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title: "Agentic governance"
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# Agentic governance

What rejects an agent's output, and who decided the rule it is rejected against. The accountability question, kept separate from the capability one.

## Edges

- <- about <- A Design System That Ships Is a Contract, AI Design Systems Conference 2026, AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them., AI Just Turns the Lights On: TJ Pitre on Design Systems and AI, Agentic Design Systems, Agentic Design Systems in 2026 with Brad Frost, Claude and Figma: adding AI to a design system that already exists, Context-Based Design Systems, Revisited, Convergent Deprecation: Deprecation Does Not Terminate When Your Consumer Is a Generator, Conway's Law, Design System Office Hours, Design Systems That Document AI, Design Systems Without Figma: Our AI-Powered Code-First Approach, Design systems are contracts, not libraries, Designing the Learning Loop: Context, AI, and Compound Systems, Encoding Intent, Encoding governance on agentic design systems, Full validation loop in a contract-based agentic design system, Governing Accessible Design Systems in the AI Era, My beef with agentic design systems, Specs Stop at the Component. Governance Doesn't., Structural Workbook for AI + Accessible Design Systems, The Design System Was Fine Until the Agents Moved In, The agent wrote its own tool. On the BEAM, it gets to keep it., The human layer in agentic design systems, The parts of your system you never wrote down, Towards an agentic design system, What building agentic systems taught me, Why Design System Governance Belongs in Code, Your design system's newest author is an agent
- <- focus <- Andressa Lombardo, Anna E. Cook, Ben Callahan, Brad Frost, Chris Strahl, Cristian Morales Achiardi, Dave Brown, Davy Fung, Donnie D'Amato, Josef Richter, Michael Schultz, Murphy Trueman, PJ Onori, Phong Trần, Robin Di Capua, Romina Kavcic, Sebastian Balderas Espinosa, Shane P Williams, Sil Bormüller, Surendar Selvaraj, TJ Pitre
- <- ships <- Into Design Systems, Knapsack, Patterns Podcast, The Question
- <- within <- The agent proposes; the human reviews at the gate., The person sets the constraints; the agent executes inside them. The orchestrator is the one driving.

## Sources

- https://southleft.substack.com/p/my-beef-with-agentic-design-systems
- https://www.designsystemscollective.com/encoding-governance-on-agentic-design-systems-1a8c70420fec