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All dispatches →Bring your own AI
Design tools are competing to be the best canvas for whatever AI you're already using. Framer adds external agent support, Pencil doubles down on its MCP model, and Paper opens its shader library.
Read more →The canvas goes generative
Framer 3.0 ships agents on the canvas. Figma Config rolls out Code Layers and Motion. Paper Shaders goes open source. Three releases, one direction.
Read more →Paper Shaders goes open source, Toolcraft arrives
Paper opens up their shader library, Pixel Point ships a starter kit for building your own design tools, and a few more things worth knowing about.
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