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Open Design

Stop renting slides. Ship decks and images as files you can open tomorrow.

Course 02. After Open Harness Part I: Open Design + Hermes for PPTX/HTML decks, stills (Grok Imagine), and content packs. Brand file + Kimi for structure. Video engines are Course 03, not here.

Prerequisite

Open Harness Part I done on Hermes Desktop: chat works, SOUL.md in Hermes home, and you can list and install a skill. Optional: AGENTS.md for design-lab. Gateway optional for Design labs.

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Start Part I Start Part IIVideo roadmap

At a glance

One mental model, then the path. Scroll for the full syllabus.

Rented
Chat tab
PNG lives in scroll history
Closed SaaS
Project locked to subscription
No system
Every prompt reinvents the brand

When the tab dies, the work dies.

Owned (this course)
design-lab/ folder
One tree for every artifact
PPTX / HTML / PNG
Open offline, no agent required
DESIGN.md
Brand contract the agent reloads

Success = file you can open tomorrow.

Course journey
Part I
See it differently
00 Welcome01 Stack02 Deck03 Images04 Pack

Aha: offline deck + stills + campaign folder

Part II
Own the system
05 Brand06 Models07 Skills08 Export09 Habits10 Done

Repeatable: DESIGN.md · Kimi · Imagine · handoff

Out of scope → Open Video (HyperFrames / Remotion), not this course
Design stack
Roles, do not blur them
You
Brief
Audience, claim, constraints
Taste + approve
Open files before anyone else
Hermes (already installed)
Agent loop
Tools · skills · write files
Profile + SOUL
From Open Harness Part I
Open Design
Workspace
Preview · systems · export
DESIGN.md
Brand contract on disk
Owned output
decks/
PPTX · HTML · PDF
images/
Stills + prompts-used.md
content/
Campaign pack

Two parts

Finish Part I before Part II. Motion (HyperFrames / Remotion) is Open Video, not covered here.

Part I

See it differently

Four wins in order: stack, deck, images, content pack, no brand theory yet.

A folder on disk with a real deck file, an image set, and a one-campaign content pack. You opened every file offline.

  1. 00Welcome: stop renting design
  2. 01Stack map: who does what
  3. 02First real deck
  4. 03Images for content
  5. 04One content pack
~105 min · 5 modulesStart Part I →
Part II

Own the system

Make the win repeatable: brand file, models, skills, export, habits.

Regenerate a slide from DESIGN.md alone; know Kimi vs Imagine roles; hand a zip that opens without Hermes.

  1. 05Brand file / DESIGN.md
  2. 06Models for design
  3. 07Design skills only
  4. 08Export and handoff
  5. 09Habits that keep quality
  6. 10Done: and what is not done
~120 min · 6 modulesStart Part II →

What you will ship

After Part I
  • ✓ Stack wired (OD + Hermes)
  • ✓ Deck opens offline
  • ✓ Image pack + prompts-used.md
  • ✓ One content pack folder
After Part II
  • ✓ DESIGN.md reused once
  • ✓ Kimi + Imagine roles clear
  • ✓ Motion skills off this profile
  • ✓ Handoff opens without Hermes
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