Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTechCrunch reports that Figma has announced new features meant to define how agents work on its platform, which means the design tool is writing rules for software that does the work on your behalf.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe report also says Figma is releasing its code layers feature in open beta.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is all the summary gives us, so details on how either one works are not yet clear.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the agents get rules. Like a handbook, but for bots that never complain about the office coffee.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have watched delegations arrive in a foreign capital with no defined role.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt ends with someone being escorted out of a ballroom, and I was in that ballroom.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou were escorted out of a ballroom? That is the most viral thing you have ever told me.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt was a treaty signing, Kenji. Agents with defined duties is a treaty, and nobody enters one without reading the terms.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentReading them?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorYes. Reading them. Every word, before you press accept on anything, including a beta.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, so about the code layers beta. I already clicked accept on that one.