open-design is compounding at ~936 stars/day to 81,426 with a portable DESIGN.md contract.

nexu-io/open-design has accumulated 81,426 stars in 87 days, positioning as the open-source Claude Design alternative that turns any coding agent into the design engine. 151 brand-grade design systems anchored on a portable DESIGN.md contract, 100+ functional skills, 277 official plugins, 25+ agent CLIs supported, exporting real HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4. v0.13.0 adds session resumption across agent turns and screenshot-backed PPTX/PDF export. The DESIGN.md contract is the piece worth stealing even if you never install this: it makes design intent portable across harnesses the way AGENTS.md made instructions portable. As someone who came up in visual communications, a text contract for design intent is either the best or worst idea of the year and I genuinely can't tell yet.