# OpenDesign

> Connects your coding agent to OpenDesign on your machine: start design runs, create projects and read the live files of your prototypes.

OpenDesign is an open-source, local-first design workspace. It generates prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides and other designs from a brief, using its skills, plugins and design systems, and previews them in its app. This plugin connects your coding agent to OpenDesign on your machine over MCP, so the agent can commission designs, read the live files of your prototypes and write back to them.

What you can do with it
- Start a design run from a brief, with one of OpenDesign's skills or plugins, and follow it until the preview is ready
- Create projects and artifacts, and write, search or delete files inside a project
- Read a project's live files, such as its tokens CSS, components and entry HTML, instead of a stale export
- See which project and file you have open in OpenDesign right now
- List the skills, plugins and agent CLIs OpenDesign can use

How it connects
- The plugin runs OpenDesign's local MCP server (od mcp) against its daemon at http://127.0.0.1:7456
- Install the OpenDesign desktop app (macOS or Windows), or run it from source or Docker, first, so the od command and its daemon are there
- OpenDesign does the design work with an agent CLI already on your machine, such as Claude Code or Codex, or with your own API key

Good to know
- On macOS, the system's own /usr/bin/od command can shadow OpenDesign's od. If the server won't start, copy the snippet from Settings → MCP server in the desktop app instead
- Projects stay on your machine, and the daemon only listens on 127.0.0.1
- Deleting a project needs its exact name and a confirmation
- Open source under the Apache 2.0 licence

- Type: Plugin
- Made by: nexu-io
- Category: Design
- Formats: Claude plugins
- Version: latest
- Website: https://open-design.ai
- Source: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/tree/HEAD/plugins/open-design
- Page: https://pluginboard.ai/plugins/open-design

## Works with

- Claude
- GitHub Copilot
- Claude Code
- OpenClaw

## Install

### Claude

In Claude (web or desktop): Customize → Plugins → Add → Add marketplace, enter nexu-io/open-design, then add open-design

### Claude Code

In Claude Code:

```text
/plugin marketplace add nexu-io/open-design
/plugin install open-design@open-design
```

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