Giving AI agents design system context from the terminal: what we learned building a CLI
Earlier this year, we wrote about turning Atlassian Design System guidance into structured content that AI agents can actually use. Since then, agents have reached that content through our MCP server tools and an agent skill. We recently added a third distribution method: a command-line tool. The first question from our own engineers was a fair one: Why ship a CLI when you already have an MCP server?