Config 2026: Staying Intentional With Design Agents

Figma's Config 2026 talk on agentic workflows was refreshingly honest: more output doesn't remove uncertainty. The actual skill, they argued, is curating context for an agent — not handing it the wheel.

At Config 2026, Figma's team talked candidly about the uncertainty agentic tools create even as they let you 'produce more than ever.' Their design agent now works directly on the canvas and in FigJam, using shared context — like tokens and typography rules — to stay consistent. But the presenters were explicit that being intentional about what context you give an agent, and tending your own thinking alongside it, is the real work. It's a useful corrective to the 'just prompt it' narrative: the method here is curating context, not abdicating judgement. This is days-old official commentary on a brand-new workflow, not settled best practice, so treat it as a live experiment worth trying rather than a rulebook.

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