Figma adds MCP partners as co-founder calls the protocol imperfect
Original title: Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
Dylan Field said wider MCP access to Figma data raises abuse risk and favors frontier labs.
At its Config conference in India, Figma announced 20 new model context protocol partners, including Linear, Notion, Mistral, JetBrains’ Junie, and Sarvam Agents. Co-founder Dylan Field said Figma wants an open ecosystem but does not view MCP as a perfect protocol. He argued it advantages frontier labs and that exposing more Figma data increases the chance of abuse. Figma later said it plans to support the open-source tool Pi.
- Other named partners include Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Meta Muse, and OpenCode.
- Field criticized Anthropic for not exposing artifacts and other cloud resources via MCP.
- Figma said it plans to support the open-source tool Pi.
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