Framer Pulls External Agents Onto the Design Canvas — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI Edit Live Sites

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Framer 3.0 (shipped June 16, and among the top-trending products again this week) introduces External Agents via the Framer CLI, letting Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI operate directly on a production website alongside in-canvas Framer Agents, plus Branching for isolated experiments and a new AI Credits pricing system. The architectural bet is that the visual canvas survives as the review surface while code agents do the work — a middle path between Figma's design-mockup boundary and pure prompt-to-site generation. Note the date: this is a month old and included as pattern context for this week's Product Hunt resurgence, not as breaking news.