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+# EUI’s Design System Governance
+
+EUI is a mature library with over 100 publicly exported components, and generally is not actively adding new components.
+
+## Process
+- If a component exists for your use case:
+  - Use it!
+- If a component exists but would require changes to work for your use case:
+  - Start a conversation with the EUI team, we may be able to help identify a solution or a workaround.
+- If you cannot find an existing component or workaround for your use case:
+  - Start a conversation with the EUI team, we may be able to help identify a solution or a workaround.
+  - If it is clear a new component does not exist:
+    - If you believe the feature would qualify as a new addition to EUI (See [What we do and don't accept](#what-we-do-and-dont-accept) below), submit a feature request.
+    - If you believe this would require a one-off, please follow the [one-off guidelines](#one-offs) below.
+
+## What we do and don’t accept
+
+**What we do accept**
+- Features that are clearly reusable
+  - New changes must have a clear case for general reuse for Elastic products. Feature requests should include specific examples, or strong evidence of potential reuse.
+- Bug fixes :D
+
+**What we don’t accept**
+- Features specific to a single use case (see [One-offs](#one-offs), below)
+- Features that carry an excessive long-term maintenance burden, relative to their usage
+- Features that are inaccessible
+
+**Open source**
+Elastic is an open-source repository, but not completely open-contribution. While we appreciate and welcome all your ideas and contributions, we cannot always guarantee we’ll accept them. Please see our [CONTRIBUTING.md](./wiki/contributing-to-eui/README.md) for more.
+
+## What a design system should and shouldn’t do
+A design system component should handle 90% of use cases. The remaining 10% may require customization through props, wrapping, or other actions.
+
+In general, our philosophy is to make our components as flexible and customizable as possible, up to the point where that flexibility explicitly enables bad or inaccessible UX.
+
+If you can’t find a component that does what you need, [start a discussion](https://github.com/elastic/eui/discussions) with us so we can help determine whether your use case is general enough to bring back to EUI, or specific enough to remain a one-off.
+
+## One-offs
+One-offs are a reality in mature design systems. If existing components do not meet your needs, it is acceptable to create a one-off component. One-offs must meet the following criteria to be considered for inclusion in EUI when its usage grows.
+- The component must match the look and feel of EUI components
+- The component follows EUI best practices, especially UX and accessibility
+- The component has undergone manual accessibility testing
+- The component has or is included in automated accessibility tests