Open Agent Standards Need a Portability Test
AAIF’s four October 22 additions cover procedures, model interfaces, training and execution. Product teams still need evidence that a migrated workflow behaves correctly.
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As agents take action, good UX shifts from prompting toward intent, permission, progress, interruption and recovery.
Read the analysis ↗Most AI teams treat evaluation as testing after the build. The teams that ship reliably write evals first, because an eval set is the only spec a model can actually fail.
No model reliably separates instructions from data. Agent products have to make that boundary visible, limit risky capability combinations and show where a request came from.
Software buyers increasingly ask an AI answer engine before they visit a vendor site. The rules for being cited are less mysterious than the industry suggests, and mostly about clarity.
Agent interfaces are designed for starting work. Few are designed for stopping it or taking it back, and a single undo button gives false control.
Figma has opened its canvas to agents. Skills files turn a design system from a reference document into instructions an agent reads before it edits anything.
Google I/O 2026 showed agents and prompts producing working apps. The designer's job shifts from drawing the first version to deciding what is acceptable.
A second identity earns its place when it makes a distinct customer decision easier, and can sustain the work behind that promise.
The best shared layer is often invisible: consistent interaction and accessibility, with a distinct reason to recognize each product.
A portfolio can share an audience. Each link still needs a clear reason, a visible relationship and room for the reader to say no.
A practical model for products that act on a user’s behalf.
Trust is not a tone-of-voice problem. It is an interaction architecture problem.
A reusable pattern set for uncertain, asynchronous and tool-using systems.
A practical model for sharing product behavior while keeping each brand recognizable.
The same component contract can serve different contexts without forcing a single visual identity.
A real case of linking Figma, Storybook and coding agents through explicit component rules.
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