Changelog

What changed in DesignAround, newest first. designaround --version shows the version on your computer.

Website · 30 October 2026

• Four guides in English and Chinese: checking a product for design patents, Amazon design-patent complaints, designing around a design patent, and drawing requirements in the US, China and the EU.
• The home page lists every feature and answers common questions. The Chinese page now describes the whole product, and the pricing page lists the design-around depths and the result guarantee.
• Every page has a Markdown version for AI assistants and agents: add index.md to the page address, or request the page with Accept: text/markdown. /llms.txt lists them, and /llms-full.txt holds every page in one file.
• Agents can discover the DesignAround Skill at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json (Agent Skills Discovery 0.2.0).
• robots.txt welcomes search engines and AI assistants on every public page and states our content signals.

Service · 30 October 2026

• Installer downloads are served from Cloudflare's cache, so they start closer to you.
• The service is checked every 5 minutes, and the account database is backed up every day, with a second copy on a separate machine.

Version 0.1.3 · 30 October 2026

Installers for macOS 13.5 or later (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows 10 and 11 (x64) and Linux x64 (.deb and .rpm) are on the download page; the CLI installs from https://designaround.elidot.com/simple/. This log starts with this version. Version 0.1.3 includes:

• Import of STL, OBJ, GLB, PLY and 3MF meshes with automatic repair, alongside STEP, IGES and BREP files and labelled product photos.
• A decision card for each case, and a risk report PDF in Chinese or English.
• Design-around runs at quick, standard or deep depth, each with a credit cap; background runs you can check, follow or stop; notifications when a long run ends.
• The result guarantee: a standard or deep run on our hosted models that ends without a qualified candidate refunds half of the credits it spent.
• Read-only share links with watermarks, expiry after 1 to 30 days, access logs and revocation, and prototype packs for factories.
• Records of filings and official notices, and a deadline calendar with .ics reminders 30, 14, 7 and 1 days ahead.
• Re-screening with a list of what changed, and case monitoring.
• Complaint and lawsuit intake, and a response pack for your attorney.
• Batch screening from a CSV file, which can resume after an interruption.
• An MCP server (stdio) with 7 tools; paid tools need a credit cap.
• The chat workbench in Chinese and English; it follows the system language by default.

Known limits in 0.1.3

• Chinese design results come with a number and title but without figures. Add the drawings by hand before comparing.
• Monitoring runs while the workbench is open or when you run designaround monitor run; there is no schedule on the server.
• Line drawings made from scanned meshes are drafts. A patent practitioner checks them before filing.
• Cases are stored on each computer. There are no shared cases or team roles yet.
• The weights and thresholds behind the risk level have not been calibrated on labelled cases yet. Use it to rank and compare designs, not as a probability.

Questions about a change: support@elidot.com.