Design handoff · 5 min
Adobe XD to a coding agent: getting out of a frozen tool
XD has not been sold since 2023 and has had no new features since. This is not a handoff guide. It is about extracting what matters while the file still opens.
Guides
Getting a design out of your design tool and into your agent.
Every handoff — an MCP server, a bundle, an HTML export, a parsed file — gives an agent the geometry of one screen. None of them carries the rules of your product. One guide per tool, on what each one actually moves.
Design handoff · 6 min
Canva to a coding agent: the export path, not the MCP server
Canva has an MCP server and it is not the one you want. The route that works runs through the Connect API's HTML export — and produces something an agent has to be told how to read.
Design handoff · 6 min
Claude Design to Claude Code: the handoff bundle explained
The tightest design-to-code path shipping today, because both ends are the same model. That closeness solves the translation problem and leaves a different one untouched.
Design handoff · 6 min
Which coding agent handles design context best
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Replit and Lovable take design context through different mechanisms, in different files, with different lifetimes. A comparison of what each one can actually reach.
Design handoff · 6 min
Figma to a coding agent: what the MCP server actually sends
The Dev Mode MCP server hands your agent a component tree, variables and Code Connect mappings. Here is how to wire it up per agent, and why the output still comes back off-system.
Design handoff · 5 min
Photoshop to a coding agent: reading a PSD without Adobe
A PSD is a document of pixels with a layer tree bolted on. Parsers can read that tree without Adobe running — and knowing exactly what survives the parse is what keeps the route useful.
Design handoff · 6 min
Sketch to a coding agent: an MCP server inside the app
Sketch ships an MCP server in the Mac app that lets an agent read the layer tree, pull assets and run code against the open document. That last capability is unusual, and it changes what you can ask for.