Figma Rolls Out Specs Editor and Code Layers Beta at India Config

By Amara Osei

Figma has launched a Markdown-based editor called Figma Specs, debuted at the company's first Config event in India, to define a company's design language and give human teams and AI agents a shared rulebook.

Specs works as a standalone file or sits directly on the canvas. Beyond plain text, users can reference other Figma elements, embed FigJam diagrams, code layers and designs, and pull in design libraries, code libraries and guidelines to manage context for a design system. Agents can consult that centralized system to stick to the rules while generating work.

The move addresses a core AI problem: output is non-deterministic. Figma made its agent on canvas available to a wider user base in the past week, and the company is now shipping tools to steer the technology toward more predictable outcomes.

What else shipped at Config India?

Figma moved code layers, first announced in private beta in June, into public beta at the India event. The feature adds code to designs on the canvas for more interactive prototypes, and users can ask the agent to turn a design into code or edit a section of code to iterate.

Figma's chief design officer Loredana Crisan framed the bet in an interview with TechCrunch: "We see Figma as the place where software teams come to decide what they build and ship."

She pointed to a telling gap in AI-generated output. "There are 17-times more lines of code being produced today than in the past. But when you're looking at releases, only 1.3-times more releases," Crisan said. "A lot of that code actually is not necessarily built to ship, but really built to discover what the product is. It's built to design."

How is Figma opening up its ecosystem?

The company said it now supports more than 20 new tools through its MCP, including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot and Indian AI startup Sarvam.

Figma is also integrating Payload, the open-source headless CMS it acquired last year, with Figma Make, its product for generating dynamic websites and managing content directly. Payload's downloads have grown sixfold in the last 12 months, the company said.

Why India, why now?

India is Figma's biggest user market outside the United States. The company opened its first Indian office late last year, housing sales, partnership, go-to-market and product support functions.

The platform counts 40% of India's top 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange as customers, according to Figma.

The India event signals where Figma sees the next phase of growth: markets where design adoption is scaling fast, and where AI-generated code needs guardrails before it ships.