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Figma introduces Specs to give design agents explicit rules

A concrete example of steering AI agents with a written spec instead of hoping they infer a brand.

At its first Config event in India, Figma announced Figma Specs, a Markdown editor where a team writes down its design language so that people and AI agents, Figma's own and third-party ones, can follow the same rules. Specs can reference canvas elements, design and code libraries and FigJam diagrams. Figma also opened its code layers feature to a public beta, added support for more than 20 tools through its MCP server, and is integrating the Payload headless CMS it acquired last year into Figma Make. Figma says India is its biggest market by users outside the US.

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TechCrunchFigma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform Independent ↗

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UndertowSpecification gaming / goal misgeneralization

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

Specs give agents a written definition of a brand's design rules. Agents tend to satisfy the letter of a written rule; designs can pass every rule in the spec and still miss what the designers meant.

UndertowPrompt injection may be fundamentally impossible to eliminate

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

Specs can pull in other Figma elements, libraries and embedded content as context for agents, and Figma now supports more than 20 outside tools through MCP. Every new source an agent reads is a place where a hidden instruction can sit.

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Design system

After exploring Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform, the practice it builds on is Design system.

A framework of standards, reusable components and documentation that acts as a single source of truth for an organization's designers and developers.

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