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+> Part of the [dspack ecosystem](https://github.com/aestheticfunction) — the organization profile has the full map of how the repositories fit together.
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+> **Kind:** application (pnpm monorepo: CLI, server, watcher, Figma plugin) · **Audience:** teams keeping Figma, code, and docs aligned · **Neighbors:** reconciles against a committed [dspack](https://github.com/aestheticfunction/dspack) contract; a starting contract can be generated by [dspack-export](https://github.com/aestheticfunction/dspack-export); the generation-time half of the story lives in [dspack-studio](https://github.com/aestheticfunction/dspack-studio) ([hosted replay](https://studio.aesthetic-function.com))
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+> **Status: paused.** Aesthetic Function's reconciliation/synchronization role remains part of the long-term ecosystem vision, but active development is intentionally deferred until there is demonstrated external adoption of the [dspack](https://github.com/aestheticfunction/dspack) contract and evidence that this additional capability is needed. The ecosystem's current focus is documentation, onboarding, and contract adoption.
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 Aesthetic Function is a reconciliation engine for design systems: it continuously checks Figma, code, and documentation against one reconciled model, shows you exactly where they disagree, and writes corrections back through a single audited path.
 
 AF uses **framework analyzers** to extract intent from source code and reconcile it with design state. React/JSX supports the full reconciliation workflow. Vue 3 Single File Components are supported as a read-only framework analyzer in this first release, with source write-back intentionally gated behind a future round-trip safety spike.