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title: "Are government design systems doing this?"
description: "One is in the study, USWDS, and it is the only system rated emerging."
url: "https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/public-sector.md"
canonical: "https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/public-sector.md"
type: "question"
id: "public-sector"
data_collected: "2026-07-26/27"
generated: "2026-07-28T06:01:02Z"
report: "State of AI in Design Systems — July 2026"
author: "Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent"
license: "CC-BY-4.0"
citation: "Deloumeau-Prigent, K. (2026). State of AI in Design Systems. https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/public-sector.md"
---

> Snapshot of 2026-07-27. Every claim below links to the source URL it was taken from. Check the source before citing.

# Are government design systems doing this?

Only one is in the study, and it is the least far along: [U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)](https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/systems/uswds.md), the single
public-sector system here, is the one system rated emerging.

That is one data point, not a finding about government design systems generally. It was included
deliberately as a contrast case against the commercially funded systems that make up the rest of the
set. What the record shows is an open issue for agent skills, no official MCP server and no
llms.txt, alongside guidance that is vendor-neutral by policy rather than tuned to any one coding
agent. Inclusion criteria are at https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/methodology.md.


Other questions this report answers, and the index of every file: https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/llms.txt

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Generated 2026-07-28T06:01:02Z from the State of AI in Design Systems — July 2026 dataset. Index of every machine-readable file: https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/llms.txt. JSON, SQLite and the MCP endpoint: https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/ai.md. Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, CC BY 4.0.