open-design-v0.5.0

🎉 **`51 PRs` · `36 contributors` · ~1 day** — Open Design 0.5.0 turns the corner from "render once" to "iterate forever": **live-data dashboards** as a first-class artifact category, **Inspect mode** for per-element style tuning, an **accent-color theme system** for the launcher, **Critique Theater Phase 5**, plus a new agent (Qoder), a new image provider (Nano Banana), Linux headless mode, and a long fix queue from 16 beta cycles. 🚀

## 🔥 Highlights

- 📊 **Three new live-dashboard skills.** Generic `live-dashboard` (Notion-style team dashboard, #778), `clinic-console` template added to the existing `live-artifact` skill (#795), and template-mode `flowai-live-dashboard-template` (#801) — all targeting the 0.4.0 Live Artifacts surface so generated artifacts pull from real data instead of frozen mocks. Thanks @adityagaddhyan, @yashverma48, and @kushwahasonam.
- 🗂️ **First prompt template under the Live Artifact category.** Notion-style team dashboard under `prompt-templates/image/` — template-only, no surface or loader changes. (#799) Thanks @Joey-nexu.
- 🔬 **Inspect mode for live per-element style tuning.** Click anything in the preview to inspect and tweak its computed styles — color, spacing, type — without round-tripping through the agent. (#362) Thanks @pftom.
- 🎨 **Accent color control + launcher.** Pick the brand color you want Open Design itself to wear — global accent persists across the desktop launcher and entry view. (#683) Thanks @Feroomon2010.
- 🎭 **Critique Theater Phase 5: panel prompts + system composer.** The jury picks up its scoring rubric from a panel-level prompt template wired through the shared system composer, so critiques stay coherent across runs. (#524) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- 📤 **Project transcript export.** Daemon now writes a structured transcript to disk for downstream tools (replay, audit, sharing) — prereq for #450. (#493) Thanks @bryanatkinson.
- 🤖 **Qoder CLI agent + Nano Banana image provider.** Open Design now drives Qoder out of the box, and image projects can target the new Nano Banana provider. (#626, #631) Thanks @mamba and @zztdan.
- 🐧 **Linux headless install/start/stop.** A non-graphical lifecycle path so Open Design can run on servers and CI without a desktop session. (#686) Thanks @JheisonMB.
- 🇮🇩 **Indonesian (id) UI locale.** (#414) Thanks @aqilaziz.

> 📥 **Download:** the table below points at the final asset URLs — links go live once this PR is merged and the `release-stable` workflow finishes. Tag: `open-design-v0.5.0`.
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> | Platform | Architecture | Asset |
> |---|---|---|
> | macOS | Apple Silicon (arm64) | [open-design-0.5.0-mac-arm64.dmg](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases/download/open-design-v0.5.0/open-design-0.5.0-mac-arm64.dmg) |
> | macOS (auto-update feed) | Apple Silicon (arm64) | [open-design-0.5.0-mac-arm64.zip](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases/download/open-design-v0.5.0/open-design-0.5.0-mac-arm64.zip) |
> | Windows | x64 (unsigned) | [open-design-0.5.0-win-x64-setup.exe](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases/download/open-design-v0.5.0/open-design-0.5.0-win-x64-setup.exe) |

## ✨ What's New

### 🔬 Editing & inspection

- 🔬 **Inspect mode.** Live per-element style tuning in the HTML preview. (#362) Thanks @pftom.
- 🎨 **Accent color control + launcher.** Theme Open Design itself. (#683) Thanks @Feroomon2010.
- 🧰 **SketchEditor text prompt becomes a modal** so long prompts stop getting clipped. (#738) Thanks @pftom.
- 🧹 **Tweaks-mode tooltip noise removed.** (#697) Thanks @bojiehbj.

