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Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

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Post by dannote »

I'm Dan, and I built a CLI that lets AI agents design in Figma.

What it does: 100 commands to create shapes, text, frames, components, modify styles, export assets. JSX importing that's ~100x faster than any plugin API import. Works with any LLM coding assistant.

Why I built it: The official Figma MCP server can only read files. I wanted AI to actually design — create buttons, build layouts, generate entire component systems. Existing solutions were either read-only or required verbose JSON schemas that burn through tokens.

Demo (45 sec): https://youtu.be/9eSYVZRle7o

Tech stack: Bun + Citty for CLI, Elysia WebSocket proxy, Figma plugin. The render command connects to Figma's internal multiplayer protocol via Chrome DevTools for extra performance when dealing with large groups of objects.

Try it: bun install -g @dannote/figma-use

Looking for feedback on CLI ergonomics, missing commands, and whether the JSX syntax feels natural.

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Re: Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

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Post by _pdp_ »

falloutx wrote: post #4

I like how MCP is not shoved into our face anymore after people realised more mcp servers eat into context and agents can easily use CLI tools.

I fully agree with the comment but CLI tools don't do auth and session management in a consistent way. Besides, imagine if now every vendor out there need to distributed custom binaries for their services. Some of them do. Many don't.. but overall it is just increased security risk for the end user when the functionality that is delivered is simply an interface to an API.

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Post by conception »

_pdp_ wrote: post #6
falloutx wrote: post #4

I like how MCP is not shoved into our face anymore after people realised more mcp servers eat into context and agents can easily use CLI tools.

I fully agree with the comment but CLI tools don't do auth and session management in a consistent way. Besides, imagine if now every vendor out there need to distributed custom binaries for their services. Some of them do. Many don't.. but overall it is just increased security risk for the end user when the functionality that is delivered is simply an interface to an API.

MCP tools do not do auth and session management in a consistent way based on just the seven or so I use regularly.

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Post by Mic92 »

_pdp_ wrote: post #6
falloutx wrote: post #4

I like how MCP is not shoved into our face anymore after people realised more mcp servers eat into context and agents can easily use CLI tools.

I fully agree with the comment but CLI tools don't do auth and session management in a consistent way. Besides, imagine if now every vendor out there need to distributed custom binaries for their services. Some of them do. Many don't.. but overall it is just increased security risk for the end user when the functionality that is delivered is simply an interface to an API.

I remember that a llm agents often store those in clear text files (I think claude-code beeing one of them). Many of the CLIs I use have a better secret hygiene than that i.e. allow passwords commands or use secret apis.
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