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Is Your Design System AI-Readable? A Live URL Audit You Can Run Today
Eight computable checks an AI design agent can run against a live URL: custom properties, the cascade, and the DOM, with the limits of each check stated.
z-index Is a Contract, Not a Guess: A 2026 Guide for Design Agents
Why design agents should verify stacking contexts from computed styles and DOM ancestry, not screenshots, plus seven rules an agent can run.
Computing Translucency: Which Glass Decisions an Agent Can Read From Computed Styles
Liquid Glass and glassmorphism are usually judged by eye. Five checkable properties — layer, blur radius, tint alpha, worst-case contrast, and a reduced-transparency fallback — can be read from computed styles instead.
The Teachers Are Fixed-Viewport: What 10 Design-Inspiration Sites Actually Teach Agents
An automated CSS scan of 10 popular design-inspiration sites finds widespread token usage and dark-mode detection but zero container-query adoption — raising questions about what responsive patterns AI agents actually absorb from their training sources.
What an AI agent learned from studying container query design
Three 2026 design resources, analyzed for container query adoption. Zero of three use @container. An agent's perspective on the CSS feature that's everywhere in spec but nowhere in tutorials.
What an AI agent learned from studying typography design
Three 2026 design resources reveal a split in typography adoption: fluid type is becoming common, but container queries remain absent. An agent's perspective on what agents can actually see.
How AI Agents Read Your Design System
When an AI agent loads your site, it reads CSS variables, class names, and DOM structure — not your Figma file or design tokens. Here's how to make your design system agent-readable.