Figma MCP server

This MCP server for Figma provides a bridge between Figma's API and AI assistants like Claude, allowing you to access and manipulate Figma files, comments, and design components directly through the Model Context Protocol.

Installation Options

You can install the MCP-Figma server either globally or as a project dependency:

# Install globally
npm install -g mcp-figma

# Or install locally in a project
npm install mcp-figma

# Update to latest version
npm update -g mcp-figma

Setting Up with Claude

Configuration

Add mcp-figma to your Claude configuration:

"mcp-figma": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "mcp-figma"
  ]
}

API Key Setup

When using Claude with the MCP-Figma server for the first time, you'll need to set your Figma API key:

Please use mcp-figma to set my Figma API key: figd_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Your API key will be stored securely in ~/.mcp-figma/config.json and automatically loaded in future sessions.

Verifying Configuration

You can check if your API key is properly configured with:

Please use mcp-figma to check my API key status

Using Figma Tools

Once configured, you can access Figma's functionality with commands like:

Please use mcp-figma to get the file with key abc123

Available Tools

The server provides access to numerous Figma API functions:

Authentication

• set_api_key: Configure your Figma personal access token
• check_api_key: Verify API key configuration status

File Operations

• get_file: Retrieve a Figma file using its key
• get_file_nodes: Extract specific nodes from a Figma file
• get_image: Get images for nodes in a file
• get_image_fills: Get URLs for images used in a file

Comments

• get_comments: View comments on a Figma file
• post_comment: Add a new comment to a file
• delete_comment: Remove a comment from a file

Team & Project Management

• get_team_projects: List projects for a team
• get_project_files: View files within a project

Components & Styles

• get_team_components: Access components for a team
• get_file_components: Get components from a specific file
• get_component: Retrieve a component by its key
• get_team_component_sets: Get component sets for a team
• get_team_styles: Access styles for a team
• get_file_styles: Get styles from a specific file
• get_style: Retrieve a style by its key

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "mcp-figma" '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","mcp-figma"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-figma": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-figma"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-figma": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-figma"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect