open-design-v0.7.0

🎉 **`107 PRs` · `49 contributors` · 3 days** — A memory-plus-UI release: **auto-memory store** carries agent context across runs and projects, **Critique Theater advances to Phase 7** (state machine + replay) with daemon-side **Phase 6.2** artifact extraction, **HyperFrames** lands **HTML-in-Canvas** end-to-end, and the web UI gets a **top-to-bottom Designs tab redesign**, **in-context preview comments**, a **unified Media tab**, and a **tweaks palette with HSL hue-shift recoloring**. Plus **responsive design handoff** outputs, **install/uninstall skills & design systems in-app**, **HTTP 206 range requests** for video/audio, **scheduled routines**, **macOS Intel (x64)** builds, an official **Nix flake**, four new design systems (hud, loom, trading-terminal, WeChat), and an `agent-browser` skill. 🚀

## 🔥 Highlights

- 🧠 **Auto-memory store.** Tired of re-explaining your brand voice, audience, and constraints every new conversation? Open Design now remembers — agent context carries across runs and projects, same idea as the global memory inside Claude Code but glued to your design project. (#999) Thanks @pftom.
- 🎭 **Critique Theater Phase 7 + 6.2.** Stop losing your critique to a laptop sleep — the panel survives a refresh, replays cleanly, reconnects mid-run. Jury-tagged artifacts now ship as real project assets instead of just panel chatter. (#1307, #1085) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- 🎨 **Designs tab redesign.** The tab you open every day now has covers, tags, an overflow menu, and multi-select — finding the right artifact stops being a hunt through a long list. (#1161) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 💬 **In-context preview comments.** Drop comments directly on the artifact preview without leaving the workspace — feedback lives where the design lives, not in a separate thread. (#1276) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 🖼️ **HyperFrames HTML-in-Canvas.** Storyboards stop being frozen mockups — embed real interactive HTML inside canvas templates and it renders end-to-end across web and skills. No more "imagine this is clickable." (#866) Thanks @pftom.
- 🎬 **Unified Media tab.** Image, video, and audio entries consolidate into one tab — no more bouncing between three near-identical surfaces. (#1167) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 🎨 **Tweaks palette with HSL hue-shift recoloring.** Recolor a brand swatch right from the palette popover — drag the hue / saturation / lightness slider and see the canvas update inline. (#1292) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 📥 **In-app install for skills & design systems.** Stop cloning the repo to try a new aesthetic — one click and it's there. Uninstall is just as easy. (#1003) Thanks @encyc.
- 🎞️ **HTTP 206 range requests for video / audio.** Preview a 500MB video without waiting for a 500MB download — seek anywhere instantly, no full-file pre-load. (#1105) Thanks @ak91456.
- 📅 **Scheduled routines.** Stop babysitting recurring work — schedule routines like "every weekday 9am, regenerate the metrics dashboard" and walk away. Unattended agent runs, set and forget. (#1033) Thanks @pftom.
- 🖥️ **macOS Intel build + Nix flake.** Intel Macs are back — no more "sorry, Apple Silicon only," DMG ships again. Nix/NixOS users install via the official `flake.nix` with first-class home-manager support. (#759, #402) Thanks @ggzeng and @GodTamIt.
- ⌨️ **`Cmd/Ctrl+,` opens Settings.** The shortcut your fingers already wanted — Settings now respect the platform shortcut convention with a proper badge in the menu. (#1173) Thanks @mrdiin.

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## ✨ What's New

### 🎭 Critique Theater

- **Phase 7 web client state machine.** Reducer + `useCritiqueStream`/`useCritiqueReplay` hooks for clean replays and mid-run reconnects. (#1307) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- **Phase 6.2 daemon artifact extraction + endpoint.** Critique-tagged artifacts are extracted server-side and served from a dedicated endpoint. (#1085) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.

### 🖥️ Web & desktop UI

- 🎨 **Designs tab redesign.** Covers, tags, overflow menu, multi-select. (#1161) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 💬 **In-context comment thread on the artifact preview.** (#1276) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 🎬 **Unified Media tab** — Image / Video / Audio in one place. (#1167) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 🎨 **Tweaks palette popover with HSL hue-shift recoloring.** (#1292) Thanks @qiongyu1999.
- 📐 **Responsive preview + design handoff outputs** — tablet/mobile auto-fit, 2025–2026 viewport matrix, screen-file-first export, DESIGN-HANDOFF / DESIGN-MANIFEST exports. (#1224) Thanks @huyhoangnhh98.
- 👍 **Thumbs-up / thumbs-down feedback widget** under completed assistant turns. (#1308) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- ⌨️ **`Cmd/Ctrl+,` opens Settings** with a platform shortcut badge. (#1173) Thanks @mrdiin.
- 🏁 **Finalize design package + Continue in CLI buttons.** (#974) Thanks @bankielewicz.
- 🔄 **Fetch models button for BYOK providers.** (#1034) Thanks @Demoniooo.
- 🔠 Provider-model fetch results sorted alphabetically. (#1097) Thanks @Demoniooo.
- 📋 **Collapsible MCP JSON field-mapping helper.** (#1136) Thanks @Priyanshudotdev.
- 📜 Question forms scroll to top of viewport instead of pinning to the bottom. (#1044) Thanks @paulstean.
- 📏 Sidebar tabs flush to the workspace edge with internal scrolling. (#1038) Thanks @coder-zkl1988.
- ✏️ Design file rename support. (#894) Thanks @CIoudherd.