### 🤖 Agents & daemon

- 🤖 **Qoder CLI** agent adapter. (#626) Thanks @mamba.
- 🛣️ **Override Codex executable path.** Useful for nvm / mise / fnm-installed toolchains. (#755) Thanks @shangxinyu1.
- 🎨 **Codex image projects can use built-in imagegen.** (#622) Thanks @DehengHuang.
- 📡 **Copilot prompts delivered via stdin.** Removes another argv-too-large class of failure on Windows. (#727) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🧪 **Connection tests for execution settings.** Verify provider config without launching a chat. (#507) Thanks @monshunter.
- 📤 **Project transcript export.** (#493) Thanks @bryanatkinson.
- 🔍 **GUI-launched agents discover toolchain on minimal `PATH`.** (#614) Thanks @XinminZeng.
- 🧠 **DeepSeek v4 models in catalog.** (#722) Thanks @1119302165.
- 🐍 **Watcher ignores `.venv` and other large dirs.** Stops project file watcher from melting on Python projects. (#531) Thanks @1119302165.
- 🌐 **Portless `Origin` accepted in CORS whitelist.** Restores Chrome compatibility for some embed scenarios. (#735) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 📁 **`OD_LEGACY_DATA_DIR` migrator** moves `.od/` users into the desktop data layout cleanly. (#712) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

### 🎭 Critique Theater

- 🎯 **Phase 5: panel prompt template + system composer wiring.** (#524) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

### 🎬 Media generation

- 🍌 **Nano Banana image provider.** (#631) Thanks @zztdan.
- 🎞️ **HyperFrames video previews + provider badge + source filter.** Browsing video templates is no longer a guessing game. (#293) Thanks @pftom.
- ⏱️ **Extend OpenAI image request timeouts** so larger generations stop being killed mid-flight. (#788) Thanks @lefarcen.

### 🎨 Skills, design systems & prompt templates

- 📊 **`live-dashboard` skill — generic Live Artifact dashboard template.** (#778) Thanks @adityagaddhyan.
- 🩺 **`clinic-console` live-artifact template.** (#795) Thanks @yashverma48.
- 📈 **FlowAI live dashboard template skill.** (#801) Thanks @kushwahasonam.
- 🗂️ **Notion-style team dashboard prompt template.** (#799) Thanks @Joey-nexu.
- 📝 **`waitlist-page` skill.** (#555) Thanks @VedankVansia.
- 📱 **`social-media-dashboard` skill + Totality Festival design system.** (#678) Thanks @Tuola-waj.
- 🛰️ **Five Orbit briefing templates.** (#671) Thanks @anders-eli.
- 🧱 **Craft `form-validation` module.** Generated forms now follow modern RHF/Zod patterns instead of 2018 Formik habits. (#625) Thanks @MohamedAbdallah-14.

### 📁 Files & previews

- 📄 **Alert when PDF export popup is blocked.** (#664) Thanks @pratikrai.
- 📐 **Tighter `ws-tabs-bar` scrollbar.** Filenames stop overlapping the bar. (#781) Thanks @arunkukrety.
- 🪟 **Fix chat pane overflow.** (#740)
- 📦 **Claude Design ZIP import works on Node 24** + the file ceiling is raised. (#591) Thanks @gabriel-vaz.

### 🐧 Packaging & platforms

- 🐧 **Linux headless install / start / stop.** (#686) Thanks @JheisonMB.
- 🪟 **Improved Windows beta packaging and installer flow.** Smaller, faster, cleaner namespace handling. (#768) Thanks @PerishCode.
- ☁️ **Beta release publishing migrated to R2.** (#805) Thanks @PerishCode.
- 🪟 **Fix Windows link-code-folder dialog.** (#698) Thanks @xuncha.
- 🪟 **Consistent desktop entry chrome.** (#655) Thanks @Siri-Ray.

### 🌍 Internationalization & docs

- 🇮🇩 **Indonesian (`id`) UI locale.** (#414) Thanks @aqilaziz.
- 🇺🇦 **Ukrainian prompt template fixes** + duplicate-key cleanup. (#674, #680) Thanks @Caprika and @lefarcen.
- 🇪🇸 **Spanish README aligned to the `es-ES.ts` locale.** (#611) Thanks @israelcastro.
- 🐦 **@nexudotio X account surfaced in README + entry sidebar.** (#696) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🔗 **Fix broken pi-ai links** (404'd after the package split). (#277) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 📚 **Linux namespace env var documented in tools-pack.** (#670) Thanks @PerishCode.

