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title: "Validation loops"
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# Validation loops

A linter, validator or visual check the agent must run and fix against: the checking consumer, where the finding reaches the agent after the write. The largest technique category in the survey. The blocking consumer of the same detection is a deterministic gate.

30 validation-loop techniques catalogued

## Edges

- <- about <- AI UI/UX: how do you know the workflow actually worked?, AI UI/UX: writing a prompt that behaves like a contract, Agentic Design Systems Codebase Navigation, Claude to Figma: keeping AI-generated UI bound to your design system, Design System Doc Spec 0.20.0, Design Systems Without Figma: Our AI-Powered Code-First Approach, Design Systems for the Machines: How to Make AI Understand Your UI, Design systems need evals, Encoding Intent, Figma MCP: turning Claude-generated UI into a component library, Full validation loop in a contract-based agentic design system, Generation is not verification, Introducing Linting to your Existing Design Tokens System, Life After the Prototype, On turning opinions into constraints, Probabilistic isn’t a dirty word…, Spec-Driven UI Component Development, State of AI in Design Systems, Storybook 10.3: Component-driven development for humans and agents, Storybook 10.4: Automatic setup with agents, review filters, TanStack React, Vibe coding with zero drift: from Figma to Storybook to Production, Why Design System Governance Belongs in Code
- <- focus <- Cassie Groos, Dominic Nguyen, Jennifer Wjertzoch, Josef Richter, Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, Karl Koch, Michael Schultz, Michael Shilman, Murphy Trueman, Nathan Curtis, PJ Onori, Phong Trần, Robin Di Capua, Shuaiqi Sun, Stuart Robson, Surendar Selvaraj, TJ Pitre, Tina Singh
- <- ships <- Design System Doc Spec (DSDS), Fluent UI, Polaris, Salesforce Lightning (SLDS), Storybook

## Sources

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