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Introducing our Dev Mode MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow | Figma Blog

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Today we’re announcing the beta release of the Dev Mode MCP server, which brings Figma directly into the developer workflow to help LLMs achieve design-informed code generation. Until recently, the only way to provide design context to AI tools was to feed an image of a design or an API response to a chatbot. This has changed with the recent advent of Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for how applications provide context to LLMs. We set out to apply this standard with Figma’s Dev Mode MCP server, which allows developers to bring context from Figma into agentic coding tools like Copilot in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code. Whether it’s creating new atomic components with the proper variables and stylings or building out multi-layer application flows, we believe this server will provide a more efficient and accurate design-to-code workflow. As a beta, this is only the beginning. Over the coming months, we plan to release a slew of updates, including features like remote

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