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Restore component mappings before the design-system release

You’re the solutions / forward deployed engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 15, 2026.

The design library is current in the canvas while generated code still follows its retired mappings.

The release needs a fast return to reliable code references without opening broad access to the customer’s development environment.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I published the new properties yesterday, and reviewers are still pasting the old ones into pull requests.”

Rita Rossi · Design Systems Engineer

Maintains the customer’s component library and is accountable for keeping design-system changes usable by product engineers.

What is at stake

Generated code still references retired component properties after the library update. You must weigh a quick configuration change against proof that customer engineers will receive current mappings.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • release speed vs. mapping confidence
  • minimum access vs. reproducible diagnosis
  • customer-specific repair vs. reusable product learning
  • AI-assisted code generation vs. human verification

Why Figma

Code Connect and MCP are where enterprise design-system decisions become inputs to customer code.

Written with these in mind

customer-facing platform engineerdesign systems engineerdeveloper experience engineer

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This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.