Ditto | What's New

Ditto's running activity log now tracks any edits or other actions taken by a teammate's AI agent. Keep track of changes and revert back to previous versions when needed.

Here's everything new in Ditto this September.

Expanded Style Guide Analytics. Now live in every workspace: see which rules humans and agents use, what's working, and what needs attention.

It's hard to iterate on and improve a style guide when you can't see how it's used. Reference actual usage data to prove the value of your content system.

Bring data to your style guides.

Get every Ditto AI tool, out of the box. Setting up Ditto in every teammate's agent shouldn't take a checklist. That's why we built the Ditto Agent Package: one plugin installs all of Ditto's AI tools, configurable wherever you're working: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor.

You get the Ditto MCP, always-on instructions so your agent checks against your standards in every session, and two built-in commands:

• /ditto-review checks your current diff's copy against your style guide
• /ditto-audit runs the same check across a whole directory

It's the same setup for every teammate, every time.

Set up your AI toolkit in minutes.

Introducing Ditto Specs. Integrate your style guide directly with your design system, in code. With Ditto Specs, a .ditto.md file sits alongside each UI design system component in your codebase and carries the exact standards that apply to specific UI elements like CTAs, error messages, and more.

The rules are already in your agent's context, so it applies them consistently and reliably, every time. Changes to them show up in your PR diff like any other code.

Build copy guidance into your design system.

Style guide analytics now tracks agent usage alongside human usage — every time an agent pulls a rule through Ditto MCP to draft or check copy, it's counted right alongside your team's activity. And every metric you already had at the style guide level (checks, triggers, acceptance rate) is now tracked at the individual rule level too, so you can see exactly which rules are working and which ones need attention.

Live now in every Ditto workspace — log in to check it out.

We've massively expanded what you can do via the Ditto MCP, to make working alongside and inside Ditto even easier, from your AI tool of choice.

An agent connected to Ditto MCP can now:

• Create a new Ditto project
• Create, edit, and delete text items
• Create and edit your copy library
• Create, edit, and delete variants
• Search anything in your workspace — text value, language, dev ID, status, assignee, whatever you need
• Create, edit, and delete folders and text item blocks
• Run reviews and suggest edits on existing text
• Pull in existing style guide rules, or create, edit, and delete new ones
• List out all new notifications

No matter who — or who’s agent — takes one of those actions, it shows up in Ditto's running activity log. Every action tied a teammate, or a teammate’s agent.

Get started from Ditto’s developer documentation.

Add workspace & project context to improve Ditto's AI outputs: Magic Draft, Magic Edit, and Magic Translate. Adding this additional context means your Ditto AI tools can deliver even more precision, from the start.

Style guide rules take precedence over project context, which takes precedence over workspace context.

Define workspace-level context in workspace settings > AI menu. Add project-level context in the “AI context” modal of the project menu.

Use Ditto's Magic Translate to check the quality of your translated text items directly in Ditto. Catch issues earlier and streamline localization review, without leaving your workflow.

Translated text is evaluated on 5 different scales:

• accuracy
• fluency
• terminology
• locale conventions
• structural integrity

By evaluating each of these components, Ditto will provide a translation score, out of 100, for the copy in its specific context. If you've configured language-specific style guide rules, Ditto's AI score will take those rules into account, and treat them as the authority, when scoring the translation.

Send Ditto activity into your team's Slack workspace so you never miss an update.

Configure Slack notifications for edits within an individual project, or edits made to your Ditto Library. Get notifications for: Text edits, Status changes, Assignments, Comments, Linking, and Creating/Deleting.

Note: You'll need admin permissions to connect Ditto + Slack, but anyone with Editor access can turn on Slack notification for projects or for your Ditto Library.

Iterate and refine your AI content system, with built-in analytics and tools to give feedback to AI generation.

Style guide analytics surfaces usage data directly on your style guide rules. For each style guide in your Ditto workspace, you'll see:

• How many checks have run against it
• How many times it triggered a suggestion
• How many of those suggestions were accepted vs. rejected
• An overall acceptance rate percentage

This makes it possible to prove the effectiveness of the system you’ve built, while continuously sharpening it as it’s used.

Suggestion feedback lets you capture the why behind a rejection. For each suggestion Ditto generates, your team can now accept it with a thumbs up or reject it with a thumbs down along with adding a note on why. That feedback accumulates against the rule that triggered it — giving Ditto the raw material to refine guidance, update the context around a rule, or retire a rule that's no longer relevant.

Together, these features close the loop between writing down guidelines, and actually putting a content system to work.

Ditto Scan is a new CLI command that scans your codebase, identifies your user-facing strings, and sets up your content system for you — automatically, based on what's already in production.

Run a new Ditto CLI command in your codebase. Continue setup in the Ditto web app. In moments, Ditto has extracted strings, metadata, translations, and content style standards based on what made it to production. You can review these extractions to assemble a working V1 of your content system: a component library, style guides, translation management, and the metadata infrastructure to keep it all connected.

Read more about Ditto Scan here.

Ditto Specs are .ditto.md files that live in your codebase alongside your components. Each one declares the text surfaces a component renders — the specific pieces of user-facing copy like a headline, a button label, helper text, a tooltip — and carries the style guide rules that apply to those surfaces, synced from the Ditto platform.

Specs work at every level of your codebase.

• A workspace.ditto.md at the repo root sets the floor: universal voice, tone, and brand rules that apply everywhere.
• Component-level specs layer on specifics. An agent working on a deeply nested UI component references the right rules for the specific surface it's touching.

Read more about how to use Ditto Specs here.

We now support strikethrough rich text within Ditto! Add strikethrough text to a Ditto text item, along with bold, italicized, and underlined text.

A new dedicated Search page, accessible from the Ditto web app's side nav, for finding text items and library components across your whole workspace.

Search by text value, developer ID, component name, or notes and Ditto will surface related data in your Ditto workspace.

Filter results by project, status, assignee, variant, and tags, or narrow your search scope by Variants, text items, or components.

Clicking a result from the Search page will bring you straight to the matching text item or component.

Ditto will now proactively surface any time it detects a style guide violation, centralized in the new "Style Guide" tab of the Suggestions page in your Ditto plugin. Don't go hunting for errors; let Ditto find them for you, and work your way through the suggested edits in one central page.

Manage text item auto-linking from the Ditto plugin, with new linking settings.

1. "Automatically link duplicated text" - Always/Never

This new setting allows you to control "auto-linking" for copy/pasted nodes within your design file. Previously, if you duplicated a text layer in your Figma file, that new text layer would auto-link to the original one, meaning that any edits made to either would apply to both. Now, you can choose "Always" or "Never" for auto-linking functionality in your projects.

2. "Automatically link matching text layers when creating text items" - Always/Never

By default, if you select multiple unlinked Figma text layers with the same text and import them into Ditto together, those matching text layers are combined as a single text item in Ditto. With this new setting, you can choose to turn that off, instead importing each as an individual text item.

These settings can be found in the "General" tab of the main Ditto plugin settings page. They are set at a per user, per project level.

Use new performance mode in Ditto's Figma plugin when working in large design files, to decrease load times and keep the plugin running smoothly.

Whenever Ditto's plugin takes more than 3 seconds to load, it'll recommend toggling on Performance Mode to maintain faster loading times and keep you working.

Performance Mode applies on a per-project, per-user basis.