My Beef with Agentic Design Systems

I build with agents every day. That’s exactly why this term worries me.

Let me get the disclaimer out of the way, because it matters for everything that follows. I am not an AI skeptic. I run a design systems practice that uses agents at nearly every step. I’ve built MCP servers, written about context-based workflows, and spent the better part of two years arguing that design systems need to become machine-legible or get le…