8-agent pipeline that turns Figma designs into production-quality React design system components

Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, a designer, describes building an 8-agent pipeline that turns a Figma file into a production-ready React Menu component, one of the hardest patterns in the Intuit Design System. His first attempt aimed for full autonomy and hit a ceiling: agents could produce code that was correct but not excellent, because some decisions genuinely need human judgment. The rebuilt pipeline splits work across Understand, Build and Verify phases, with named agents like Design Analyst and Code Writer passing structured artifacts rather than shared memory, and it deliberately pauses at six points to ask a human rather than guess. Deloumeau-Prigent reports that adding these gates made the whole process faster, not slower, because decisions got made once, upfront, instead of being corrected after the fact.