descriptor leak is plugged, the updater stops spinning at zero delay, and a long tail of dialog, picker, and screenshot glitches is gone. The build you keep open all day just stays up.
Two more edges got smoothed in the same pass. Your own keys stop fighting you — the Composio key gate is one click instead of a dead end, Gemini BYOK models track the current API (shut-down 2.0 out, 3.x in), and composer model switching finally sticks. And nothing leaks — preview URL handling is hardened and the local preview server binds to loopback by default, so a project preview never wanders onto your network.
What else lands in 0.11.0
The release is wide. A few more pieces worth pulling forward:
- Open Design has a real home on the web now. Design pages for all 21 supported agents, a full set of trust pages (about, FAQ, privacy, terms, a real 404) with a rebuilt footer, a purpose-built share card site-wide so every link you paste looks sharp, a rebuilt blog with a table of contents and full i18n, and an SEO + UX pass across the plugin pages.
- Two new community tutorials to get newcomers rolling.
- Faster cold starts. OpenCode bootstrap loading is now cached to cut the wait on the first run.
- Built to grow. Sandbox contract shapes and ownership guards are pinned, explicit-root imports are allowed, and model-orchestrator scratch workspaces land — the groundwork for what comes next.
The full list runs to 137 PRs. The release notes on GitHub carry the rest.
What to do with it today
| If you’re… | Start here |
|---|---|
| New to Open Design | Download the desktop app and follow the guided welcome — the gated Connect step and sequential stepper walk you to your first real run without a wall |
| Already running Open Design | Let the packaged auto-update bring you to 0.11.0, then open the gallery and hit play — every card now previews its real output |
| Using a different coding agent | Wire in Amp, Codebuddy Code, Kimi, Codex, Antigravity, or Copilot — whatever you already trust snaps in beside Claude |
| Shipping a deck | Browse the 56 official decks and 23 community slide kits, grab the one whose live clip you like, and make it yours |
What to do next
A bazaar only works if you can walk in and start picking things up. Download the desktop app, open the gallery, and let one of the live-preview decks catch your eye — then bring whatever coding agent you already use and make it yours.
137 PRs in four days, from 57 people setting up stalls in the open. The bazaar exists because so many contributors built in public — new adapters, refreshed decks, a smoother welcome — all at once, where everyone can see. A movement doesn’t ship from one team’s laptops; it ships from the people who showed up and built. We see you. 🫡
Related reading
- Open Design 0.10.0: the all-in-one design workspace — the one-window release this one opens up
- Open Design 0.9.0: design for everyone — the install-and-create release underneath the welcome
- Open Design 0.8.0: everything is a plugin — the plugin engine the gallery is built on