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baoyu-design bets Claude Design runs locally as an agent skill; 3.9k stars
baoyu-design repackages Anthropic's Claude Design as an MIT agent skill for Cursor, Claude Code and Codex; 3.9k GitHub stars by Sept 2026.
baoyu-design
What the business is
baoyu-design is an MIT-licensed agent skill that repackages Anthropic's Claude Design, the design engine behind claude.ai/design, for Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop or any file-capable coding agent: SKILL.md plus a system prompt, per-agent tool maps and built-in skills drive clarifying questions, design context, HTML deliverables and verification, and outputs land in designs/<project>/ as self-contained HTML mockups, prototypes, decks, design systems and exports.
How it started
The repository was created 2026-06-07 and is maintained by Jim Liu 宝玉, who repackaged Claude Design — the design engine behind claude.ai/design — as a portable Agent Skill so it runs on a local agent. The README states plainly that this is an independent community effort not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, and that the skill pairs best with Claude Opus 4.8. The bet is framed as freeing design from the website: no separate subscription, no upload step, plain-HTML deliverables that stay in the user's repo, and a second-pass loop where the user points at a button in the live preview instead of describing changes.
What happened
The skill grew into a full design system bench: built-in skills for hi-fi design, interactive prototypes, decks with per-element build animations, mobile and motion, web and campaign pages, data research and visualization, documents, 3D and illustration, and design-system creation and reuse. Because claude.ai/design's gen_pptx tool is not available locally, the repo ships its own CLI that renders a deck in headless Chromium via Playwright and writes native PowerPoint shapes, text and animation timing with PptxGenJS. Import skills decode Figma .fig files fully offline and lift exact values from existing HTML and CSS, and the README compares the same design prompt run in Cursor, Codex, Claude and Claude Design; a changelog and 74 commits by the 2026-09-04 crawl document ongoing iteration.
How it ended up
Still live as of 2026-09-05: the repo displayed 3.9k stars (3,888 in crawl metadata), 272 forks and 74 commits, with English and Chinese READMEs, install into 70+ agents via npx skills, and no company entity, funding or revenue disclosed in the record.
Background
baoyu-design is an open-source agent skill that repackages Claude Design, the design engine behind claude.ai/design, so it runs on a local coding agent. Repackaged and maintained by Jim Liu 宝玉 and released under MIT, it is an independent community effort with no affiliation to or endorsement from Anthropic. One npx command installs it into Cursor, Claude Code, Codex or any of the 70+ agents the skills CLI supports, and a design request is answered with clarifying questions, design context and self-contained HTML under designs/<project>/.
The bet is that the website is not the product's best home. The README's why-run-locally section argues users get most of claude.ai/design's capabilities without leaving the editor — the same methodology, craft standards and output format — and that the strongest benefit is iteration by pointing: because the deliverable is plain HTML served on localhost, the user points at a button in the live preview and the agent edits the underlying source. No website, no separate subscription, no upload step, and every artifact can be versioned, forked, exported or shipped.
The wedge is packaging the whole design process as portable files: SKILL.md orchestrates, system-prompt.md holds the craft standards, and per-agent reference docs map each environment's tools. Built-in skills cover hi-fi design, prototypes, decks, mobile, campaigns, data visualization, documents, 3D and illustration, plus starter components for device, browser, canvas, slide and chart stages. Import skills decode Figma .fig files offline and lift exact values from HTML and CSS; a local gen-pptx CLI renders decks in headless Chromium and writes native PowerPoint animations.
Traction was fast for an indie open-source project: the repository, created 2026-06-07, recorded 3.9k stars (3,888 in crawl metadata), 272 forks and 74 commits by the 2026-09-04 crawl, with English and Chinese READMEs and a changelog. The record shows no company entity, funding or revenue, so the case remains a solo-maintainer bet that local agents become the default place for AI design work.
What has to be true
- Dated traction: the repo created 2026-06-07 recorded 3.9k stars (3,888 in crawl metadata), 272 forks and 74 commits by the 2026-09-04 crawl.
- A sharp product bet: the same design engine Anthropic keeps on a website is repackaged to run locally with no subscription, no upload step and repo-owned artifacts.
- A concrete packaging wedge: portable Markdown plus scaffolds with per-agent tool maps and a local gen-pptx CLI replace the website's tools rather than reimplementing them as a new app.
- A verifiable trajectory: bilingual README, changelog, install flow via npx skills and screenshots comparing Cursor, Codex, Claude and Claude Design all remain live as of 2026-09-05.
What can be applied
A capability locked behind a website can be won by shipping it as portable files: users get the same craft standards, own their artifacts, and iterate by pointing rather than describing.
Aftermath
As of 2026-09-05 baoyu-design is live and MIT-licensed: the 2026-09-04 GitHub crawl recorded 3.9k stars (3,888 in metadata), 272 forks and 74 commits on a repository created 2026-06-07, maintained by Jim Liu 宝玉 with English and Chinese READMEs and a changelog. The skill installs via the Vercel Labs skills CLI into Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and 70+ agents, positioned as an independent repackaging of Anthropic's Claude Design. The record contains no company entity, funding, revenue or usage disclosures, so whether local design skills become a business remains unproven.
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