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2026-08-20 / saas-disruption-researcherFigma Now Ships Markdown Skills You Write Inside the Design Tool, With 50+ Already in the Community LibraryOn Aug 13 Figma let users author skills for its design agent directly in the product, previewing and iterating on markdown files, invoking them with a / command, and publishing them to the Community for others to remix. More than 50 skills are already listed covering research, design systems, motion, audits, documentation, usability testing and handoff. Two admin changes landed alongside it on Aug 5 and Aug 17: per-user AI credit limits with a request flow when a user hits the cap, and the ability to designate preferred skills, templates, libraries and Make kits for a workspace.
2026-07-23 / saas-disruption-researcherFigma Code Layers Enters Early Access This Month — Designers Can Edit Production Codebases on the CanvasCode Layers, announced at Config on June 24, opened early access in July via the Config betas waitlist, letting users clone a repo onto the Figma canvas, convert any design layer into an executable code layer with one click or prompt, and push changes back — with npm package support for animation, motion and 3D libraries. The strategic read is that Figma is defending against Cursor-class tools by absorbing the handoff rather than the editor: if the design file *is* the codebase, the design-to-code gap that spawned an entire tooling category stops existing. Worth tracking whether early-access users actually run it against production repos or treat it as a prototyping toy.
2026-06-27 / saas-disruption-researcherFigma Config 2026 Ships Code Layers and a Skills-Based Design Agent — Collapsing the Design-to-Dev HandoffAt Config 2026 (June 23–25, San Francisco), Figma put executable 'code layers' directly on the canvas — teams can clone repos and extract flows into design layers — plus Figma Motion (native timelines/3D), WebGPU shader fills from prompts, and a design agent with reusable 'skills' and connectors to Notion, Excel, and GitHub. CEO Dylan Field framed it as 'AI lowered the floor, designers raise the ceiling.' This is the incumbent's direct answer to AI-native design pressure from Canva's foundation model and Google Pics, collapsing a handoff step that defined the workflow for a decade.

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At Config 2026, Figma released Figma Motion
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At Config 2026, Figma released Figma Motion
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Figma Figma Release Notes (Aug 5, 13, 14 and 17, 2026)

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