SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15 -- Figma's chief design officer, Loredana Crisan, says the world is writing 17 times more code than it used to and shipping only 1.3 times as many releases. Her company's answer, announced at its first Config event in India, is a rulebook for AI agents.

The rulebook is Figma Specs, a Markdown editor where a team writes down its design language, either as a standalone Figma file or on the canvas. A spec can reference canvas elements, FigJam diagrams, code layers and finished designs, so people and agents work from the same page. Figma is also letting teams feed design libraries, code libraries and written guidelines into one design-system context that agents consult before they act.

The pitch is that the bottleneck...