### 🤖 Agents & runtime

- **Auto-memory store with chat-protocol-aware extraction.** (#999) Thanks @pftom.
- **Install / uninstall for skills & design systems** from the desktop app. (#1003) Thanks @encyc.
- **HTTP 206 range request support for video / audio files** (closes #784). (#1105) Thanks @ak91456.
- **Scheduled routines for unattended agent runs.** (#1033) Thanks @pftom.
- 🛡️ Guard rails against agent-emitted stub artifact regressions. (#1171) Thanks @sebastianwestberg.
- 🚫 Reject filesystem root folder imports. (#1266) Thanks @donglrd.
- 🧹 Agent runtime + route registration split into focused modules (internal refactor). (#1063, #1043) Thanks @nettee.

### 🖼️ HyperFrames

- **HTML-in-Canvas lands across web + skills.** Embed live HTML inside canvas templates and it renders for real, end-to-end. (#866) Thanks @pftom.

### 🎨 Skills, design systems & templates

- 🪞 **Skill model refactor.** Code-driven skills cleanly separated from design-template assets, plus a new `finalize-design` API — contributing a new skill is half the work it was. (#955) Thanks @pftom.
- 🌐 **Reliable `agent-browser` skill.** (#1284) Thanks @alchemistklk.
- 💬 **WeChat design system + `login-flow` skill** (also fixes API-mode `tool_calls` bug). (#1083) Thanks @zxc000166.
- 📊 **Three new design systems: `hud`, `loom`, `trading-terminal`** with locale coverage. (#1069) Thanks @Ayush-Mahadik.
- 📝 **`release-notes-one-pager` skill** with supporting docs. (#873) Thanks @elefinnt.
- 🪙 **Structured `tokens.css` schema for design systems** (`default` + `kami`). (#1231) Thanks @zoeforfun.
- 🗂️ Smarter design files grouping. (#1082) Thanks @Romantin.
- 🕰️ Replace time-specific Orbit greetings with neutral defaults. (#1291) Thanks @Leesin0222.

### 📦 Packaging & distribution

- 🍎 **macOS Intel (x64) build support** in release workflows. (#759) Thanks @ggzeng.
- ❄️ **Official Nix flake** with home-manager and NixOS support. (#402) Thanks @GodTamIt.
- ⚡ Beta release packaging cache optimizations. (#1095) Thanks @PerishCode.

### 🌍 Internationalization & docs

- 🇹🇼 **Traditional Chinese QUICKSTART** + Chinese doc link fixes. (#753) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.

### ⚙️ Settings & onboarding

- 🪧 Install onboarding links for unavailable local CLIs. (#985) Thanks @mecxist.

## 🛡️ Stability & Reliability

- 🔒 Conversation run isolation enforced — concurrent runs no longer cross-contaminate state. (#1271) Thanks @nettee.
- 🌐 Default English resource i18n fallback so missing translations don't break agent prompts. (#1270) Thanks @nettee.
- 🩹 `[codex]` Claude Code exit diagnostics improved. (#1267) Thanks @alchemistklk.
- 🩹 `[codex]` empty API responses handled as no output (not as errors). (#1244) Thanks @alchemistklk.
- 🛣️ Codex CLI path fallback UX improvements. (#1205) Thanks @shangxinyu1.
- 🧠 Use ACP config options for model selection. (#1208) Thanks @krishnashakula.
- 📡 Remove OpenCode stdin dash sentinel. (#1365) Thanks @PerishCode.
- 💾 Persist `runStatus` / `endedAt` on chat run termination. (#1230) Thanks @PerishCode.
- 🔀 Prefer `opencode-cli` over `opencode` binary. (#818) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 💳 OpenCode Write tool displays as card, not raw JSON. (#1126) Thanks @1119302165.
- 🔐 Pin API-mode override above discovery layer. (#1207) Thanks @mutoe.
- 🪟 Windows silent reinstall closes the running app first. (#1238) Thanks @PerishCode.
- 🧰 Build desktop before packaged typecheck. (#1093) Thanks @mrcfps.

