Design that machines can read.
AI-Native Design Framework — a specification for design systems an AI agent can discover, reason about, generate, and validate, without leaving humans behind.
Not a code library — a spec and a site. The standard is described as articles and examples; concrete design systems are implementations that declare conformance.
The thesis
AI-Native = a design system expressed as a graph of machine-readable contracts, derived from a single source, and enforced automatically.
The contract graph — four edges
| Edge | From → To | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| Token applicability | semantic token → property | tokens |
| Slot content | slot → layer / contract | slots |
| Modifier applicability | modifier → component / property | applicability |
| Preset / Pattern | composition → components + slots | presets · patterns |
Composition stack
prompt → skill → pattern → preset → component