---
id: atlassian-design-system
kind: project
title: "Atlassian Design System"
org_label: "Atlassian"
maturity: "ai-native"
project_kind: "design-system"
url: "https://atlassian.design/"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/atlassian-design-system.md
---

# Atlassian Design System

DESIGN.md, an 80KB token-first manifest of RFC 2119 rules over ~1000 lines of YAML tokens, plus published head-to-head evals of MCP vs skill vs DESIGN.md vs no context.

## Edges

- holds -> The agent-facing file is policy writing, and reads like a rulebook rather than documentation., Yes. Instructions tell an agent the rules; only running it says whether it followed them.
- maintained_by -> Atlassian
- ships -> Agent skills, Documentation schema, Evals for design systems, MCP servers, llms.txt and markdown twins

## Sources

- https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/insights