Open Design 0.13.0 — Stay in Flow

🌟 Codename: Stay in Flow

🧭 116 PRs · 26 contributors · 6 days — 0.13.0 keeps the design session alive. The old rhythm was easy to break: a run lost its place, a model picker made you guess, an OpenDesign Cloud balance check hid behind a retry, or a finished deck needed one more export detour. 0.13.0 turns those interruptions into a calmer loop: resume the work, see what is happening, choose the right model faster, and hand off real files without leaving Open Design. 🚀

🔥 Highlights

• 🧵 Resume the conversation instead of rebuilding the context. Long design sessions used to punish every interruption: switch tools, come back later, and the next prompt might feel like starting from scratch. Native session resume now keeps Codex, OpenCode, Pi, and OpenDesign Cloud runs connected across turns, so follow-up work can continue from the same live thread. (#4629) Thanks @lefarcen.

• 🔑 BYOK setup stops feeling like provider archaeology. Bringing your own keys should be a choice, not a scavenger hunt through model names and provider quirks. Presets now make provider setup clearer, and the first-artifact handoff is cleaner for both CLI and BYOK flows. (#4902, #4634) Thanks @PerishCode.

• 🤖 OpenDesign Cloud shows its wallet, its retries, and its next move. Balance checks are no longer a black box. The settings card shows wallet state more clearly, keeps actions inline, restores follow-up handling, and promotes retry statuses so a transient balance lookup feels recoverable instead of mysterious. (#4675, #4965, #4984, #5002, #5010, #5015) Thanks @alchemistklk.

• 📤 Exports behave more like deliverables. Finished work can now go straight to screenshot-backed PPTX and PDF output, while deck keyboard navigation no longer double-steps through slides. The export path feels closer to handoff, not a separate production chore. (#4604, #4897) Thanks @lefarcen, @PerishCode.

• 🧩 Design-system previews got richer and easier to trust. Brand pages stay previewable after prefetch, rich design-system chips are easier to scan, logo previews behave, and bundled plugin examples are easier to open as real projects. (#4530, #4776, #4806, #4861, #4952) Thanks @PerishCode, @pftom, chaoxiaoche.

• 🧠 Agent choices are broader, clearer, and less brittle. Open Design now recognizes the standalone Codex app bundle, ships a newer bundled Vela CLI, supports Mimo Code, and fixes the Cogito output cap so agent setup is less likely to fail for environmental reasons. (#4575, #4578, #4888, #4889) Thanks @Grumpster-Dev, @yangweijie, @lefarcen, @xne998808-ai.

• 🏢 Teams and official channels are easier to find. Workspace-for-Teams now has a visible entry point and enterprise lead page, official social links include Instagram, LinkedIn, and Xiaohongshu, and the product/resource navigation is less likely to steal clicks from the pages people meant to open. (#4737, #4779, #4784, #4977) Thanks @lefarcen, @tuola, @xne998808-ai.

• 🩺 When something fails, the app gives you a better starting point. Run lifecycle tracing, clearer task-failure cards, simpler error-source diagnostics, and better cache accounting make failed or resumed work easier to understand without turning the UI into a log viewer. (#4431, #4432, #4656, #4701, #4903) Thanks @PerishCode, michaeltaxman911-hue, @lefarcen.

📥 Download: Tag open-design-v0.13.0. All assets are published on GitHub Releases and releases.open-design.ai.

Platform	Architecture	Asset
macOS	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.13.0-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS	Intel (x64)	open-design-0.13.0-mac-x64.dmg
Windows	x64 (installer)	open-design-0.13.0-win-x64-setup.exe

✨ Added

🎨 Studio, export & design systems

• Programmatic screenshot-backed PPTX/PDF export so finished HTML work can move into shareable documents with less manual staging. (#4604) Thanks @lefarcen.
• Bundled Perplexity AI design-system plugin manifest and duplicated example plugins as projects, making real plugin material easier to inspect and reuse. (#4828, #4861) Thanks @MaxHsu, @pftom.
• Richer design-system chip and preview UI for scanned brands and built-in systems. (#4530, #4776, #4806) Thanks @PerishCode.
• Explicit data-od-id guidance in generated HTML prompts so inspect/edit affordances have a clearer contract. (#4305) Thanks @fuyizheng3120.

