SMRTR ProgrammingMay 3, 2026Hacker News

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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Open Design is an open-source alternative to Anthropic's closed-source Claude Design tool, letting developers use their own coding agent CLIs (13 supported, including Claude Code, Copilot, and Gemini CLI) as design engines. It ships with 31 composable skills and 72 design systems, runs locally or deploys to Vercel, and keeps everything BYOK with no vendor lock-in.

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