Figma made its design tools more accessible to AI agents

Figma is launching immoderate caller updates that let AI models to straight pass with its app-building instrumentality and entree designs remotely. Figma’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server — a span that enables AI models to pat straight into the codification down prototypes and designs created utilizing Figma’s tools — has present been expanded to enactment the plan platform’s AI prompt-to-app coding tool, Figma Make.

“By utilizing a Figma Make record via an MCP client, AI models tin spot the underlying codification alternatively of a rendered prototype oregon image,” Figma’s exertion chief, Kris Rasmussen, said successful the announcement blog. “The Figma MCP server indexes the codification successful your Make record truthful you and your favourite platforms tin petition precisely what’s needed.”

In elemental terms, this means the MCP server tin amusement AI models and agents precisely however an app was built successful Figma Make, truthful it tin beryllium accurately recreated alternatively of guessing based connected the ocular design. Figma says the Make MCP server acquisition supports products from Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code starting today, and that aboriginal updates volition let third-party MCP servers to link with Figma Make.

The MCP server tin present beryllium accessed remotely from AI coding agents, browser-based models, and integrated improvement environments, making the instrumentality much accessible for developers who were antecedently tied to needing section entree to Figma’s desktop app. 

Some upcoming Figma features see a Design Snapshot diagnostic that converts Make snapshots into editable layers successful Figma Design, which is expected to motorboat this week, and an editing diagnostic that allows users to manipulate designs with AI prompts without leaving the Design instrumentality canvas, which is presently successful testing.