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

### Web

- 🌑 Restore custom dropdown chevron for the timezone selector in dark mode. (#1368) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
- 🎨 Polish EntryView — sidebar layout, folder tabs, slim form, blue selected token. (#1360) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 🌐 Design Files refresh strings now translate. (#1300) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- 📜 JSON file previews pretty-print. (#1206) Thanks @Kaelz31.
- 🎯 Tweaks selection stays usable without annotations. (#1268) Thanks @PerishCode.
- 🎨 Sketch JSON files render their static preview. (#1060) Thanks @Derrick-xn.
- 🏷️ `<artifact>` tags inside code spans / fences stop being treated as real artifacts. (#1132) Thanks @mutoe.
- 🔄 Home projects refresh after a conversation is deleted. (#1219) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- ✅ Finished tool calls actually finish. (#1240) Thanks @nettee.
- 🛡️ Prose-as-HTML artifacts blocked before they hit disk. (#1144) Thanks @mutoe.
- 🐾 Entry footer pet labels truncate cleanly. (#1150) Thanks @lefarcen.
- 🔐 Connector auth errors surface; silent popup closes caught. (#1128) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- ❌ MCP picker dialog close button centered. (#1137) Thanks @zhujie007.
- 💬 Chat messages stop overflowing into the workspace pane. (#1104) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.
- 📝 New conversation creation guarded against accidental empty chats. (#1086) Thanks @zhujie007.
- 👁️ Examples preview dispatches on `od.preview.type` for correct routing. (#1001) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- ⬆️ Settings content scrolls back to top on section change. (#997) Thanks @Nagendhra-web.
- 💭 Pod-to-chat comments wrap text instead of truncating. (#1156) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.
- 🇨🇳 MCP server settings panel localized for the Chinese UI. (#760) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.
- 🎬 Media config restored from daemon on startup. (#687) Thanks @zztdandan.
- 💾 Autosave indicator suppressed for draft-only Connector key edits. (#1232) Thanks @Eggwardhan.
- 🔗 Example preview iframe sandbox handles links correctly. (#701) Thanks @meshackm.
- 🖨️ Popup-blocked PDF export falls back to native Electron print dialog. (#973) Thanks @PratikRai0101.
- 🇨🇳 Comments panel UI translated into Chinese. (#1139) Thanks @zhujie007.
- 🫥 Surface filter tabs with zero count hide themselves. (#965) Thanks @nmsn.
- 🎯 Design system filter popover stops shifting position on reopen. (#960) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.

### Desktop

- 🍎 macOS close exits fullscreen first before hiding. (#1249) Thanks @PerishCode.
- 📏 Main client window enforces a minimum size. (#1203) Thanks @Sid-Qin.
- 📄 `about:blank` popups allowed for PDF export fallback. (#1081) Thanks @hitken.
- 🪟 Daemon's external-browser opener fixed on Windows. (#953) Thanks @Sapientropic.

### Misc

- 🧹 Stale upload failure banner clears on fresh preview. (#797) Thanks @mvanhorn.
- 🐾 Trump pet removed from bundled community pets. (#1103) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
- 🤐 Artifact-handoff prompt gains a "when NOT to emit" guardrail. (#1145) Thanks @mutoe.
- 📝 Pending prompt clears properly between template invocations. (#1148) Thanks @imzihuailin.
- ❄️ `nix run` writes to a sensible default `OD_DATA_DIR`. (#1159) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
- 🔍 Landing page SEO: correct canonical, `robots.txt`, favicons. (#1061) Thanks @joeylee12629-star.
- 🧱 Modal footer top padding increased. (#957) Thanks @xxiaoxiong.
- 🎯 Project type selector arrows stop overlapping the tabs. (#1091) Thanks @zhujie007.

## 📚 Documentation

- 🇹🇼 **Traditional Chinese QUICKSTART** — Taiwan/HK/Macau users get a proper getting-started doc. (#753) Thanks @YUHAO-corn.

## 🔨 For Developers

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- 🧪 Stabilize extended Playwright coverage. (#1341)
- 🧪 Nightly UI + desktop regression coverage expanded. (#1256)
- 🧪 e2e smoke + release reports hardened. (#1140)
- 🧪 Entry + settings automation coverage expanded. (#954)
- 📊 Generated GitHub metrics SVG + contributors wall refreshed. (#1115, #1117, #1183, #1188, #1328, #1330)

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## ✅ System Requirements

- 🍎 **macOS** — Apple Silicon (arm64) **and Intel (x64) 🆕**, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer.
- 🪟 **Windows** — x64, Windows 10 / 11. Installer is **unsigned** (SmartScreen warns on first launch — choose "More info → Run anyway").
- 🐧 **Linux** — headless lifecycle support (`install` / `start` / `stop` from CLI). Packaged GUI artifact deferred while the release lane is hardened.
- ❄️ **Nix** — official flake at `flake.nix` with home-manager and NixOS support.
- 🧑‍💻 **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 expected on first launch. Code signing still follow-up work.
- 🐧 **No Linux desktop GUI package in 0.7.0 stable** — use headless mode, the Nix flake, 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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**Full Changelog:** https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/compare/open-design-v0.6.0...release/v0.7.0