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title: "Component contracts"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/component-contracts.md
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# Component contracts

Treating a component API as an interface other software consumes: explicit semantics, purpose-driven naming, a stated contract rather than an appearance.

## Edges

- <- about <- A Design System That Ships Is a Contract, A2UI under the hood. Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI., AI UI/UX: writing a prompt that behaves like a contract, Agent orchestration for design systems, Analysis of Variants, Architecture, Not Documentation, Building an Agentic Design System, Claude and Figma: adding AI to a design system that already exists, Component Contracts and Schemas, Component Examples as Data, Components as Data, Context-Based Design Systems: A New Model for the AI-Driven Product Lifecycle, Convergent Deprecation: Deprecation Does Not Terminate When Your Consumer Is a Generator, Design System Doc Spec 0.20.0, Design System Documentation Community Group (proposed), Design Systems Without Figma: Our AI-Powered Code-First Approach, Design Systems for the Machines: How to Make AI Understand Your UI, Design system contracts: the component lives in neither Figma nor code, Design system documentation as structured metadata, Design systems are contracts, not libraries, Design systems as knowledge graphs, Every fork looks like adoption, Figma MCP: turning Claude-generated UI into a component library, From Pipeline to Governed Artifacts, Full validation loop in a contract-based agentic design system, Generation is not verification, How accessibility gets lost between base and product design systems, In the open: What the modal reveals, Mapping your design system for AI agents, Not tokens, Probabilistic isn’t a dirty word…, Product Primitives: The New Material of Design System, Spec-Driven UI Component Development, Specs Stop at the Component. Governance Doesn't., Storybook MCP sneak peek, The Informal Contract Is Over., What are hypertokens? The layer between tokens and components, rebuilt for agents., Your next design system user
- <- focus <- Anna E. Cook, Cassie Groos, Chase McCoy, Christine Vallaure, Cristian Morales Achiardi, Dominic Nguyen, Donnie D'Amato, Jennifer Wjertzoch, Josef Richter, Michael Schultz, Murphy Trueman, Nathan Curtis, PJ Onori, Phong Trần, Robin Di Capua, Sebastian Balderas Espinosa, Shane P Williams, Surendar Selvaraj, TJ Pitre, Tina Singh, Yesenia Perez-Cruz
- <- ships <- Design System Doc Spec (DSDS), Storybook

## Sources

- https://blog.murphytrueman.com/your-next-design-system-user/
- https://blog.murphytrueman.com/in-the-open-what-the-modal-reveals/