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id: context-based-revisited
kind: work
title: "Context-Based Design Systems, Revisited"
work_kind: "essay"
date: "2026-05-12"
url: "https://southleft.com/insights/design-systems/context-based-design-systems-revisited/"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/context-based-revisited.md
---

# Context-Based Design Systems, Revisited

The orchestrator is not the reviewer at the gate. The orchestrator is the one driving.

## Edges

- about -> Agentic governance, Context engineering, Designers shipping code
- <- authored <- TJ Pitre