{"slug": "figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform", "title": "Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform", "summary": "Figma announced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor for defining design language, at its first Config event in India, alongside public beta availability for its code layers feature and MCP support for over 20 new tools including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot, and Indian AI startup Sarvam. Figma chief design officer Loredana Crisan said 17-times more lines of code are produced today than in the past while releases have grown only 1.3-times, framing Figma as where software teams decide what to build and ship. Figma also integrated its Payload headless CMS, acquired last year, with Figma Make for generating dynamic websites, and said Payload downloads rose sixfold in the last 12 months.", "body_md": "Design platform Figma announced a new Markdown-based editor to help define a company’s design, bring in design and code libraries, and integrate with the Payload headless content management system during the company’s 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 brand’s design rules better while creating with AI.\n\nThe 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.\n\nWhat’s 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.\n\nIn 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 towards more predictable outcomes.\n\nFigma also made its code layers feature, which adds coding to designs on canvas for more interactive prototypes. The company [announced this feature](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/figma-adds-code-layers-support-for-animations-more-ai-features-in-new-update/) 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.\n\n“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,” Figma’s chief design officer Loredana Crisan told TechCrunch. “There are 17-times more lines of code being produced today than in the past. But when you’re 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. It’s built to design.”\n\nThe company said it is also supporting over 20 new tools with its MCP, including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot, and Indian AI startup Sarvam.\n\nLast year, Figma acquired [open-source headless CMS Payload](https://www.figma.com/blog/payload-joins-figma/). Now, the company is integrating it with its Figma Make product for generating dynamic websites and directly managing content. The company said that Payload’s downloads have increased sixfold in the last 12 months. \n\nThe company opened its [first office in India late last year with sales](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/figma-bets-on-india-to-expand-beyond-design/), 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 India’s top 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform/", "published_at": "2026-10-15 04:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 05:56:41.608691+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "agent-protocols", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Figma", "Figma Specs", "Payload", "Figma Make", "Loredana Crisan", "Sarvam", "Grok Bot", "Open Code"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/figma-announces-new-features-to-define-how-agents-work-on-its-platform.jsonld"}}