Figma expands MCP support

At its first Config conference in India, Figma announced twenty new model context protocol partners including ClickUp, Linear, Notion, Mistral and others.

Field questions Anthropic's approach

Dylan Field, Figma co-founder, criticised Anthropic for not exposing its own resources via MCP, calling this asymmetric context sharing that the debate ignores.

“I find it interesting that Anthropic do not expose artifacts / other cloud resources created via MCP.”

MCP is imperfect, Field says

Field told media that while Figma wants to be open, MCP is not a perfect protocol and has tons of room for improvement.

“MCP is not a perfect protocol. And I think that it is something that has tons of room for improvement.”

Protocol favours frontier labs

Field explained that MCP is advantaged more to frontier labs, though he understands users want a protocol to access their Figma data.

Figma limits data exposure

Figma's CEO said the company doesn't want to be fully open because exposing more data through MCP increases the chance of abuse.

Balancing openness and safety

While most users don't intend malicious use, Figma still has to think about potential risks when deciding what data to expose through MCP.