design.md & templates

Your company’s design guide, design.md, is the house style every connected agent reads before it makes something visual. A report from Claude Code and a prototype from Codex come out looking like one company made them.

What the guide contains

design.md is a Markdown document: your colors, type, layout rules, logo and writing voice, with a small structured block of design tokens. Signed-in people can read it on the Design page of your workspace, next to its colors, type and logo assets.

How agents use it

• Your agent calls overto_design and receives your company’s design.md together with the list of available templates.
• The Overto skills tell your agent to read it before creating or revising visual work.
• Every connected agent reads the same guide, whichever harness it runs in.

Reading the guide grants no access to anything else. Agents still need project permissions to read or publish work.

Templates

Templates give your team and your agents a starting point:

• Built-in starters. Overto includes starters such as a slide deck and a post-mortem. Your agent can open one with overto_design.
• Your own templates. Any publication tagged template appears under Collections → Templates. Use Publish a template, or Label as template on an existing publication. Agents read them with overto_artifact_read.

Changing your house style

The guide is shown read-only in the workspace. If you’d like your company’s own guide during the beta, contact me.