figma-expert-workflows

figma-expert-workflows is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from plugin87/full-stack-design-skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (3,174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to advanced Figma workflows for design systems and collaborative interface design. Figma is a shared design tool; the guide covers components, variables, design tokens, prototypes, file organization, and developer handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating and organizing Figma components, variables, tokens, prototypes, pages, and instances; improving collaboration; syncing design tokens with code; and preparing designs for developers.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep shared designs organized and consistent while connecting design decisions with code. Clear structure and naming make collaboration and handoff easier.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plugin87/full-stack-design-skills/figma-expert-workflows
Any agent
npx skills add plugin87/full-stack-design-skills --skill figma-expert-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plugin87/full-stack-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,174 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00122 $0.03174
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01587
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00635
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00317

Measured 3d ago against content hash c4087e84d565, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figma-expert-workflows scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/figma-expert-workflows/SKILL.md · 443 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 443 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Figma Expert Workflows

Advanced techniques and workflows for professional design and design system work in Figma.

Figma is the industry-standard design tool for UX/UI designers and design system architects. Mastering Figma's advanced features—components, variables, tokens, prototyping, and handoff—is essential for efficient, scalable design workflows.

Core Concepts: Files, Pages, Frames, Components

File Organization

A well-organized Figma file is the foundation of efficient collaboration.

Structure:

Project File
├── Cover Page (overview, links, guidelines)
├── Design System (tokens, colors, typography)
├── Components (Button, Card, Modal, etc.)
├── Patterns (Forms, Lists, Navigation)
├── Prototypes (High-fidelity interactive mockups)
├── Pages by Feature (Auth, Dashboard, Settings, etc.)
└── Archive (Old versions, experiments)

Best practices:

  • One file per product/section (not one massive file)
  • Use clear naming (PascalCase for components, kebab-case for instances)
  • Lock shared components (prevent accidental edits)
  • Use boards to organize pages (Figma feature)
  • Archive old versions (don't delete)

Components vs. Instances

Component: The "source of truth" — the original design. Instance: A copy that inherits properties from the component.

When you edit a component, all instances update automatically. This is the power of components.

Example:

Component: Button (primary, secondary, ghost variants)
├── Instance in Design A (used in 5 places)
├── Instance in Design B (used in 3 places)
└── Instance in Design C (used in 2 places)

Edit component → All 10 instances update

Main Components vs. Copies

In Figma, there's a difference:

  • Main component (original, has ◆ icon) — is the source
  • Instance (copy, has ◊ icon) — inherits from main
  • Regular copy (no icon) — independent copy, won't update

Always use instances, not regular copies.


Advanced Components: Variants & Auto Layout

Read the full file on GitHub · 443 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 443 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c4087e84d565

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figma-expert-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository plugin87/full-stack-design-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 3,174 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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