Assistants helps teams stay consistent with their design systems, by checking documents and helping you spot issues. They free you up to solve real problems, instead of wondering if a particular shade of blue in on-brand.

You can add multiple Assistants to any document — from ones that enforce your team’s design system, to others that pick up on accessibility issues or document organization.

You can create and customize Assistants using JavaScript — for you, your team, or the whole community. Start with our ready-made rules, or build something completely bespoke.

Resources:

Video tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=sYRAbi_X5Cs
Directory of available Assistants: sketch.com/extensions/assistants/
How to build your own Assistant: developer.sketch.com/assistants/
Update to Sketch 68: sketch.com/updates

We can't wait to see what you all build with this new feature.

Enjoy! 🛎

August 11, 2020 at 3:43pm

Mark Thomas McEwan@markthomas

3:43pm

I cant wait to see how many times i break my own rules !! 😅

August 14, 2020 at 10:01pm

creativejam@creativejam

10:01pm

Interesting feature, but I'd rather see some updates to Prototyping - auto-animation, more transitions (fade, flip, etc.), more ways to share a prototype (video, etc.), and device skins.

August 16, 2020 at 8:09am

Raghav@raghavv

8:09am

I will give credit, where credit is due, this is a very unique and helpful feature. especially when you are in a large team and most of them not very fond of keeping sketch tidy, i hope things will improve for ex: a single action button to do what assistant suggest :)

Edited

September 3, 2020 at 6:49am

Juan Maguid@team-sketch2react

6:49am

Great work guys, we as Team Sketch2React love this new feature as it helps TONS with getting does very important framework rules to work for you and not against you 😆💪

September 7, 2020 at 1:14pm

hillel13013@hillel13013

1:14pm

creativejam@creativejam

Interesting feature, but I'd rather see some updates to Prototyping - auto-animation, more transitions (fade, flip, etc.), more ways to share a prototype (video, etc.), and device skins.

so agree with that statement. there are huge gaps between sketch and figma (and even XD). It's disappointing to see a feature like assistant getting priority.

Juan Maguid@team-sketch2react

1:24pm

I totally don't agree with you on this

@hillel13013

(hillel13013) … So why don't just use Figma or XD for satisfying your prototyping needs? Importing Sketch files is easy enough and you have free versions available?

Assistants adds something that's new, fresh and totally different. It adds the ability for teams to really amp up their working environment. I myself have learned many important rules just using some of them and it actually makes me a better designer. 😺

1:24pm

And I say this even as I use mostly Figma in my day to day work