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YOUR DESIGN SYSTEM'S NEWEST AUTHOR IS AN AGENT

blog.murphytrueman.com8 min read

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Design system agents have shifted from passive readers to active authors, and the pace of that change has outrun existing review models. Through tools like Figma's MCP and Storybook 10.3, agents now modify canvases, edit tokens, write documentation, and author their own instruction files. Teams best positioned treat tokens as versioned APIs, write purpose-driven component descriptions, and assign clear ownership to reviewing agent-generated changes.