Figma宣布新功能，定义代理在其平台上的工作方式

Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform | TechCrunch

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Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform

Design platform Figma announced a new Markdown-based editor to help define a companys design, bring in design and code libraries, and integrate with the Payload headless content management system during the companys first Config event in India. Through some of these features, the company aims to provide a definition for its own and third-party agents to adhere to a brands design rules better while creating with AI.

The company debuted a new feature called Figma Specs, which is a markdown editor that lets users define their design language in a simple way. The document can serve as a reference for teams and agents while designing in Figma. Specs can exist as a standalone file in Figma or can co-exist within the canvas. Apart from acting as a text editor, users can reference other Figma elements, such as elements on the canvas, and embed FigJam diagrams, code layers, and designs.

Whats more, teams can bring in more context about design, including design libraries, code libraries, and guidelines to manage context for the design system. Agents can also refer to this centralized system to adhere to rules.

In the past week, the company made its agent on canvas available to a wider user base. However, given the non-deterministic nature of AI, the company is providing tools to steer it toward more predictable outcomes.

Figma also made its code layers feature available to users in open beta, which adds coding to designs on canvas for more interactive prototypes. The company announced this feature in private beta back in June. At its India event this week, the company is making the function available in public beta to let more users test it out. Users can also ask the agent to turn a design into code or change a part of the code to iterate on a prototype.

We see Figma as the place where software teams come to decide what they build and ship. And so for that, I think one of the key things to keep in mind about what AI has changed and what it made available is the ability to build, Figmas chief design officer Loredana Crisan told TechCrunch. There are 17-times more lines of code being produced today than in the past. But when youre looking at releases, only 1.3-times more releases. A lot of that code actually is not necessarily built to ship, but really built to discover what the product is. Its built to design.

The company said it is also supporting over 20 new tools with its MCP, including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot, and Indian AI startup Sarvam.

Last year, Figma acquired open source headless CMS Payload. Now, the company is integrating it with its Figma Make product for generating dynamic websites and directly managing content. The company said that Payloads downloads have increased sixfold in the last 12 months.

The company opened its first office in India late last year with sales, partnership, go-to-market, and product support functions. Figma said that the country is its biggest market in terms of users outside the United States. The company noted that the platform works with 40% of Indias top 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

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