❯ Figma launches Figma Specs, a Markdown document that sets the design rules AI agents must follow

A design handbook for agentsDesign platform Figma launched Figma Specs at its first Config event in India, a Markdown editor that lets users write down a company’s design language in plain text. The document serves as a reference for teams and for Figma’s own and third-party AI agents, and can reference canvas elements and embed FigJam diagrams and code layers.

Making AI output more predictableFigma opened its on-canvas agent to more users in the past week. Because AI output is non-deterministic, the company is providing tools to steer agents toward more predictable results: teams can centralize design libraries, code libraries and guidelines, and agents follow that system. Code layers are also in open beta, letting users ask the agent to turn a design into code or change code to iterate on a prototype.

More code, not more releasesFigma chief design officer Loredana Crisan said 17 times more code is produced today than in the past, but releases are up only 1.3 times, because much of that code is written to discover what the product should be. Figma’s MCP now supports more than 20 new tools, including Grok Bot and Indian AI company Sarvam. The position design tools are competing for is the step where teams decide what to build.

▮ SIGNALOnce AI makes writing code cheap, the scarce part becomes deciding what to build, and design tools are using that to place themselves upstream in agent workflows.