Release notes
Powerful AI integrations, enhancements to the dashboard, and a change to our plans.
14 April, 2026
Skylar Aieta
Product Designer
We’ve been working hard the past few months to push the envelope and improve your experience with Standards. Most notably, this release brings all new ways to integrate Standards with the other tools and workflows you use day-to-day. As AI systems become more ubiquitous, the ability to connect them between your various tools safely and securely becomes more crucial.
Today, we’re proud to announce three methods we’ve developed to let you connect your brand in standards to AI, providing more context for better results. Not only that, but we’ve made some other adjustments to our app involving the dashboard, dropdowns, and our plans.
AI Features
standards.md
For each project in Standards, you can enable the creation of an automatic, AI-generated markdown file that distills your entire brand guidelines project into a single, portable document optimized for LLMs. This file contains structured information about your brand that is purpose-built for other AI tools to read, allowing these tools to better understand what makes your brand work, and in turn deliver better results.
For more information on standards.md, see our guide.
MCP
While the standards.md is a unique AI-generated file specific to Standards, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows AI tools to connect to external data sources. When you enable MCP on a Standards project, your published guidelines become available as a live data source that AI tools can query by page — so the tool retrieves only the information it needs, when it needs it.
For more information regarding MCP, see our guide.
API
Finally, we’ve created a REST API for programmatic access to your brand guidelines — designed for data pipelines, search infrastructure, and custom integrations. As the most secure method of connecting to Standards, our API provides OAuth 2.0-protected access to your workspace, projects, styles, files, and page content. It can be used to build custom workflows, or integrate with any system that needs structured access to your guidelines.
For more information about our API, see our guide.
More new features
An all-new help center
To better support our growing community of designers, agencies, brand managers, and creative teams around the world, we’ve taken a complete pass on our help center, adding and updating many sections. As an additional part of this process, we’ve switched to a new platform that now offers AI-assisted search to make the process of browsing our documentation much easier.
Take a look and try the new search tools here.
New Dashboard Interface
As a part of our efforts to add features for AI in standards, and to support upcoming features in the future, we’ve made a host of enhancements to the dashboard interface to better prioritize information and allow for additional functionality when and where it’s helpful.
Dropdown “Open over content”
Finally, one small update to our editing experience is a new setting to allow Dropdowns to open over content on the page. Previously, the open state of a dropdown would necessarily push proceeding content down in an “accordion” style. Now it is possible to set the open state of a Dropdown to behave more like an overlay, keeping the proceeding content in place.
Change to our Plus plan
As of April 10th, we’ve ceased support for new Plus subscriptions. Existing Plus subscribers retain full access to their plan and all its features. As we continue our mission to build the best tools available to design, share, manage, and connect brand guidelines, we’ve made this decision to better prioritize and focus on delivering that promise.
We want our customers to experience the best that Standards has to offer, not be frequently told to upgrade. And yet, the low cost of plus requires high-friction incentives or other unsatisfying methods to sustain. Ultimately, we lack the ability to support this plan while still meeting our own standards or the expectations of our customers at a fair, transparent price.
For more information, see Legacy Plans.
More enhancements
- New file upload framework for enhanced security and performance
- Added description field to page elements
- Improved password security requirements
- Content editors can now upload files
- Accessibility updates
- Performance fixes
- Fixed SAML document settings issue when transferring projects
- Fixed a bug where ‘change locale’ link type wouldn’t display properly in text element links
- Fixed errors when copying pages with component dependencies between projects.
- Fixed copied pages rendering elements in the wrong order.
- Fixed editor changes applying to the wrong responsive breakpoint inside menus.
- Fixed button hover backgrounds and image selection applying to wrong state.
- Fixed publish crash when custom scripts were enabled but empty.
- Fixed uploads failing when browser couldn’t extract image dimensions.
- Failed uploads now show clear error states in the file manager.
- Fixed migration prompt persisting after project update completed.
- Projects without secure embed enabled can no longer be iframed.
Get in touch
If you have any feedback, questions about this update, or have ideas for what we should work on next, please let us know by emailing [email protected]