Figma rolls out new features that define how agents work on its platform

Figma used its first Config event in India to announce a set of features aimed at giving agents a formal definition of how they should work inside a company's design system. According to TechCrunch, the design platform introduced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor for defining design language, brought in design and code libraries, and integrated the Payload headless content management system.

Figma Specs is meant to act as a central source of context. It can live as a standalone file inside Figma or sit directly on the canvas, and beyond plain text it lets users reference elements on the canvas and embed FigJam diagrams, code layers and designs. Teams can pull in design libraries, code libraries and guidelines so that both internal and third-party agents check their output against one shared system.

The other headline feature is code layers, which adds code to designs on the canvas for more interactive prototypes. Figma announced it in private beta back in June and is now opening it to public beta at the India event, letting more users test it out. Users can also ask the agent to turn a design into code, or change part of that code to iterate on a prototype.

On the ecosystem side, Figma said its MCP now supports more than 20 new tools, including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot and the Indian AI startup Sarvam. Payload, the open-source headless CMS Figma acquired a year ago, is being integrated with Figma Make, the product for generating dynamic websites, so teams can manage content directly.

Together these moves address the unpredictability of AI-generated work. Figma opened its on-canvas agent to a wider user base only in the past week, and because generative models are non-deterministic, the company is supplying structured specs, design systems and code layers to steer them toward more predictable outcomes.

Figma's chief design officer Loredana Crisan told TechCrunch that Figma is the place where software teams come to decide what they build and ship. She noted that 17 times more lines of code are being produced today than in the past, while releases have grown only 1.3 times, meaning much of that code is not really built to ship but built to discover what the product is.

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

The open questions now are whether documents like Specs become a de facto standard that third-party agents also follow, when code layers graduate from public beta to general availability, and how the Payload integration reshapes the path from design to a live site and its content operations.