Figma announces Specs and public beta of code layers to guide agents

Figma announced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor for defining a brand’s visual language and bringing together design and code libraries, guidelines, canvas elements, and FigJam diagrams. The document can stand alone or exist within the canvas, serving as a reference for teams and first- or third-party agents to follow design rules when creating with AI.

The company also made code layers available in public beta, allowing users to add code to designs for interactive prototypes and ask the agent to turn designs into code or modify existing code. Figma said its MCP now supports more than 20 tools, including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot, and Sarvam. Payload, the headless CMS acquired by the company last year, will be integrated with Figma Make to generate dynamic websites and manage content directly; Figma said Payload downloads increased sixfold over the past 12 months.