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id: jr-agentic-ds
kind: work
title: "Building an Agentic Design System"
work_kind: "essay"
date: "2026-01-01"
url: "https://josefrichter.design/blog/agentic-design-system"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/jr-agentic-ds.md
---

# Building an Agentic Design System

The defining challenge is contract disambiguation: an agent has to read, reason over and implement a component without hallucinating properties or guessing at visual states.

## Edges

- about -> Component contracts, Design tokens and DTCG, Figma Code Connect, MCP servers
- <- authored <- Josef Richter