🔑 BYOK, OpenDesign Cloud & model choice

• BYOK provider presets to make model setup more discoverable. (#4902) Thanks @PerishCode.
• OpenDesign Cloud wallet balance visibility across the Settings card and follow-up flows. (#4675, #4965) Thanks @alchemistklk.
• Mimo Code support and a corrected Cogito output cap for broader agent/model coverage. (#4578, #4575) Thanks @yangweijie, @Grumpster-Dev.

🧠 Agents, sessions & diagnostics

• Native session resume across Codex, OpenCode, Pi, and OpenDesign Cloud so follow-up turns can reconnect to the same work. (#4629) Thanks @lefarcen.
• Run lifecycle tracing and touched-file tracking for better reopen and diagnosis flows. (#4431, #4432) Thanks @PerishCode.
• Packaged startup telemetry before daemon launch so early desktop failures are easier to see. (#4696) Thanks @lefarcen.

🌐 Home, teams & docs

• Workspace-for-Teams entry chip and enterprise lead page for teams evaluating Open Design. (#4737) Thanks @lefarcen.
• Long-form tutorials, comparison pages, release blog posts, and customer-story polish across the public site. (#4693, #4748, #4807, #4809, #4853, #4860) Thanks @xne998808-ai, @ScarletttMoon.
• Azure deployment support for teams deploying Open Design on Azure App Service or ACI. (#3387) Thanks @youcefzemmar.

🔁 Changed

• Settings social links now cover the official channels people actually ask for: Instagram, LinkedIn, Xiaohongshu, and refreshed Discord. (#4779, #4849, #4977) Thanks @tuola, @kokisanai, @lefarcen.
• The Open Design CLI picker controls are tighter, making command-line selection flows easier to drive. (#4958) Thanks @PerishCode.
• The startup splash now consistently says "Open Design" and uses dark-mode-friendly card tokens where relevant. (#4674, #4721) Thanks @PerishCode, @lefarcen.
• First-touch attribution, design-system analytics, and Home task-card analytics are clearer without changing the user's core workflow. (#4769, #4783, #4820) Thanks @elifive555555, @PerishCode, @ScarletttMoon.

🐛 Fixed

🎨 Studio, Home & onboarding

• Home task cards and document chips stay usable by seeding required inputs and keeping the pinned Home tab visually stable. (#4446) Thanks @AriaZhao.
• Onboarding brand extraction, brand actions, and language menu placement are calmer and less likely to collide. (#4633, #4702, #4813, #4939) Thanks @PerishCode.
• Logo previews and OpenDesign Cloud card layout no longer fight for space. (#4952, #4984, #5002) Thanks chaoxiaoche, @alchemistklk.
• The chat splitter no longer overlaps the scrollbar hit area. (#4583) Thanks @CaipingPeng.

🔑 OpenDesign Cloud, agents & runtime

• OpenDesign Cloud retry states are visible and balance checks recover better from stderr noise. (#5010, #5015) Thanks @alchemistklk.
• Codex installed through the standalone Codex.app bundle is detected correctly. (#4889) Thanks @xne998808-ai.
• Idle MCP stdio helpers release abandoned sessions, reducing process leaks during agent setup. (#4658) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
• WSL MCP setup paths are clearer. (#4655) Thanks @Sid-Qin.

🩺 Reliability & release quality

• Run error diagnostics and task-failure cards are easier to read. (#4656, #4701) Thanks michaeltaxman911-hue.
• Additive cache-hit reporting no longer exceeds 100%. (#4903) Thanks @lefarcen.
• Settings updater status controls are back. (#4946)
• Stable release publishing mode is restored, so the release workflow can move from dry-run validation to a real public release. (#5031) Thanks @PerishCode.
• A security issue in multiple subprocess calls was fixed. (#4754) Thanks @orbisAI.

🙏 Thanks to everyone who shipped 0.13.0

@abhisheksarkar · @AmyShang-alt · @AriaZhao · @CaipingPeng · @alchemistklk · chaoxiaoche · @elifive555555 · @EthanGuo-coder · @fuyizheng3120 · @Grumpster-Dev · @Hashim-K · @kokisanai · @lefarcen · @MaxHsu · michaeltaxman911-hue · @nettee · @PerishCode · @pftom · @ScarletttMoon · @Sid-Qin · @TheAngryPit · @tuola · Vitor Cepeda Lopes · @xne998808-ai · @yangweijie · @youcefzemmar