ReDesign Recovers Editable Layer Hierarchies From Raster Images, Scored on 909 Real Figma Files and 14,796 Replayed Edits

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ReDesign (arXiv 2607.25565, 2026-07-28, #3 trending on HuggingFace with 40 upvotes, from KAIST AI) is an agentic framework that grows an editable design-layer hierarchy by selecting and composing specialized tools across typography, vector geometry, color, grouping, and layer ordering. Its key reliability mechanism is graceful verification at each expansion — local accept, prune, or retry feedback that stops error accumulation without large-scale reruns of the long decision chain. The paper also introduces the Figma Edit Replay Benchmark: 909 raw Figma files and 14,796 controlled edit instructions replayed against reconstructed outputs, so editability is measured by whether edits actually work rather than by pixel similarity. ReDesign leads on layout, color, and text edits over layered-decomposition and serial tool-use baselines.