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For Team Accounts using Figma Make, allow admin configuration for default Guidelines.md in new projects

  • January 28, 2026
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ACSean

We’ve come to a point where our team is using Figma Make, we want the ability to add a default (maybe prepend to?) Guidelines.md that we can configure at the team admin level. 

This would allow us to setup specific style and background information in a standardized fashion across all projects by our team.

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Hellen charless

This would be a really useful addition 👍

Having a configurable, team-level default Guidelines.md (or even a prepend option) would solve a lot of consistency issues for us. Right now, every project ends up re-documenting the same style rules, brand context, and constraints, which is both time-consuming and easy to get wrong.

If this were managed at the team admin level, it would:

  • Ensure consistent design and implementation standards across all projects

  • Reduce onboarding time for new team members

  • Prevent important context (brand voice, accessibility rules, layout conventions, etc.) from being missed

  • Still allow project-specific overrides when needed

Even a simple “auto-insert on project creation” or “always prepend” option would go a long way. This feels like a natural fit for teams using Figma Make at scale.

Hope this is something the team considers it would add real value for collaborative workflows.


ACSean
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  • January 28, 2026

Exactly.  Our current workflow is having a standard markdown guildelines.md configured in a central location (github, our project management software, etc), and telling team members they need to manually input it when creating a project. 

That’s not tenable as our team expands (or other departments start using Figma Make), and people inevitably forget the mandated starting point; which either results in lost time since they started off on the wrong path, or needing to seriously overhaul the resulting full project, thus burning more AI credits or dev time.