AutoDesign: Agentic tool builds poster, slides, and video from a...

AutoDesign: Agentic tool builds poster, slides, and video from a scientific paper PDF

The Yaxin9Luo team has released AutoDesign (MIT license, first public release on August 14, 2026) — an agentic design tool that generates an editable HTML poster, a 24-slide presentation, a research web page, and a 6-minute 1080p video with voiceover and synchronized subtitles from a scientific paper PDF.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-08-16Updated 2026-09-18

2026-08-16 Coding Anthropic

🎬 AutoDesign: From paper PDF to poster, slides, and video

The Yaxin9Luo team has released AutoDesign (MIT, release on August 14, 2026) — an agentic design tool: from a scientific paper PDF it builds an HTML poster, a 24-slide presentation, a web page, and a 6-minute 1080p video with voice and subtitles.

🌍 The key idea is meta-harness optimization: the model is not optimized, but the DesignHarness wrapper (prompts, tools, orchestration). On PosterBench, the Claude Code + Claude 4.8 combination scored 78.32 — higher than Claude Design and OpenDesign; a blind study showed 64% preference. However, the benchmark was created by the authors themselves, so the comparison is not fully independent.

👤 It can be installed with a single command (requires Node.js 22+ and ffmpeg) or run in the browser at designanything.ai. The cost of a poster ranges from $0.27 to $10.02 depending on the model.

Source 1: https://github.com/Yaxin9Luo/AutoDesign

Source 2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13560

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