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Design systems are becoming the interface agents must obey

LukeW argues design systems must become active steering layers embedded in agent prompts rather than passive documentation, while Figma's own Weave and Motion releases show the same logic applied to campaign generation and animation consistency. If your system is just documentation, agents will drift from it; if it's encoded as rules and tokens, agents enforce it automatically.

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Design systems become steering layers for AI agents writing your code

You can start treating the design system you maintain as executable instructions for agents rather than reference material nobody reads before shipping.

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Open LukeW's piece on design systems for AI agents and sketch one rule from your own system as a prompt instruction, not a doc page.

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