Figma introduced a Markdown-based editor called Figma Specs at its first Config event in India, giving companies a way to spell out their design language in a single document. The editor is meant to serve as a reference for both teams and AI agents working inside the platform. Specs can live as a standalone file in Figma or sit alongside content on the canvas. Beyond plain text, users can point to Figma elements, embed FigJam diagrams, code layers and designs.
The company said teams can also pull in broader design context, including design and code libraries and guidelines that define a centralized design system. Agents can consult that system so their output follows a brand's rules. Figma has been expanding its on-canvas agent to more users, and it is offering these controls as a way to steer AI toward more predictable results, given the non-deterministic nature of the technology.
Figma also moved its code layers feature into open beta, following a private beta announced in June. The feature adds code to designs on the canvas to support more interactive prototypes. Users can ask the agent to convert a design into code or modify part of the code to iterate on a prototype.
Figma chief design officer Loredana Crisan told TechCrunch that the company sees itself as the place where software teams decide what to build and ship. She said AI has changed what is possible in building, noting that far more lines of code are produced today than in the past while the number of releases has grown much less, suggesting much of that code is written to discover a product rather than to ship it. She framed that work as design.
The company said its MCP now supports more than 20 new tools, naming Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot and the Indian AI startup Sarvam.
Figma acquired the open source headless content management system Payload last year and is now integrating it with Figma Make for generating dynamic websites and managing content directly. Figma said Payload's downloads have grown sixfold over the last 12 months.
The India event reflects Figma's push in a market it calls its largest outside the United States. The company opened its first office in India late last year, staffing it with sales, partnership, go-to-market and product support roles, and said its platform is used by 40 percent of India's top 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. For US software teams, the announcements signal that Figma wants its canvas to be the layer where brand rules are written down and enforced, whether the work is done by a person or an agent.
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