# design.md

An early Markdown convention for declaring a project's design system to design-aware coding agents.

## Summary

`design.md` is the newest and least-settled member of the [agent-readable web standards](/wiki/agent-readable-web-standards.md) family — an alpha convention from Google Labs for declaring a project's design system (tokens, type, color, layout rules) to design-aware coding agents in plain Markdown. Where [AGENTS.md](/docs/agents-md.md) tells an agent how to *build*, `design.md` tells it how the result should *look*.

## How it fits

It extends the same operator-authored, plain-text, well-known-file pattern from engineering to design. Its governance is the least mature of the family — a single corporation, in alpha.

## Why it matters here

`design.md` shows the [agent-readable web standards](/wiki/agent-readable-web-standards.md) pattern still expanding into new domains, each a new facet of operator *control* — the defining axis of the Independent Internet.

> Part of the AP0110.ORG source library. See the [wiki overview](/wiki.md).

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*Full source text: [read the original document](/docs/design-md.md).*