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Vercel's agents load vercel.com/design.md alongside a bounded stylesheet at vercel.com/geist/vercel-brand.css, so they pick from existing CSS classes and tokens (Vercel). Generating three scenarios twice, pages built with design.md had 39 mechanical failures against 91 without. The technique carrying the load is writing observable decisions like "evidence tables use full available width" rather than vague directives, plus a list of named anti-patterns. Vercel is upfront that only six pages were tested and the checks only catch previously-documented failures. Still the most concrete design-system-for-agents artifact I have seen.
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Two adapters on August 25: the Notion one lets an agent already running on Slack, Discord, GitHub, Teams or WhatsApp join comment discussions on Notion pages with no separate codebase, and the XChat one handles encryption, key management and signature verification for E2E-encr...
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