## 🛡️ Stability & Reliability

- 🧩 **Design-system selection persists** in web. (#621) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🧪 **Aligned design-system default test fixture.** (#708) Thanks @marcchan.
- 🧰 **OpenCode error frames surfaced; empty-output runs treated as failed** instead of silently succeeding. (#700) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🪟 **Settings dialog scroll behavior.** (#667) Thanks @jiezhu.
- 🔠 **Wider settings subtitle.** (#747) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- 🔍 **Diagnose missing Next package** during `tools-dev` web startup. (#675) Thanks @iuliandita.
- 🧹 **Batch of small bug fixes** for #283, #275, #390. (#530) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

- 🪟 Tweaks-mode element-selector tooltip removed. (#697) Thanks @bojiehbj.
- 🪟 Chat pane overflow. (#740)
- 📐 ws-tabs-bar scrollbar. (#781) Thanks @arunkukrety.
- 📁 .venv ignored by project file watcher. (#531) Thanks @1119302165.

## 📚 Documentation

- 🇪🇸 README.es alignment to es-ES locale. (#611) Thanks @israelcastro.
- 🐦 @nexudotio X account in README + entry sidebar. (#696) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🔗 pi-ai link split fix. (#277) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 📚 Linux tools-pack namespace env doc. (#670) Thanks @PerishCode.

## 🔨 For Developers

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- 🧪 **Desktop settings + project flow e2e coverage.** (#306) Thanks @Joey-nexu.
- 📊 **Generated GitHub metrics + contributors wall refreshed** for the release window. (#718, #720)
- 🤖 **Discord `#resolved` notify when issues are closed by merged PRs.** (#685) Thanks @lefarcen.

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## ✅ System Requirements

- 🍎 **macOS** — Apple Silicon (arm64) only, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer. Intel macs are not supported.
- 🪟 **Windows** — x64, Windows 10 / 11. Installer is **unsigned** (SmartScreen will warn on first launch — choose "More info → Run anyway").
- 🐧 **Linux** — first-class **headless** lifecycle support lands in 0.5.0 (`install`, `start`, `stop` from CLI). A packaged Linux desktop GUI artifact is still deferred while the release lane is hardened.
- 🧑‍💻 **From source** — Node.js 24.x and pnpm 10.33.2+ (per `engines` in `package.json`).

## ⚠️ Known Issues

- 🪟 **Windows installer is unsigned.** SmartScreen / antivirus warnings are expected. Code signing is still follow-up work.
- 🍎 **No macOS Intel (x64) build.** Apple Silicon only.
- 🐧 **No Linux desktop GUI package in 0.5.0 stable** — use headless mode or run from source.
- 🐚 **`od` CLI shadows POSIX `od`** when installed globally. Use `/usr/bin/od` or `command od` for the system tool.

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## 🚀 Releasing this PR

This PR ships:

1. 📦 **All 13 monorepo `package.json` files bumped to `0.5.0`** (root, `apps/{web,daemon,desktop,packaged,landing-page}`, `packages/{contracts,platform,sidecar,sidecar-proto}`, `tools/{dev,pack}`, `e2e`). Internal workspace specifiers are `workspace:*`, so no lockfile change was needed.
2. 📝 **`CHANGELOG.md`** — new `[0.5.0] - 2026-05-07` entry covering the 51 merged PRs since 0.4.1, plus footnote refs for new PR numbers.

The `release-stable` workflow already lives on `main`; no infrastructure changes here. After merge, dispatch `release-stable` with `mac_signed=true` to publish.

Local verify dry-run before opening this PR:

- `pnpm install` (workspace links — lockfile already in sync)
- `pnpm --filter @open-design/contracts --filter @open-design/desktop --filter @open-design/daemon run build` (populates dist/ for downstream typecheck consumers; contracts must be rebuilt because `09eb88f` and `988fd6d` added new exported members like `providerId` / `accountId` / `ImportFolderRequest` / `ImportFolderResponse`)
- `pnpm typecheck` → exit 0 across all 13 packages

(Local Node was `22.22.0`, so pnpm printed engine warnings for the repo's `~24` requirement; matches the 0.3.0 / 0.4.1 release dry-runs.)

**Full Changelog:** https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/compare/open-design-v0.4.1...release/v0.5.0