Figma used its first Config event in India to launch the tooling it wants between design teams and the agents now generating work on its platform. The centrepiece is Figma Specs, a Markdown based editor in which teams define their design language in text that can stand alone or live inside the canvas, referencing canvas elements, diagrams and code layers. Agents, Figma’s own and third party ones, are meant to consult the spec and the connected design and code libraries so their output follows brand rules instead of improvising.
The company also moved code layers, which add editable code to designs on the canvas for interactive prototypes, from private beta to public beta, and said agents can turn a design into code or revise code on request. Support for more than 20 additional tools through its MCP interface was announced, and Payload, the headless content system Figma acquired last year, is being integrated with Figma Make; Figma said Payload downloads have risen sixfold in 12 months.
The statistic Figma chose to frame the launch deserves attention. Its chief design officer said 17 times more lines of code are being produced than in the past, while releases have risen only 1.3 times, because much of the new code is exploratory rather than shippable. That gap is Figma’s market: if generation is cheap and selection is the bottleneck, the platform that owns the rules, review and system of record for design captures the value.
India is a deliberate stage for the pitch. Figma opened its first Indian office last year, calls the country its largest user market outside the United States, and says 40 percent of India’s top 100 listed companies use the platform.