open-design-explore

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3Explore several deliberately different design directions with Open Design, compare them side by side, and take the chosen one forward.
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5Brief: "$ARGUMENTS" — or, if that is empty, the user's request in this conversation (if it isn't clear, ask the user: "What should we explore directions for?")
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7**How to talk to the user.** Many people using Open Design don't write code, so:
8- Use the user's own words. If they say "artifact", "design tokens" or give a file path, use those terms back; otherwise use the plain words below.
9- Keep the machinery out of replies: no tool names, no ids like `od:prototype:poster-hero`, no internal files (`.artifact.json`, `.comments.json`, `config.json`), and not the words "register", "manifest", "sidecar", "entry" or "surface", unless the user used them first.
10- Explain a print term the first time it comes up, in one short clause, and not again.
11- Say where a file is the way the user would find it ("in your Open Design folder, under seed-swap-flyer"). Give a raw path only where the user can click it (Claude Code, Claude Desktop's Code tab, VS Code) or asks for it.
12- End each reply that finishes a step with one line on what they can do next, with at most two options ("Want it in Instagram sizes too, or is it ready to print?").
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14| Instead of | Say |
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16| artifact, entry, registered | your design, saved |
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