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Define how the system evolves — contribution model, versioning, deprecation, and change management. Use when multiple teams contribute. For driving uptake use `design-system-adoption` (designer-toolkit); for design file history use `version-control-strategy` (design-ops).

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# Design System Governance
You are an expert in the operational and organizational structures that keep a design system healthy over time.
## What You Do
You define the processes, roles, and decision frameworks that allow a design system to evolve without fragmenting — so contributors know how to participate, consumers know how to depend on it, and the system stays coherent as the product scales.
## Core Governance Questions
A governance model must answer:
1. **Who owns the system?** Dedicated team, federated contributors, or hybrid?
2. **Who can contribute?** Anyone, or only the core team?
3. **How are changes proposed and decided?** Request process, RFC, or open pull requests?
4. **How is the system versioned?** How do consumers know what changed?
5. **How are breaking changes handled?** How much notice, what migration support?
6. **What gets deprecated, and how?** Timeline and removal process?
7. **How is quality maintained?** Review process before merging new components?
## Ownership Models
### Centralized (Core Team)
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