Orbit: How Polar’s LLM-Safe Design System Enforces Itself in CI

How Polar Built Orbit, an LLM-Safe Design System That Enforces Itself in CI How do you stop AI-generated UI code from drifting away from your design system? The team at Polar hit this problem head-on, since most of the UI code they ship today is written with an LLM in the loop. Their answer is Orbit, a design system built around one hard rule. If a value is not a design decision the team has actually made, it cannot pass CI. The mechanics are concrete. A style value outside the token set produces a type error at authoring time. A …