Your Figma Agent Is Only as Good as Your Library's Naming

Figma's guide to putting a design system to work with its agent, published on 23 October 2026, contains one point worth acting on today. The agent reads your library the way a new hire would. Meaningful component names, defined properties and variants, applied variables and reusable patterns tell it what each asset is for. If the library is full of Frame 482 and detached instances, it will guess.

The practical steps are simple. Connect the published library through Libraries in the prompt box. @-mention the exact component or token you want swapped. Add guidelines under Library, then Manage guidelines, covering rules, exceptions, common mistakes and how to choose between similar components. Publish complete designs on an Examples page, or add _example to their names.

Figma is candid about the limits. Guidelines work best when the agent creates designs from scratch, and consistency is weaker when it edits existing designs. When it repeats a mistake, the fix is in your guidelines, library or examples, not in a longer prompt.

Our take: spend half a day renaming and tidying before you spend a week prompting. The audit skill Figma describes, which flags detached instances and hardcoded values, is the right first run. Tidy first, then automate.