How Uber Built an Agentic System to Automate Design Specs in Minutes

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This post introduces 'uSpec', an agentic system that uses AI agents and the Figma Console MCP to automate the generation of design component specifications. It addresses the enterprise-scale problem of manual, time-consuming, and error-prone spec writing by enabling AI agents to crawl Figma files, extract component data (anatomy, API, properties, color, structure, screen reader accessibility), and render complete, accurate, and consistent spec pages directly within Figma. The system emphasizes security by running entirely locally, ensuring no proprietary design data leaves Uber's network. This significantly accelerates the documentation process and improves maintainability across multiple implementation stacks.