Skills libraries are replacing the plugin marketplace in design and work tools.

Figma now lets you author skills for its design agent directly in the product, previewing markdown files, invoking them with /, and publishing to Community, with 50+ already listed covering research, design systems, motion, audits and handoff. (Figma) MiniMax Design launched August 20 with a director program paying revenue share on Skills. Asana shipped an AI Teammates Skills library in June. Three products, identical mechanic: a portable text artifact that teaches an agent a repeatable workflow, displacing the compiled-plugin-plus-approval-queue model that design tools have used for a decade. If you distribute anything into these ecosystems, the artifact is now a markdown file, not an app.